A Healthy Back-to-School Recipe for Success: 4 Foolproof Tips for Going in Strong!
Starting school is always a little bumpy, but as a healthcare student, you have an advantage over your peers: you already know how important it is to prioritize your health, both physical and mental. Here are 4 healthy back-to-school tips written for students, by students, for going in strong! 1. Learn about your learning style. […]
Man’s Best Friend Could Get a Healthcare Job: Blood Sugar Monitor
As a veterinary assistant, you might find yourself caring for a pooch who’s more than just a pet: he might actually be about to get a healthcare job! We’re not talking about seeing-eye dogs, although they do tremendous work and make worlds of difference for the visually impaired. Actually, in a recent NPR story called […]
4 Exciting Healthcare Startups People in Healthcare Careers Should Know About
After the tech sector, the healthcare industry is growing faster than any other part of the U.S. economy. But 2016 has been a landmark year for teamwork between these two sectors: increasingly, healthcare startups are creating new technology to help move healthcare into the future, drawing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors. Here are […]
Here’s How CA Leads Cancer Care: Groundbreaking Cancer Reporting in California
In his last State of the Union Address, President Obama highlighted VP Joe Biden’s decision to forego the 2016 Democratic nomination in favor of working to “make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.” Since then, the plan has often been called a “moonshot to cure cancer” – an effort as ambitious […]
#ChoosePT in California: Healing the Pain of the Opioid Epidemic
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, about 20,000 Americans are killed every year by prescription painkillers. These deaths are almost always overdoses on prescription opioids such as oxycodone and fentanyl (the drug that killed Prince). But unfortunately, that number is deceptively small. Many more deaths stack on top of those as a result […]
The Teamwork of Surgery: How Surgical Technologists Make a Difference
How surgical technologists make a difference isn’t always obvious at first glance: sure, you see them passing implements and helping physicians scrub in, but outside of medical TV shows, most people don’t know much about what surgical technologists do. In fact, the most important skill for a surgical technologist is teamwork. Much of contemporary surgical […]
How Medical Assistants Save Lives Every Day
Since medical assistants don’t have the same medical education that physicians do, it can be hard to see how medical assistants save lives. But although it can be relatively easy to become a good medical assistant, a good medical assistant is not easy to replace! Folk wisdom tells us that one of a doctor’s toughest […]
4 Personality Types for a Medical Biller & Coder
Since it seems like a niche occupation, it might not be easy to see how people with different personality types might be suited to becoming a medical biller & coder. But a medical biller & coder can enjoy a lifestyle that compatible with many different personality types. Here are a few we’ve noticed around campus […]
Pharmacy Technician Careers: 1500 BC to Present
Did you know that pharmacy technician careers are some of the oldest jobs in the history of civilization? In fact, as far back as 1500 BC, ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets (among the earliest samples of written language) recorded prescriptions for various herbs (and sometimes religious rituals). Back then, pharmacy technician careers were probably pretty low-tech, […]
Should I Get a Veterinary Assistant Certificate in CA?
Outside of the obvious benefit of working as a vet assistant (if you’re like most veterinary assistants, you’ll be in love with your job and the animals you get to work with), you might be asking, “Should I get a veterinary assistant certificate in CA? After all, I don’t need a certificate to work as […]