What Do Health Specialties Professors Do (including Their Typical Day At Work)

Job Description

Health Specialties Professors teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine. They also prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.

Other tasks include:

• Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Evaluate and grade students’ class work, assignments, and papers.
• Supervise laboratory sessions.
• Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public health, stress management, and work site health promotion.
• Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

We asked Health Specialties Professors how satisfied they are with their job. Here is what they said.

---

83% of them said they were satisfied with their job and 83% said they find that their job makes the world a better place or helps to make someone else’s life better.

Typical Day At Work

On a daily basis, Health Specialties Professors perform administrative duties, such as serving as department head. They maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.

A typical day for a Postsecondary Health Specialties Teacher will also include:

• Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public health, stress management, and work site health promotion.
• Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
• Collaborate with colleagues to address teaching and research issues.
• Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.
• Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

We asked some Health Specialties Professors a few questions to find out what else does their work day look like. Here is what we found.

	Do you have telephone conversations everyday in this job?	69% said yes
	How important is it to work in a team in this job?	69% said very important
	Do you have group discussions everyday in this job?	88% said yes
	Do you talk or work with customers everyday in this job?	45% said yes
	Do you have to deal with angry customers everyday in this job?	0% said yes
	Do you have to make decisions everyday in this job?	33% said yes

Other responsibilities

Besides their typical day, Health Specialties Professors also evaluate and grade students’ class work, assignments, and papers. They may also maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students.

On a weekly to monthly basis, Health Specialties Professors Supervise laboratory sessions. They might also Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.

In addition, they Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.

Although specific duties may vary, many of them Participate in campus and community events.

To some Health Specialties Professors, it is also their responsibility to Serve on academic or administrative committees that deal with institutional policies, departmental matters, and academic issues.

Working life

More than 40 hours per week

Regular schedule like a 9 to 5

In a typical work week as a Postsecondary Health Specialties Teacher, you can expect to work more than 40 hours per week.

Is this right for me

People who are suitable for this job tends to like working with, communicating with, and teaching people. They like helping or providing service to others..

They also like working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. They like searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

You can read more about these career personality types here.

Explore other careers

http://www.bls.gov/OOH/education-training-and-library/postsecondary-teachers.htm

http://www.cgsnet.org/

https://www.acteonline.org/

http://www.teach.org/