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Medical Health

Ambulance driver

Description

Ambulance drivers operate ambulances to transport seriously ill or injured people from their homes or accident sites to hospitals. They also transfer non-emergency and elderly patients from one location to another and may assist the EMTs with moving patients on stretchers.

Mandatory subjects

English
Mathematics
Biology

Audiologist

Description

Also known as ear specialists, audiologists are medical professionals who assist people with ear-related issues. Audiologists usually work in a health-care facility to identify, assess, and treat various hearing problems.

Mandatory subjects

English
Mathematics
Biology

Clinical technologist

Description

Clinical technologists perform clinical investigative procedures as well as corrective and therapeutic procedures on patients, in collaboration with medical practitioners. They make use of electro-physiological equipment and other appropriate apparatus and techniques

Mandatory subjects

English
Math
Physical Sciences

EEG technician

Description

EEG technologists are responsible for operating and monitoring the equipment used to record brain activity. They use this information to diagnose conditions like epilepsy, sleep disorders, and other neurological problems. EEG technicians must be highly trained in both electronics and medical science. They must know how to properly apply electrodes to a patient’s head, interpret data from various sensors, and ensure that all of the equipment is functioning properly at all times.

Mandatory subjects

None

Health advisor

Description

A health advisor is a medical expert who specializes in developing various health programs and projects to provide patients with optimal healthcare services. They are primarily in charge of helping patients navigate and understand the healthcare system.

Mandatory subjects

English
Math
Physical Sciences

Hospice worker

Description

Hospice nurses are registered nurses who care for terminally ill patients. They develop care plans for individual patients, monitor patients' conditions, and provide guidance and support to patients and their families. They work in private homes, residential care facilities, nursing centers, and other hospice care environments.

Mandatory subjects

English
Maths Literacy
Physical Sciences/ Life Sciences
Life Orientation

Angiographer

Description

An angiographer uses specialised instruments to perform angiographs. These are used to diagnose or investigate several problems affecting blood vessels

Mandatory subjects

Mathematics, Physical Sciences

Audiometrist

Description

Audiometrists administer and evaluate audiometric screening and tests under the supervision of an audiologist to test the patients hearing ability.

Mandatory subjects

English
Math
Physical Sciences

Dialysis technician

Description

Dialysis technicians are medical specialists trained in the operation of a dialysis machine. Their primary duties include monitoring patients undergoing dialysis treatment, ensuring usage of the machine is safe and secure, and adjusting patient fluid removal rates as required.

Mandatory subjects

Mathematics
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences

Echo cardiologist

Description

This position is accountable for accurately, safely and efficiently performing routine echocardiographic and congenital procedures with competency, including assisting in transesophageal, epicardial and intracardiac echocardiographic procedures in outpatient, inpatient, cath lab and operative environments.

Mandatory subjects

English
Math
Physical Sciences

Health inspector

Description

Public health inspectors look for health and safety hazards in restaurants, public facilities, factories or other types of workplaces.

Mandatory subjects

None

Hospital porter

Description

Hospital porters are responsible for the moving of patients on stretchers, trolleys, beds and wheelchairs between different locations in the hospital. Patients need to be moved from the ambulance into the hospital and between the wards operating theatres, delivery rooms and the X-ray section.

Mandatory subjects

None

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