Career Exploration and Development
Medical, Global Health and STEM
The analytic skills and interdisciplinary understanding of health you’ve developed at Oberlin combined with the Obie passion for making a positive impact position you well to pursue medical, public health, and global health careers.
Electroencephalogram is used in a variety of ways in the cognitive sciences to examine the structures and processes that underlie a creature’s ability to think and reason. Here a student adjusts an EEG cap before conducting an assessment.
Photo credit: Jennifer Manna
Possible Paths
Some of the many possible opportunities within this sector are:
Medical
- Physician
- Nurse
- Therapist
- Pharmacist
- Dentist
- Veterinarian
- Midwife
- Physician Assistant
- Optometrist
- Clinical psychologist
- Licensed counselor
Public Health
- Health educator
- Community health worker
- Occupational health and safety specialist
- Public health nurse
- Public health analyst
- Emergency management specialist
- Epidemiologist
- Health researcher
- Medical social worker
Global Health
- Field consultant
- Program evaluator
- Refugee health organizations
- International, governmental or non-governmental health organizations
- Organization development specialist
- Disaster relief specialist
- Policy analyst
- Aid worker
- Pharmaceutical sales and marketing
- Epidemiologist
- Research design, administration, and grants management
Medical, Global Health and STEM Jobs & Internships
Below is a sampling of jobs and internships currently posted for Obies. Log in to Handshake to explore all of the available opportunities.
Science Resources
Below are some of the resources we recommend for funding medicine-related scientific projects and finding new opportunities, including technical laboratory positions.