Exploring health and medical careers.

Exploring health and medical careers. LifeWorks is one of the educational resources from the Office ofScience Education of the National Institutes of Health (NIH "Not invented here." See digispeak. NIH - The United States National Institutes of Health. ). Accordingto according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. NIH, the interactive Web site is designed for middle and high schoolstudents and those helping them make decisions about their future, suchas guidance counselors guidance counselorChild psychology A school worker trained to screen, evaluate and advise students on career and academic matters , teachers, mentors and parents. Offering career exploration for health and medical sciencescareers, LifeWorks provides more than 100 descriptions of careers in thefield that can be accessed by title, education required, interest areaor median salary. Noting that postsecondary education planning should begin as earlyas the eighth grade, the LifeWorks Web site offers an introduction aswell as a guide for grades eight through 12 to help students plan for afuture career in the health field. Also included at the LifeWorks Web site are success stories, suchas the recent one from a "real medical assistant" who sharedher reasons for becoming a medical assistant and the satisfaction shegot from her career. Accompanying ac��com��pa��ny?v. ac��com��pa��nied, ac��com��pa��ny��ing, ac��com��pa��niesv.tr.1. To be or go with as a companion.2. the success story was a description ofthe activities performed by a medical assistant and the minimumeducational requirements. According to its Web site, LifeWorks "promotes awareness ofthe wide variety of occupations in health and medical sciences and therange of opportunities at different education levels." The successstories are intended to complement the factual career data and helpillustrate "the variety of real-life real-life?adj.Actually happening or having happened; not fictional: a documentary with footage of real-life police chases.career pathways, from thecarefully planned to the unpredictable." For more information, visitwww.science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf.