MEDICAL AND ALLIED HEALTH

PROFESSION
Medical and Allied Health Professions

 Medical professionals – a group of individuals

qualified to practice medicine.
 Allied health professions – are lines of work that still
deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine.
 Medical and Allied Health
Professionals

 Health Care Provider/Practitioner

 – a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an
illness or disability
– an independent healthcare provider who is licensed
to practice on and provide general and/or specialized
care to a specific area of the body.
 Medical and Allied Health
Professionals

 Allied Health Professionals – a trained healthcare

provider practicing under supervision of a physician
or healthcare practitioner. They include pharmacists,
dental hygienists, physical therapists and nurses.
 Allied health professionals provide services and engage in
activities which include:

A. Prevention – keep illness or injury from happening

B. Assessment/evaluation - appraisal of the condition based
on the patient’s subjective report
C. Identification/diagnosis – analysis based on the signs,
symptoms and laboratory findings
D. Treatment – management and care of a
patient/combating of disease/disorders
E. Rehabilitation/habilitation – treatment designed to
recover from injury, illness or disease
Allied health professionals provide services and
engage in activities which include:

F. Advocacy – a method by which a group of health

professionals work together to develop programs
G. Promotion of health and well-being – the process of
enabling people to increase control over their health and its
determinants
H. Education – the process of sharing and gaining
knowledge
I. Research – diligent inquiry or examination of data,
records, and observations in a search for facts or principles
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Audiologist
– identify and rehabilitate hearing impairments and
related disorders
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Clinical Psychologist
– assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental
disorders
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Dietitian/Nutritionist
– promotes good health through proper diet and
diseases
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Guidance Counselor
– assist in career decisions of students
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Health Educator
– specializes in health education and develops health
knowledge, life skills and well-being of students
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Massage Therapist
– normalize tissues by performing scientific
manipulation
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Medical Assistant
– performs under the direction of physician
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Medical Technologist
– performs various tasks on body fluids from simple
blood tests to more complex tests
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Midwife
– help women maintain healthy pregnancy
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Occupational Therapist
– uses purposeful activity and interventions for patients
who are limited by physical injuries or illnesses
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Paramedic
– gives emergency medical treatment
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Pharmacist
– prepares and dispenses medication prescribed
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer
– performs imaging procedures such as x-ray, MRI, CT
scan
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Physical Therapist
– treats physical impairments
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Speech Language Pathologist

– treats patients with speech defects and disorders
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Phlebotomist
– performs phlebotomy or drawing blood
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Radiation Therapist
– administers radiation therapy and observation of
patients during treatment
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Respiratory Therapist
– promotion of cardiopulmonary health
Allied Health Professionals present in
the Philippines

 Social Worker
– gives aid to people with social problems
 Other allied health professions
available in other countries

 Pedorthist
 – foot orthotic and orthopedic experts
 Other allied health professions
available in other countries

 Exercise physiologist
– body of knowledge concerning physiologic, metabolic
and structural responses to short term and long term
physical activity