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Types of Providers
There are many different types of health services providers, such as primary care providers,
nurses, specialists, and pharmacists.
Primary care providers include:
Generalists, such as medical doctors (MD) and doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO), who focus on
family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics
Additional Activities
Director of Health Care Services Role Play
In this lesson, we learned about all of the different medical needs of a population of people and
the providers of medical care in an organized health care system. In this lesson extension, you are
going to role play as a a director of health care services. Let's look at several medical-based
scenarios.
Scenarios
A child has a fever and has red, itchy bumps on the skin and lacks an appetite.
A child has been playing in the grass and is sneezing.
A 75 year old male slipped in the kitchen and hit his head on the edge of the counter. He has a
gash in his head and is bleeding a lot.
A 20 year old female has stopped eating and has been stealing things to get money to purchase
illegal drugs.
A 40 year old male is 50 pounds overweight and wishes to lose weight.
A pregnant woman is about 6 weeks away from the baby's due date. She is experiencing
contractions and pain in her legs.
Instructions
Pretend you work for a medical advice phone line. On the first hour of your shift, you receive a call
for each of the scenarios above. Direct them to the type of medical care they need and what
medical professional they would need to provide treatment. For example, if a child has a earache
with a fever you would suggest they visit a medical care facility and see a pediatric MD or DO.
Refer back to the lesson for the lists of types of services and types of providers that will fit the
needs of the patients.