How to choose online courses to prepare for wellness jobs
Health & Wellness degrees are recommended for anyone who wants to work with patients in hospitals, clinics, and physical therapy centers. Or maybe you’re pursuing Health & Wellness as part of your pre-med studies. Wisconsin students who want to start learning about health and wellness can begin with eAchieve Academy’s online charter classes for FREE.
Our classes cover all the major fields needed for your degree: science, math, anatomy, and biology. Whether you’re going to be a physical training or you’re planning on going to medical school, prepare now with free high school classes from eAchieve.
Preparing For Your Career
At eAchieve, we use career-planning resources to help our students meet their academic and service-learning goals before graduation. Whatever your dreams, we’ll do whatever we can to get you on the fast track of making it a reality.
Additionally, eAchieve Academy has electives to maximize your transcript for college admission. Our optional classes cover art, cooking, and musical instruments. These classes are a fun opportunity to learn new things. And you can meet service learning requirements by volunteering at a hospital or doctor’s clinic.
Program Admissions Process
The first step of a health and wellness careers is getting into a good college. You can go to a four-year university and receive a bachelor’s degree in Arts or Sciences. Or you can go for a Master’s of Education in Health and Wellness. There are plenty of options! eAchieve Academy graduates have been accepted into colleges and universities all over the globe. Our counselors will help you find the right school for your degree plan.
If you’re taking Health & Wellness as your pre-med degree, you will have to take the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) in order to gain admission to medical school. Cover the basics of the exam while you’re still in high school with eAchieve’s classes.
Recommended Classes For Health & Wellness
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Health and Wellness professionals need to understand the basics of the human body. Health and PE classes from eAchieve cover nutrition and general fitness.
Intro to Fitness and Fitness Fundamentals are recommended for students who want to teach sports or become physical trainers. Through these classes you’ll learn the 5 Fitness Components, FITT principles, and the benefits of proper exercise technique.
Those hoping to use their skills in medical professions will benefit from Health and Nutrition & Wellness. These classes are each one semester and available to high school students at any grade level.
You need 1 credit of Health and PE to graduate from eAchieve.
Science Courses
nyone working around patients must understand the relationship between anatomy, physiology, biology and chemistry. eAchieve has introductory and advanced high school science classes ideal for Health & Wellness.
Anatomy and Physiology class goes over all the basics of the human body. There are two prerequisites: Biology and Chemistry. Introductory Biology is available for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade while Chemistry classes are limited to grades 10-12. Chemistry has one prerequisite, Algebra 1. With all these prerequisites, it’s important to start planning to take Anatomy and Physiology as early as possible.
Math Courses
Math plays an important part in health and wellness jobs. You’ll need to understand patient charts, medical measurements, and more. Math like statistics and algebra all come up in health-related careers.
Future pre-med students may want AP Calculus AB/BC since most medical schools require some level of calculus for admission.
English Courses
Most Health and Wellness jobs include a lot of direct patient interaction. Whether you’re writing out exercise routines or submitting to a medical journal, your writing must be understandable. English classes from eAchieve teach writing and reading comprehension.
World Language Courses
Knowing multiple languages can really expand your job opportunities. Many healthcare facilities need bilingual or trilingual staff to communicate with ESL patients. eAchieve has world language courses in Spanish, French, and German. We start with beginners and go up through to AP.
Social Studies Courses
Social Studies teach students about history and how the world works. Community-based Health & Wellness jobs often focus on very local issues. Take Social Studies online to learn about the impact of the past on the present.
Family & Consumer Science Courses
Learning about food preparation and culinary techniques provides crucial understanding of how food and health are intertwined. Studying child development and life skills will help you develop insight, management and decision-making skills needed in many health and wellness industry jobs. Classes in fashion and interior design convey important concepts related to design principles and psychological wellness.
Art Courses
Online art classes can help you prepare for a career as an art therapist working with children, adults, people with autism, or people with disabilities.
Music Courses
Music therapy is an established health profession. Helping individuals address various challenges by developing a therapeutic relationship with music can be a rewarding career choice for the musically inclined.
Types of Health & Wellness Careers
General Health & Wellness
- Nutritionist
- Dietician
- Orthotic and prosthetic
- Speech-language pathologist
- Health services manager
- Occupational therapist
- Massage therapist
- Health teacher
- Coach
- OSHA inspector or trainer
- Community health service specialist
- Case manager
- Therapist
- Art therapist
- Music therapist
- Outreach coordinator
Psychology
- Psychologist
- Psychiatrist
- Therapist
- Clinician
- Counselor
- Psychiatric technician (Psy Tech)
- Human resources
- Social worker
- Criminal justice/forensic psychologist
- Industrial and organization (I-O) psychologist
- Sports psychologist
- Art therapist
Physical Therapy
- Physical therapist
- Coach and athletic trainers
- Occupational therapist
- Orthotic and prosthetic trainers
- Midwife
- Chiropractors
The Benefits of Working in Health & Wellness
Enjoyable Career
Enjoyable Career
Careers in health and wellness can be very rewarding and can leave you feeling accomplished when you are able to help someone in a time of need.
Numerous Specializations
Numerous Specializations
Careers in health and wellness are unique in that there are many specialization paths you can choose. You are able to explore and find a specialization suited to you.
Stability & High Earnings
Stability & High Earnings
Working in the health and wellness field can give you the financial stability you want when you achieve all of the technical skills needed to grow in the field.
Help Your Community
Help Your Community
Health and wellness careers are unique in that you can use your knowledge outside of work to help make a difference for members in your community by spreading your expertise.
Always Evolving & Growing
Always Evolving & Growing
The health and wellness career field is always evolving and changing with advances in technology and medicine. These jobs will keep you on your toes.
Personal Growth
Personal Growth
Health and wellness careers are also unique in that you can learn a lot about yourself when helping others in careers such as psychology and coaching.
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