06 Oct 2020

If you’re interested in a career in medicine but would rather not follow the beaten track, here are five red hot careers that you probably haven’t thought of but are expanding and changing every day!

The best part is, none of these careers have to include studying a traditional six year medicine degree… Sweet relief!

1. Nutritional Medicine

As they say, you are what you eat. But how?

Nutritional medicine is a holistic approach to the interactions of both nutrition and environment on human health. The catch is, every human is different, with unique biochemistry, metabolism, anatomy and genetics.

Clinical Nutritionists integrate traditional food wisdom and current scientific evidence to guide and support individuals and communities find the correct balance of foods, vitamins and minerals we need to remain healthy.

The Undergraduate Certificate in Building Health Through Nutrition at Endeavour College allows students to obtain a comprehensive understanding of human nutrition and introduces students to food-based science, including food spoilage, food additives, and natural toxins. The best thing about certificates at Endeavour is that they only take six months to complete if you study fulltime, completely online. Ummm sign me up!

2. Remedial Massage

You may be asking, what the heck is remedial massage?? Well! It is a branch of manual medicine that focuses on improving a clients’ movement, pain management, injury prevention and performance. When you become a qualified remedial massage therapist, a range of career opportunities are available to you. These include managing your own business, working within health retreats and spas, providing massage services to elite athletes, working in corporate health and more.

If that tickles your fancy, studying a Diploma of Remedial Massage at Endeavour College of Natural Health may be the perfect way to go! Student’s at Endeavour College are some of the most prepared in Australia to enter clinical practice… For example, through your Diploma of Remedial Massage this course enables you to register to become a registered health provider and opens the door to a wide range of career options – both Australia-wide and globally.

Bachelor degrees at Endeavour leave students career ready in a world that is constantly changing and shifting. I mean, Telehealth, is something that expanded especially this year as isolation made it difficult to have appointments IRL!

3. Kinesiology

Australians spend over $1 billion annually on therapies not part of mainstream medicine and kinesiology is one of them. Originating in the 1970’s and fusing Western techniques and Eastern wisdom, kinesiologists monitor muscles to access information about a persons’ wellbeing.

This holistic approach promotes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, and using principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, kinesiology looks at what is beyond the symptoms. Pretty unreal huh?

4. Naturopathy

Naturopathy combines theory and practice to support healing and maintain health. Naturopaths aim to treat the underlying causes of illness and disease. The core principle of “healing through nature” guides the naturopath’s use of nutrition, dietary counselling, herbal medicine, manual therapies, flower essences, lifestyle education and homeopathy.

By studying the four year Bachelor of Health Science (Naturopathy) at Endeavour College, you would experience a holistic learning environment, broadening your studies across biological sciences in order to understand the human body and its functions.

Whether you could see yourself working in private practices, managing your own business, working in a day spa, retreat, health food store or a pharmacy or anything else in this ever-growing career, Endeavour College teaches you social sciences including psychology and counselling, nutrition and dietary planning, botany and herbal medicine studies, diagnostic techniques and clinical skills and extensive clinical practice.

5. Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been around for thousands of years. Its core belief is that everyone's body has natural healing abilities but sometimes it needs some outside help to achieve balance. In Australia, this holistic approach to health has surged in popularity and some practices include acupuncture, tai chi and herbal products to address health problems.

The most common path to take in Chinese Medicine is to enter private practice as a primary practitioner. You could also undertake Chinese medicine research, become involved in education, product development, management and sales roles in pharmaceutical and herbal companies, provide healthcare advice and consultancy online, and some may practice in hospitals, community health centres, and other healthcare agencies. 

So, don’t hesitate to suss out more about Endeavour College here to find more courses in medicine that you may not have thought of! They are also running a Virtual Open Day on the 21st of October so pop that in your calendar!

If all of these careers sound pretty red hot but you’re still not sure exactly where you want to fit into the world of medicine, feel free to suss out our post-school plan here! With q’s that’ll dig deep into your talents, values, interests and personality, you’ll figure out some jobs that would suit you perfectly. Oh and, the planner doesn’t end there though. It’ll also give you all the hot goss on how to get to your chosen career path, like what qualifications or experience you’d need and what skillset you’d want to have. Big yeehaw! Check out the post-school plan here!