Publication Date
4-1-2022
Abstract
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 2022) – “When students decide they want to go into health care, they typically think of two things – a physician or a nurse. However, if you look at what comprises the health care team, it’s allied health professionals making up two-thirds of the team, and that’s a wide description of everybody else besides nurses or physicians,” says Dr. Don Samples, dean of the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences at East Tennessee State University.
“It’s the physical therapists, the occupational therapists, the speech-language pathologists, the respiratory therapists, the radiographers, the nutritionists and social workers,” he said. “All those are academic programs we have in this college from which our graduates are working in both the acute care setting, which is the hospitals, and long-term care settings, such as nursing homes and rehab centers.”
His college provides a degree pathway to many of those professions, including allied health, dental hygiene, radiologic science, social work, and prosthetics and orthotics. Certificate programs are available in computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and sport nutrition.
Document Type
News Article
