Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V, Bicol
Division of City Schools
Sorsogon City

SELD-DIRECTED LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET # 2 IN HEALTH 10

Name: ___________________________________ Grade & Section: ___________________ Quarter 4, Week 2

TOPIC: MEDICAL AND ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION

I. OBJECTIVE:
1. Explores the various medical and allied health professions and selects a particular profession based on
personal competence and interest (H10PC-Ivc-d-3)

II. LESSON DISCUSSION: What are

MEDICAL & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSION Medical & Allied
Along with medical professions, there are hundreds of allied health Health
professions which complete the workforce in contributing to the whole-person care
of patients, support to healthcare professionals, and the efficient operation of Professions?
healthcare organizations.

The Medical Profession is a group of individuals qualified to practice medicine. Allied Health
Professions, on the other hand, are lines of work that still deal with healthcare, but are distinct from medicine.

They have distinct and specialized knowledge and skills that actively work with people accessing health
and disability that are offered services across a range of settings. These professions include clinical laboratory
or medical technology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, dietetic services, medical record personnel,
radiologic services, speech-language pathology and audiology, and respiratory therapy.

Health Care Provider – a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an illness or
disability.
WHO ARE THE Health Care Practitioner/Provider – an independent healthcare provider who is
MEDICAL & ALLIED licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific
HEALTH area of the body.
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 d. Treatment g. Promotion of Health & Well-Being
b. Assessment/Evaluation e. Rehabilitation/Habilitation h. Education
c. Identification/Diagnosis f. Advocacy i. Research

WHAT ARE THE ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS THAT WE PRESENTLY HAVE IN THE PHILIPPINES?
1. AUDIOLOGIST 11. MIDWIFE 21. RADIATION THERAPIST
2. CHIROPRACTOR 12. NURSE 22. RESPIRATORY
THERAPIST
3. CLINICEMERAL PSYCHOLOGIST 13. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST 23. SOCIAL WORKER
4. DIETITIAN / NUTRITIONIST 14. ORTHOTIST/PROSTHETIC
5. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN 15. PARAMEDIC
6. GUIDANCE COUNSELOR 16. PHARMACIST
7. HEALTH EDUCATOR 17. RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGIST/RADIOGRAPHER
8. MASSAGE THERPIST 18. PHYSCIAL THERAPIST
9. MEDICAL ASSISSTANT 19. SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST
10. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST 20. PHLEBOTOMIST
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 ALLIED MEDICAL PROFESSIONS WHOSE SPECIALIZRD muscle strength & function lost due to injury or
TRAINING IS AVAILABLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES disease.
 CARDIOVASCULAR TECHNOLOGIST – uses  NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST – specializes in the
imaging technology to help physicians diagnose diagnosis of conditions affecting the nervous
patients with cardiac (heart) and peripheral system such as neuromuscular diseases,
vascular (blood vessel) ailments. epilepsy, & nerve entrapments.
 CLINICAL OFFICER – performs general medical  MEDICAL DOSIMETRIST – designs treatment
duties such as the diagnosis & treatment of plans for patients by means of computer and/or
disease and injury, recommendation & manual computation to determine a treatment
interpretation of medical tests. field technique that will deliver the prescribed
 DENTAL HYGIENIST – specialized in the radiation dose while taking into consideration
removal of calcaneus deposits and stains from the dose-limiting structures.
patients’ & stains from patents’& provides  MEDICAL RADIATION SCIENTIST – performs
additional services & information on complex diagnostic imaging studies on patients
prevention of oral disease. and plans & administers radiation treatments.
 DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHIST – uses  MUSIC THERAPIST – uses music within a
ultrasonic imaging devices to produce therapeutic relationship to address a client’s
diagnostic images, scans, videos, or 3D volumes needs, such as facilitating movement & physical
of patients’ anatomy. rehabilitation, motivating the client to cope with
 KINESIOTHERAPIST – develops and monitors treatment, providing emotional support, such as
exercise programs to help people regain an outlet for expressing their feelings thru
music.
III. PRACTICE TASK: WORD PUZZLE
Directions: Loop a word from the puzzle. You can look for words downward, upward, diagonal, or horizontal.
Words can be written the natural way or the other way around.
X T M V S W Q N O I T N E V E R P W C Y
L S I P H L E B O T O M I S T R O I T Y
H I G K W R U O K C H B B S W Z D C R T
S G H Y C N E G R E M E Q W T E F N E T
O O B T P K U H T U A F R G M X Z N A L
G L N P R O F E S S I O N A L C I M T P
J O K I N E S I O T H E R A P I S T M I
J I M C U J D W X V F A L K M I H S E P
R D Q U I H V A E R P Q S E I H S D N X
Z U A F G G H T S I C A M R A H P T T G
X A H T Y T U I A A I O D E J K L N F H

IV. EVALUATION
Directions: Fill in the blanks. Write the correct answer to the following statements.
________________________________ 1. An independent healthcare provider who is licensed to practice on and
provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the body.
________________________________ 2. Specializes in the diagnosis of conditions affecting the nervous system
such as neuromuscular diseases, epilepsy, & nerve entrapments.
________________________________ 3. A trained healthcare provider practicing under supervision of a physician
or healthcare practitioner.
________________________________ 4. Develops and monitors exercise programs to help people regain muscle
strength & function lost due to injury or disease.
________________________________ 5. uses music within a therapeutic relationship to address a client’s health
problems.
Note to the teacher: ____________________________________________
Note Writer: ASILA J. PAZ
_____________________________________________________________ SNHS MAPEH Teacher

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