4. Occupational Therapy
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About this program:
“Occupational Therapy is a program that trains future therapists in using occupations or daily activities in a therapeutic manner. When a person has difficulty in doing a portion of an activity or is unable to perform an activity due to injuries, mental illnesses, developmental disorders and other conditions, we step in to train them in doing these activities given the conditions that they have. For us to give our clients appropriate interventions given their presentations, we have backgrounds in anatomy, physiology, pathology and psychology as well. We also study how an environment affects a person’s performance in certain activities, how their mental health (motivation, self-esteem, cognition) affects them.”
Job Opportunities:
“Occupational therapists can go into many different areas of specialization such as neonatal and pediatrics, geriatrics, transitional/pre-vocational training, work rehabilitation, community-based rehabilitation, mental health, and research and academe. OTs can work in schools to assist students who need additional accommodations, mental health facilities to aid clients in reintegrating themselves into their community.”
Source: Alexia, 4th year Occupational Therapy student
This course is offered at: De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, University of the Philippines Manila, etc.
3. Industrial Pharmacy
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About this program:
“IP is a 5-year program that aims to produce graduates with the necessary competencies needed in the pharmaceutical industry. Students are trained in drug discovery, manufacturing, quality assurance, pharmaceutical engineering, pharmaceutical product development and validation of pharmaceutical processes.
We have classes where we act as our own independent pharmaceutical company, we make up our own company name, logo, brand name, and packaging. We make our own protocols, and assign each other roles in our company. Then we manufacture, test and package the products. I feel like I am equipped with everything I need to start my own manufacturing company because we are also trained in management, marketing, and production planning and inventory control.”
Job Opportunities:
“Industrial pharmacists are protectors of public health as guardians of the quality and safety of medications. Anywhere that involves medicines, really. Research, manufacturing, and quality assurance.”
Source: Joelle, 5th year Industrial Pharmacy student
This course is offered at: University of the Philippines Manila and Adamson University (BS Clinical Pharmacy)
2. Public Health
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About this program:
“Public health is more focused on prevention rather than cure. We look into different factors that may lead to these diseases – which may either be microbiological, parasitological, environmental, nutritional, and the like. Once various factors have been identified, we try to verify if these are indeed the actual causes or contributors to the disease. A public health practitioner would look at risk factors that predispose people to certain diseases, then create interventions in order to prevent the occurrence of these diseases.
It can (and should) be put into practice by different professionals because of how all of them can contribute in preventing diseases in their own way. Rather than the individual level, BSPH looks into the larger scale – that is the community.”
Job Opportunities:
Public health is so broad, you can be a microbiologist, you can be in nutrition, or in epidemiology, and biostatistics. Common job opportunities would be to be involved in health-related researches to identify risk factors for certain health outcomes, conducting health programs, whether it be for the development of new technologies such as improved diagnostic tests or development of vaccines. Eventually, these researches may be translated into health policies that would be able to reach a larger scale.”
Source: Sophia, BS Public Health graduate
This course is offered at: Cagayan State University – Andrews Campus, University of the Philippines (Manila & Visayas), etc.
*Most schools offer this course as a Master’s Degree
1. Organizational Communication
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About this program:
“We study the communication processes that concern external and internal stakeholders of organizations. Given this, this spans internal communications (like management, human resources, among others) and external communications (public relations, advertising, to an extent, marketing) in various organizational contexts (NGOs, corporations, bureaucratic institutions).
It’s needed everywhere – whether you want to work in a corporation (the most apparent option for most of its graduates), the government, NGOs, or mass orgs even. Regardless also of what field you want to venture into and master, OrCom helps you a lot. I have friends in med school, and OrCom helped them a lot in terms of patient and health communication. I know people who are in law school now, and OrCom helped them in their recitations and mock trials since we have a ton of units in research, public speaking, and argumentation.”
Job Opportunities:
“Common fields graduates thrive in are communication/business-related, like marketing, advertising, PR, management. But I think it also is a great foundation for when you want to venture into broadcasting and the media industry, the academe, research and policy-making, and law even.”
Source: Angela, BA Organizational Communication graduate
This course is offered at: De La Salle University Manila, University of the Philippines Manila, etc.
*course titles may vary per school
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