M A P E H 10

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Health – Grade 10
Quarter 4 – Module 4: Planning for a Health Career

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 M A P E H 10
Quarter 4
Self-Learning Module 4

Planning for a Health Career

Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Health 10 Self-Learning Module on Planning for a Health Career.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and
reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Health Self-Learning Module on Planning for a Health Career.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATION

In this module, the learners are expected to:

enumerate the different health care practitioners, health care providers, and
allied health professionals;
appreciate the benefits of having a familiarity in a different health care services, and
health care providers in our country;
determine the specific health care practitioner/ provider in a specific illness or
even diseases.

PRE–TEST
Matching Type
Direction: Match column A with the correct answer on Column B. Write the letter on the space
provided.
. Column A Column B
______ 1. Identifies and rehabilitates hearing a. Paramedics
impairments b. Pharmacist
______ 2. It performs a variety of tasks on c. Radiation Therapist
body fluids d. Audiologist
_____ 3. Gives emergency medical treatment e. Medical Technologist
_____ 4. Administers radiation therapy services
to patients
_____ 5. Prepares and dispenses medication
prescribed by the Physician

RECAP
True or False
Direction: Write T if the statement is correct while F if it is incorrect.
1. Diagnosis is the analysis based on sign and symptoms.
2. Prevention is better than to cure.
3. Allied health professionals are healthcare practitioners without formal education and
clinical training credentials through certification.
4. Treatment is the management and care of a patient or the combating of disease or
disorder.
5. Education is not the process of sharing and gaining knowledge.
 LESSON

Health Care Provider- a person who helps identify, prevent, or treat an,
illness or disability

Health Care Practitioner/ Provider- an independent healthcare provider who is

licensed to practice on and provide general and/or specialized care to a specific area of the
body.

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.

What are the allied health professions that we presently have in the Philippines?

These are the common allied health professionals practicing in the country with available
education and professional training.

1. Audiologist – identifies and rehabilitates hearing impairments and related

disorders
2. Chiropractor - diagnoses and treats neuromuscular disorders, with emphasis on
treatment through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine.
3. Clinical psychologist - assesses, diagnoses, treats and helps prevent mental
disorders
4. Dietitian / Nutritionist - promotes good health through proper diet and treatment
of diseases
5. Emergency Medical Technician – also known as ambulance technician;
responds quickly to any emergency and life-threatening situation to immediately
treat serious injuries, physical or mental trauma to increase a patient’s chances of
survival
6. Guidance Counselor - assists students with personal, family, education, and
career decisions and concerns; also helps them develop job-finding skills and
other life skills needed to prevent and deal with problems
7. Health Educator - specializes in health education and promotes the development
of health knowledge, life skills, and positive attitudes toward the health and well-
being of students
8. Massage Therapist - performs the scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the
body for the purpose of normalizing those tissues; uses manual techniques that
include applying fixed or movable pressure on affected parts of the body
9. Medical assistant – performs, under the direction of a physician, various routine
administrative and nontechnical clinical tasks in hospitals, clinics, and other similar
facilities
10. Medical technologist – performs a variety of tasks on body fluids, from
simple blood tests to more complex tests to uncover abnormalities in the
 body, and underlying causes of illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and cancer
which are not easily detected through physical examination
11. Midwife - professionals with the expertise and skills in helping women maintain
healthy pregnancies, assist in or perform childbirth delivery, and help in women’s
recovery process through the postpartum period
12. Nurse - trained to provide care for people who are sick or injured; monitors
patients’ health and records symptoms, assists physicians during examinations
and treatment, and administers medications.
13. Occupational therapist - uses purposeful activity and interventions to maximize
the independence and health of any client who is limited by physical injury or
illness, cognitive impairment, psychosocial dysfunction, mental illness, or learning
disability
14. Orthotist / Prosthetist – makes and fits prosthetics or artificial parts for the human
body
15. Paramedic - gives emergency medical treatment or assists medical professionals
in emergency situations
16. Pharmacist - prepares and dispenses medication prescribed by licensed health
professionals; also provides information to patients regarding drugs, and consults
with healthcare professionals on advances in drugs or medicine
17. Radiologic Technologist/Radiographer - healthcare professionals who perform
imaging procedures, such as x-ray examinations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(MRI) scans and Computed Tomography (CT) scans (health careers.org)
18. Physical Therapist - examines, evaluates, and treats physical impairments
through use of special exercise, application of heat or cold, and other physical
modalities
19. Speech Language Pathologist - diagnoses and treats patients with functional
and organic speech defects and disorders
20. Phlebotomist - professionals with special training in phlebotomy or drawing blood
from patients
21. Radiation therapist - administers radiation therapy services to patients and
observes patients during treatment; other duties may include tumor localization,
patient follow-up, patient education, and record keeping
22. Respiratory therapist - specializes in the promotion of optimum cardiopulmonary
function and health; regularly deals with various chronic respiratory diseases, such
as asthma and emphysema
23. Social Worker - investigates, treats, and gives aid to people with social problems
and helps people with mental illness, serious health conditions, financial
difficulties, substance abuse problems, domestic or child abuse, unwanted
pregnancy and other social problems
 ACTIVITY
Multiple Choice:
Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer at the space provided.
______ 1. The one who diagnoses and treats neuromuscular disorders.
( a. audiologist b. medical technologist c. nurse d. non of the above )
______ 2. It is the one who guided students with personal, family, education,
and career decisions and concerns.
( a. guidance counselor b. dietitian c. audiologist c. nurse d. pharmacist )
_____ 3. The assistant of the Physician at medical clinics and hospitals.
( a. medical technologist b. pharmacist c. social worker d. nurse )
_____ 4. Concern on the right foods that we should eat.
( a. dietitian b. paramedics c. physical therapist d. all of the above )
_____ 5. Medical practitioner whose expertise is making external human body parts.
( a. physical therapist b. audiologist c. orthotist / prosthetist d. occupational
therapist )

WRAP – UP

"What I want to be?”

If you are given a chance to be an health care provider or allied health professional
choose two ( 2 ) from them and write a short explanation why did you choose it.
 VALUING

“ My point of view ! “

Write a short statement on the importance of having a knowledge on the different health
practitioners / providers, and allied health professionals.

POST TEST
Word Hunt

Find the different Health Practitioners and Allied Professionals by highlighting and write your answer
on the space provided below.

R A D I O L O G I S T E A E T A R E
A N Y T H I N G B I G S C H O O L S
D O I T Y O U R S E L R E V I E W Y
I T A L Y M A N G O E U N D E R D N
A A P D I E T I T I A N K F E E T H
T T I O D R U S T G L O V E F S A F
I I S A D N E S S T C H I L I C C R
O O O T O G E T H E R E G G W A I O
N N N E P R O S B A A A O N D R D N
T A S D R O N E L R P L L I I E I T
H L Y D E I U A I S O T D U M D C L
E L R N T N M B N I O H E R A O S I
R E I E E S B A D O N E N O D T O N
A G N T N U S U R E A D R U G S C E
P E G T D L A G E S C U T I E T I R
I D E A E S T O R E L C A R D O A H
S H O P R U T I D I E T T R I P L E
T H I W A P P R O S B O O A T E W R
C H I R O P R A C T O R T P E V O O
H C E T D O O F T A R E A I S O R E
P A R A M E D I C R N B L D T L K S
C R E D I T C A R D S A P R O V E D
G U I D A N C E C O U N C I L O R F
 KEY TO CORRECTION

Wrap Up: Based on student’s answer.

Valuing: Based on student’s answer.

Post test
 REFERENCES
Print Materials:
Callo, Lualhati F., Mark Kenneth S. Camilling, Johannsen C. Yap, Janeth P. Cagulang, Jose
C. Doria, Encarnita Deveraturda, and Jo – Ann G. Grecia K to 12 Curriculum Guide: Physical
Education and Health 10, Pasig City : Department of Education Bureau of Learning
Resources ( Dep Ed – BLR ) 2013.