This week’s ArkansasHealthCareers.com video is a profile of Lorraine Frierson. She is the Clinical Lab Director at AHEC South Arkansas in El Dorado, AR. In the video she tells us all about working in a clinical laboratory.

The Medical Lab Technicians and other lab staff are responsible for obtaining a variety of body fluid samples, analyzing those samples, and delivering results to physicians and nurses. As Lorraine sees it, the lab staff members serve as critical liaisons between patients and healthcare providers. Without accurate testing of body fluids, a physician cannot properly di…

ArkansasHealthCareers.com is pleased to announce the addition of an interactive online version of our Arkansas Health Careers Guide, which has previously only existed as a static document either for print or download. Now you can go to the Arkansas Health Careers Explorer and browse details on over 70 different healthcare-related careers.

Each career profile contains a brief description of the career, the amount of education required for the career, personality types that are likely to enjoy the career, along with common tasks performed by those who practice the career. Please take so…

With so many careers in health care to choose from, the task of selecting the right one for you can be daunting. Thankfully, the Arkansas AHEC Program, in conjunction with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has developed a comprehensive guide to help you do just that. The Arkansas Health Careers Guide is a pdf document detailing over 60 different professions in the medical field. You can go through this publication at your own pace to find a health-related career that matches your interests.

The document also highlights educational facilities around the state of Arkansas at whi…