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What can I do with a bachelor's degree in healthcare services and sciences from Western?
Learn basics like anatomy, medical terminology and ethics as well as specifics like health literacy, patient communication and service delivery with a bachelor's in healthcare services and sciences from Western. You'll be prepared to work with patients from all backgrounds and have deep understanding about the business, legal and budget issues specific to health care. You'll also have a strong foundation to continue your studies in medicine, dentistry and physical therapy.
Recent WMU graduates with degrees in healthcare services and sciences are working as:
- Behavioral health directors
- Social services directors
- Clinical research specialists
- Healthcare managers
- Business intelligence analysts
- Lab technicians
- Patient care assistants
The organizations they work for include:
- American Foundation for the Blind
- MillerKnoll
- Corewell Health
- Henry Ford Health System
- Perrigo
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- Geisinger
What's the curriculum?
With a healthcare services and sciences degree, you'll get critical skills to work in health care and and find in-depth study of the delivery and organization of health services, safety practices, health disparities, health informatics and more. You can also prepare for graduate school by focusing your bachelor's degree on any of our three concentrations: blindness and low vision studies, occupational therapy and physician assistant.
WMU also offers a long-term care administration minor, which prepares you to take the Michigan Nursing Home Administrator licensing exam.
![WMU speech therapist and professor Heidi Douglas-Vogley works with news anchor for WWMT-TV Channel 3 Andy Dominianni in the Unified Clinics at WMU. Andy’s diagnosis of Spasmodic Dysphonia is one of many disorders that receive treatment through the Voice, Swallowing, Respiration and Resonance Clinical Laboratory.](https://files.wmich.edu/s3fs-public/styles/3_2/public/images/u171/2023/clinicals.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=U1iO1L5U)
Specialized knowledge
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Capstone experience
Healthcare services and sciences resources and experiences
![Students listening to a professor in a health lab.](https://files.wmich.edu/s3fs-public/styles/hero_12_5/public/images/u171/2023/CHHS_classroom.jpg?h=993b43e0&itok=tn7wEXGp)