One of the main reasons why the U.S. is experiencing a severe shortage in healthcare workers is the lack of healthcare educators. 

The U.S. Department of Labor predicts that by 2014, the United States will need 4,700,000 new healthcare workers to take care of our aging population.

In order to fill these jobs, future healthcare workers need education and training. 

Take nursing for example.  The U.S. will need 1 million nurses to meet the demand by 2016. Yet 400,000 prospective nursing students were turned away by academic and training institutions in recent years, because schools don’t have enough Nurse Educators on staff.

Transitioning into healthcare education from clinical practice can be challenging, but the opportunities for salary and advancement are great.  Becoming a healthcare educator gives you a chance to give back to your profession, and mentoring students can be highly rewarding.

Thinking about a career in dentistry?

There is also a shortage of Allied Dental Educators to teach in the classroom, supervise dental hygiene students in clinical settings and dental assisting students in the laboratory, and serve as mentors to students in providing quality oral health care.