After College of Health Tech, What Next?

While seeking admission into a college of health, you may want to know, upfront, what is waiting for you when you're done in college. Some students, in their years 1, 2, or 3, may be curious to know what is next when they're done at their colleges of health technology.

This is important because knowing the end, from the start or along the way, will not only let you know how serious you have to be with your studies but will also give you some clues about your potential. This will eventually help you to make some serious decisions such as whether to cross to another school or aim for a career right after.

In this post, I will give you some insights into what you should expect when you're done with your studies at the college of health.

Your Course Of Choice Determines The Next Thing After Graduation at a College of Health

In most cases, what matters, in the end, is how it all starts. What's your proposed or running course?

Colleges of Health Technology offer several courses among which are Community Health Extension Workers (CHEW), Health Assistant, Laboratory Technology, etc.

These courses have their academic and career potential if well understood.

If you're for CHEW, for example, you're most likely to become a public health educator or assistant who may be employed by the government after a two-year or three-year course.

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You May Not Be Able to Cross to a University With Certain Courses

CHEW and a few other related colleges of health courses may not help you to cross to universities because experience has shown that most universities, at least for now, are NOT accepting this course and similar others for direct entry admission into universities.

Except where a college can regularize you for these courses, you won't be qualified for DE admission.

As a norm, universities accepting direct entry applicants accept National Diplomas (ND) from colleges of health technology. For many of the courses, only certificates are given while National Diplomas (ND) are awarded for a few such as the ones listed below:

1. Dental Therapy,
2. Dental Technology,
3. Environmental Technology, 
4. Health Information Management, 
5. Nutrition and Dietetics,
6. Paramedics Technology, 
7. Psycho-Social Rehabilitation
8. National Diploma Community Health
9. Dental Health Technology

If you go to a college of health to study any of the above-listed courses (with the National Diploma), you are surely qualified for direct entry admission. Otherwise, your school will have to regularize you (which is not too common among the colleges) before you can be qualified for direct entry.

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NYSC Will Only Be Sure For Higher National Diploma (HND)

As you must have thought, National Diploma leads to Higher National Diploma. In other words, it's only a candidate who runs a national diploma (ND) that can obtain the form for and be admitted into Higher National Diploma (HND).

Similarly, with regularization, you can be opportune to do the same i.e. proceed to the HND level.

If you don't run a national diploma course or you're not regularized, the consequence won't let you further for HND or cross to a university through DE. This, in the end, won't let you go for NYSC.

Only the BSC and HND holders are eligible for National Service. With ordinary certificate courses, national diplomas (only), or A'level courses, you're not qualified for NYSC.

With an HND from any college of health especially those running "Health Information Management" such as Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC), Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital Sokoto (SHIM-UDUTH), etc.

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You Can Be Employed or Start You Own Business After the College of Health

After a college of health course, irrespective, you can work with a private-owned or government-owned hospital. There are always positions available to holders of certificate courses, national diplomas, and higher national diplomas in different health facilities across the country.

Health assistants, for example, can assist staff nurses. Laboratory technicians can be employed to help in the laboratories, etc.

Similarly, when you're done, depending on the professional requirements of your course, you can start your own health-related business. Owning chemist shops is common among college of health graduates who are not (or yet to be) gainfully employed by the government or private institutions.

Where you will need to obtain licenses or join a professional body, this should be taken seriously before venturing into your own business.

Conclusion

You're promised a resourceful future if you go to a college of health. With the insights in this post, you should understand what is possible and what is not if you're a graduate of any program from a College of health technology.

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