Every allied health profession tracked on this site has a set of specialty add-on credentials that practitioners pursue once they hold the entry credential and have built two to five years of staff practice. Specialty credentials document scope-of-practice extensions, clinical-setting expertise, or vendor-specific platform proficiency, and they are routinely associated with documented wage premiums and improved mobility into lead, charge, traveler, and educator roles. The pages below profile the recognized specialty pathways for each of the ten professions on this site.
Medical Assistant Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to medical assistants after the entry-level CMA (AAMA).
Open pathway →Phlebotomist Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to phlebotomists after the entry-level CPT (NHA).
Open pathway →Emergency Medical Technician Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to emergency medical technicians after the entry-level NREMT EMT.
Open pathway →Surgical Technologist Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to surgical technologists after the entry-level CST (NBSTSA).
Open pathway →Radiologic Technologist Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to radiologic technologists after the entry-level ARRT R.
Open pathway →Respiratory Therapist Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to respiratory therapists after the entry-level CRT (NBRC).
Open pathway →Pharmacy Technician Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to pharmacy technicians after the entry-level CPhT (PTCB).
Open pathway →Dental Assistant Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to dental assistants after the entry-level CDA (DANB).
Open pathway →EKG Technician Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to ekg technicians after the entry-level CET (NHA).
Open pathway →Sterile Processing Technician Specialties
Add-on credentials and advanced practice pathways available to sterile processing technicians after the entry-level CRCST (HSPA).
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