What jobs in the medical/health care have the least difficult schooling and pay good?

Joe M: What jobs in the medical/health care have the least difficult schooling and pay good?
Im thinking about going to school in the medical/health field and have a full time family and job. Can anyone recommend jobs in these fields that are secure, pay decent and aren’t very insanely hard schooling? The quicker the schooling the better. The easier school, the better. Any help is appreciated!
preferrably one that doesnt involve nursing homes

Answers and Views:

Answer by Hubble
I did a nursing assistant class at a technical collage that only took about a month to complete and I started out at $ 11.00/hour. I’m a guy and I wasn’t afraid to go into the field….there’s alot of cute women at hospitals!

Answer by beaded_bunny
CAs have like a 2 week course that most places pay for

Answer by PG
Physical Therapist is pretty easy and doesn’t require much schooling. The schedule is also quite flexible, so you can have more time w/ your family.

Answer by NurseNancy
For the best ratio of school: pay I think nursing. You can do that in as little as a year and the starting salary is great

Answer by Homegirl
Medical transcription. Judging by your post, you can spell and have good grammar. MTs work at home. The pay is not good starting out but by the end of the first year an average MT makes about $ 18 to $ 20 an hour. You are paid on production, can work at home, and there are tons of jobs. Training is relatively fast at about 4 months to a year depending where you go to school. It’s not super hard to learn but is a developed skill. At times, you’ll want to throw your computer out the window; However, once you learn it, it’s not that difficult. You can train at home online in your spare time w/ a self-paced online school. Choose one that has an internship program to help you get started working. Also, you said you have a family, if you could train with your wife and both do it, all the better. You would save on childcare/daycare expenses, be together more, and if you didn’t want to work for someone else, you could start your own MT Services. MT Service owners make VERY good money- $ 100,000 plus for a small to average sized service and more if you grow it large.

You next best bet would be to learn medical coding/billing. However, that is mostly done in the doctors office or hospital. For a hospital job, you would need a high level coding credential and a longer training period. For a doctor’s office job, the pay would start around $ 12 w/o a credential and more w/ one.