LIST OF PROFESSIONS
(Schedule of Part One of Act 857 -Sections 5, 14 and as added by the Minister in accordance with Section 22 (1) (g) of the Act)
As a Regulator, the Allied Health Professions Council was set up to protect the general public. To do this, we keep a Register of professionals who meet our standards for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health. We currently regulate Seventeen (17) Health Professions:
1. AUDIOLOGY
- Audiologist (BSc / MSc)
2. DENTAL HEALTH
- Dental Surgery Assistant (Certificate)
- Dental Technologist (Diploma)
3. DIETETICS
- Dietician (B Sc /M Sc)
4. DISEASE CONTROL
- Field Technician (Assistant)
- Disease Control Technician (Diploma)
- Disease Control Officer (B Sc)
5. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
- Environmental Health Assistant (Certificate)
- Environmental Health Technician (Diploma)
- Environmental Health Officer (B Sc /M Sc)
6. HEALTH INFORMATION AND RECORD MANAGEMENT
- Medical Record Assistant (Certificate)
- Health Information Management Technician (Diploma)
- Medical Statistician/ Health Information Officer (B Sc)
- Biostatistics Technician (Diploma)
- Biostatistician (B Sc / M Sc)
7. HEALTH PROMOTION
- Health Promotion Assistant (Certificate)
- Health Promotion Technician (Diploma)
- Health Promotion Officer (B Sc)
8. MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE:
- Medical Laboratory Assistant (Certificate)
- Medical Laboratory Technician (Diploma)
- Medical Laboratory Scientist (B Sc / M Sc)
9. MEDICAL PHYSICS
- Medical Physicists (M Sc)
10. MEDICAL RADIATION TECHNOLOGY
- Radiological Technician (Diploma)
- Diagnostic Radiographer (B Sc /M Sc)
- Nuclear Medicine Technician (Diploma)
- Nuclear Medicine Technologist (B Sc /M Sc)
- Radiation Therapist/Therapy Radiographer (B Sc /M Sc)
- Ultrasound Technician (Diploma)
- Ultrasonographer (B Sc /M Sc)
11. MENTAL HEALTH
- Community Mental Health Officer (Diploma)
- Community Mental Health (B Sc)
12. NUTRITION
- Nutrition Assistant (Certificate)
- Nutrition Technician (Diploma)
- Nutritionist/Nutritional Technical Officer (B Sc / M Sc)
13. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
- Occupation Therapy Assistant (Certificate)
- Occupational Therapy Technician (Diploma)
- Occupational Therapist (B Sc / M Sc)
14. OPTOMETRY
- Optical Dispensing Technician (Diploma)
- Optical Technician (Diploma)
- Optometrist (OD, B Sc)
15. PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Physiotherapy Assistant (Certificate)
- Physiotherapy Technician (Diploma)
- Physiotherapist (B Sc/ M Sc)
16. PROSTHETICS AND ORTHOTICS
- Prosthetics and Orthotics Assistant (Certificate)
- Prosthetics and Orthotics Technician (Diploma)
- Prosthetics and Orthotics Officer (B Sc / M Sc)
17. SPEECH THERAPY
- Speech Therapist (B Sc / M Sc)
