About Medical Career Center
Medical Career Center is a reference for people building a career in US healthcare. It answers the questions that decide a career move: what the work pays where you live, how to qualify, where to train, and what your state requires. Every figure carries its source and date.
Last updated September 25, 2026
What you will find here
Each of the 19 professions we cover has its own guide, built around typical pay for the country, every state, and the metro areas where federal data is published; the steps and time it takes to qualify; the colleges and state-approved programs that train for it; the license, certification, or registry it requires in each state; the next steps up the career ladder and what they pay; and practical help with interviews and resumes.
Alongside the guides are the reference tools people return to: the license lookup and rules for all 51 boards of nursing, the directory of every state's nurse aide registry, 6,858 state-approved nursing assistant programs, and 10,428 college program listings. Start from the professions directory, the salary index, or the programs index.
Built on primary sources
We work from the organizations that produce the facts, not from other websites. Pay and employment come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey and its ten-year job projections. College programs come from the federal IPEDS survey of the National Center for Education Statistics. License rules come from each state board, registry rules from each state registry, and approved programs from the lists state agencies publish.
Every table names its source and the date of the data, and the methodology page explains how each figure is calculated.
What we stand for
Accuracy before everything. A figure appears on the site only when it can be traced to its source. When a source does not publish a number, we say so instead of estimating one.
State by state. Healthcare careers are regulated by states, and the answer to “what do I need?” changes at every border. Our guides give the rule for your state, not a national average that fits no one.
Current and dated. Figures are refreshed when their sources publish new data, and every page shows how recent its data is.
Plain and neutral. We explain what the data shows in plain language. We do not rank schools or employers by opinion, and we do not overstate what a number means.
Who we serve
People deciding whether a healthcare career is right for them; students choosing a program; working professionals comparing pay, planning their next step, or moving to another state; employers and educators checking requirements; and journalists and researchers who need a sourced figure.
Independence
Medical Career Center is independent. We are not affiliated with any government agency, licensing board, exam provider, school, or employer, and none of them pays for placement or influences what we publish. License decisions belong to the boards, and our lookups always link to the official record. How the site is funded is described in our advertising policy, and how we write and correct pages in our editorial standards.
Get in touch
Questions, suggestions, and corrections reach us at [email protected]. More ways to reach us are on the contact page.
Team MCC