Graduate Students Can Hit the Professional Healthcare IT Ground Running

In today’s healthcare IT environment, graduate school students are as diverse as the employed market. Some graduate students have three or more years of experience in healthcare and others come directly from undergraduate programs, but often work part-time while attending classes. Some students are quite involved with national or local healthcare at the policy level, working on legislation, regulation or policy guidance and understand the healthcare and healthcare IT environment from a conceptual, legal and operational perspective.

Using this variety of experience gained from their education, here are four ways graduate students come prepared for the workforce.