Healthcare scientists may work directly for health service providers, or in academia or industry.
Healthcare scientists typically refers to those contributing directly to clinical services, and not scientists working solely in health related research and development.
[1] [2] Boundaries between healthcare science and other related fields are not strictly defined.
[7] The main routes to registration and training are through courses run by the Institute of Biomedical Science or the National School of Healthcare Science.
[8] According to the bureau of labor statistics, there were 120,000 medical scientists working in the United States in 2016.