Health professor vs adjunct assistant professor

The differences between health professors and adjunct assistant professors can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a health professor and an adjunct assistant professor. Additionally, an adjunct assistant professor has an average salary of $100,809, which is higher than the $99,056 average annual salary of a health professor.

The top three skills for a health professor include health education, physiology and clinical laboratory. The most important skills for an adjunct assistant professor are course content, ethics, and physiology.

Health professor vs adjunct assistant professor overview

	Health Professor	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Yearly salary	$99,056	$100,809
Hourly rate	$47.62	$48.47
Growth rate	12%	12%
Number of jobs	58,858	24,137
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 45%	Bachelor's Degree, 42%
Average age	46	46
Years of experience	4	4

Health professor vs adjunct assistant professor salary

Health professors and adjunct assistant professors have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Health Professor	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Average salary	$99,056	$100,809
Salary range	Between $40,000 And $244,000	Between $52,000 And $192,000
Highest paying City	-	Salt Lake City, UT
Highest paying state	-	Utah
Best paying company	-	UMiami Health System
Best paying industry	-	Health Care

Differences between health professor and adjunct assistant professor education

There are a few differences between a health professor and an adjunct assistant professor in terms of educational background:

	Health Professor	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 45%	Bachelor's Degree, 42%
Most common major	Kinesiology	Psychology
Most common college	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Health professor vs adjunct assistant professor demographics

Here are the differences between health professors' and adjunct assistant professors' demographics:

	Health Professor	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Average age	46	46
Gender ratio	Male, 36.0% Female, 64.0%	Male, 52.7% Female, 47.3%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.3% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 10.3% Asian, 11.2% White, 65.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 7.1% Unknown, 4.9% Hispanic or Latino, 10.1% Asian, 14.5% White, 63.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	16%	16%

Differences between health professor and adjunct assistant professor duties and responsibilities

Health professor example responsibilities.

Lead outreach to community and statewide stakeholders in the PPCC entrepreneurship program.
Develop contextually sensitive evidence aggregation methods from patient records that consider whole patients over time, rather than just linguistic correctness.
Develop and provide graduate level lecture/support to doctorate candidates in the area of clinical pharmacology and research
Assess the differences in biomarkers of exposure among African-Americans and Caucasians, comparing menthol and non-menthol cigarette smoking.

Adjunct assistant professor example responsibilities.

Lead outreach to community and statewide stakeholders in the PPCC entrepreneurship program.
Work with a diverse student body in both writing instruction and literature courses.
Instruct students in photojournalism courses as well as ethics, reporting and editing practicum.
Create lectures and assignments that help students draw connections between mathematics and other sciences.
Collaborate with primary professor to develop class curriculum and syllabus.
Incorporate clinical and biomedical cases to further understanding of human physiology and understanding of anatomical concepts.

Health professor vs adjunct assistant professor skills

Common health professor skills

Health Education, 56%
Physiology, 19%
Clinical Laboratory, 14%
Ethics, 7%
Course Materials, 4%

Common adjunct assistant professor skills

Course Content, 34%
Ethics, 24%
Physiology, 3%
Philosophy, 3%
Freshman, 3%
Economics, 3%

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