Medical Careers

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Medical Assistant

•Medical assistants are there to help nurses and physicians deliver patient care. They also greet patients and escort them to the examine room.•They schedule appointments, and they also make sure there is enough medical supplies.•Take blood pressures, respirations, temperatures, and perform others routines.•Medical assistants can help in the office and clerical stacks.•They work in hospitals, clinics, and private physician offices.•Average salary: $17,000-$18,000

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Video about being a medical Assistant

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Pediatricians• About the medical Career : Pediatricians take care of

children and check if they are healthy and diagnose if any illnesses have occurred. Pediatricians examine and treat children with care, they check if they have and injuries or any illnesses of any sort.

• 9-12 hours a day, 50 hours per week, Work on weekends if they call for need assistance.

• It is hard to get hired as a pediatrician because before getting hired you need to have an education and study for it.

• Salary (www.healthcare-salaries.com)• $124,360 per year• $77.60 per hour

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What is required For a Pediatrician

• It requires about 8 years of education beyond high school. Most medical schools are  4 years, and 3 to 8 years of internship and residency depending on what kind of pediatrician you are.

• If you want to become a doctor you would need to attend four more years of medical school.

• Honest, loyal and trustworthy. • Example: (www.mypediatrician.com)

Medical School

• Skills/Qualities people need to become a Pediatrician (www.wiki.answers.com)

Hard working Must know what you are doing

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Veterinarian

• Veterinarians Take care of animals, they make sure the animals they examine are health and not injured or sick.• Veterinarians sometimes have to do surgeries to the animal to fix or take out something that is wrong.•There is a lot of steps into becoming a veterinarian, in order to be one you need to pass get a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M. or V.M.D.) degree, and that can take up to 4 years in some programs.

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About being a Veterinarian video

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Surgical technologists:

• Prepare rooms for surgery, helps physically arrange the patient for surgery and makes sure that all the surgical instruments like needles, blades, scalpels, sponges and other instruments are there before and after the operation.

• Surgical technologists maintain the sterile field and to respond to the surgeon's needs, like handing them needed instruments during surgery.

• They deliver specimens to hospitals for analysis

• Average salary: $16,000-$22,000

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Surgical technologists Requirements

The requirements for this career are:• Going to college and entering a training program and that

program takes about 9-24 months to finish and get your certificate, diploma, or associate degree.

• For this career your recommended to pass/take health, science, Chemistry and mathematics also, require a high school diploma.

Pro’s about this career: Help people out to get better Cons About this career: It is a very hard career, you get a lot of responsibilities You have to be quick on handling the medical instruments

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Diploma and certificate programs may be completed in under a year and an associate's degree program in two years.

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Nurse

• Nursing is a profession within the health care, they may be different from other health care providers by their approach to patient care and training.

• nurses are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings depending on training level.

• There's different types of nurse for example; Cardiac Nurse, Diabetes Nurse, Hospital Nurse, etc.

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About this Medical Career

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Bibliography • http://degreedirectory.org/articles/What_Are_the_Duties_and_Resp

onsibilities_of_a_Pediatrician.html (9/6/13)

• (State University.com) [online] Available http://careers.stateuniversity.com/pages/7933/Pediatrician.html (9/6/13)

• (YourPediatrician.com)• http://careerplanning.about.com/od/occupations/p/veterinarian.htm• http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/car1a.html• http://careerplanning.about.com/od/occupations/p/medical_asst.htm

• http://www.indeed.com/salary/Surgical-Technician.html

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