Medical Surveillance Technician

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Duties and Responsibilities:

• Disease cause finding 
• Outbreak identification
• Reporting practices
• Vision Screening
• Drug and Alcohol testing

Salary:

$62,468

Education:

• Associates degree 
• 0-2 years of experience 

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not? 

I think I would like to be a Medical Surveillance Technician. I would like to know how it is to find the root of a medical problem.

Military Medical Opportunities

Learn the different Military Medical Pathways, select one and do the following

Medical Corps Officer

Duties and responsibilities:

• commanding and controlling medical units during emergency and non-emergency medical situations
• coordinate emplyment of medical units during emergency at all levels of command in U.S and multinational operations

Salary:

$90, 909

Education:

• An orientation to the Army health care team
• Army doctrine
• Height and weight standards
• pass Army physical fitness test
• attend U.S army medical department center and school at Fort Sam Houston

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I think i would like to be a medical corps officer. For the reason that it would be a great experience. You get to serve your country. You get to be practice in other places in the world.

Medical Assistant

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Duties and responsibilities:

• Complete administrative and clinical tasks in the offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other health practitioners  

Salary:

$29,370

Education:

• on job training
• high school diploma
• post secondary education such as a certificate 

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would not like to be a medical assistant. I think it would be better to go for the actual doctor. But I would like to also be one. For the reason that it will be an easier job than being a doctor. It's faster training than a doctor. And you also still get to help people.

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Licensed Practical Nurse

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Duties and Responsibilities:

o   Provide basic nursing care

Salary:

o   $41,540

Education:

o   State approved educational program

o   Must be licensed

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one?

I think I would like to be a licensed practical nurse. I would like to be one because you nurse people back to health. It seems like an easy job. Also, you don’t need a lot of educational requirements. You get to bond with people of your community.

Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities:

o   They assist lives of the sick, disabled, and elderly by assisting with personal tasks such as dressing and bathing and helping to keep homes safe and clean

Salary:

o   $22,050

Education:

o   Some states require HHAs to take preparation classes before starting the job.

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Reflection:

Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would not like to be a home health aide. For the reason that getting too attached to one of the people and have they die would be too much of a stressor for me. I at the same time would like to be one to help those in need. Also, check up on their health and help them do daily tasks that there age or disability they can no longer do it.

Oncologist

Duties and responsibilities:

o   Specialize and diagnose the treatment of cancer

o   Diagnose the stage of cancer

o   Explain cancer diagnosis

Salary:

$217,856

Education:

o   Master’s degree on oncology nursing

o   Doctor of medicine

o   Fellowship in oncology

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I don’t think I would like to be an oncologist. The reason is because telling a parent that there son or daughter has cancer. But I would also like to be one for the reason that you get to help out the people with cancer. But mostly I wouldn’t want to be one to deliver the news of a family member having cancer.

Health Information Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties include data entry and retrieval, in addition to claims processing and data modeling. Health information specialists also assist in maintaining administrative data and maintain the integrity of records.

Salary:

$30,000-42,000

Education:

Associate or Bachelor’s degree

Professional certificate

Post-secondary certificate

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I think I wouldn't like to be one. I wouldn't like to be one because it’s very stressful. Such as you need to know where every record is placed. You need to not lose any records. Missing records would cost your job and the work you put into it. I think it would also be hard finding the right file.

Registered Dietitian

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Duties and Responsibilities:

o  Work in treatment and prevention of disease.

o  Food and nutrition industry

o  Wellness programs

o  Sports nutrition

o  Sports nutrition

Salary:

55,240

Education:

Food and nutrition sciences, Foodservice systems management, Business, Economics, Computer science, culinary arts, Sociology, Communications, biochemistry, physiology, Microbiology, Anatomy, and Chemistry

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I would like to be one because I want to study most of their education requirements and do their job description.