Herbert Said:

Question about medical careers! ?

We Answered:

Step 1Investigate medicine as a career. Be sure that this is a profession that you feel passionately about and are willing to work long hours for.

Step 2Discuss a medical career with counselors at your high school as well as advisors at colleges and universities where you plan to apply.

Step 3Find out what college courses are a prerequisite for medical school. Include them in your 4-year college curriculum.

Step 4Take the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT).

Step 5Investigate medical schools. Include schools of osteopathic medicine. Doctors of osteopathy (DOs) have all the same rights and privileges as doctors of medicine (MDs).

Step 6In your senior year of college, apply for admission to the medical school of your choice and secure funding.

Becoming an Emergency Room Doctor
Step 1Complete the third year clinical rotations before choosing a specialty.

Step 2Investigate emergency medicine at the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Step 3Take extra electives working the emergency room, perhaps in the subspecialties of emergency medicine/pediatrics, emergency medicine/internal medicine or emergency medicine/critical care.

Step 4Decide what kind of residency you want to enter. There are 3-, 4-, and 5-year training programs. The 5-year programs lead to board certification in two specialties; for example, family practice and emergency room medicine.

Step 5Participate in the residency matching program.

Step 6Finish your residency.

Step 7Firm up job opportunities early in the next to last and last years of your residency.

Step 8Comply with the requirements for board certification. These requirements are defined by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

While in training, it is possible to develop a network that will assist you in securing employment. This network should include attending physicians, residents that preceded you in the training program and contacts gained through conferences and meetings.

Bertha Said:

What would be a good attention grabber for an essay describing the job of a medical lab assistant?

We Answered:

Start with a mystery... What if you could be a part of an investigation?... You have part of the mystery you just need to see what is missing.... obviously you think there is something interesting about a medical lab assistant so just put it in words. It doesn't matter if it is really corny if you get the attention of your audience.... good luck

Glenn Said:

Overview of these medical careers?

We Answered:

You can't go wrong with any of these 3 careers. But they are very different and PT will require much more schooling than RT or DMS (ultrasound). These links have all kinds of basic info for these careers:

Physical Therapist: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos080.htm

Respiratory Therapist: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos084.htm

DMS: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos273.htm

Good luck :)