Military Medical CareersDuties and Responsibilities:  Each Branch of the military has different needs and entrance requirements for medical professionals. However, one requirement all four military branches share is the physical health standards. Any minor physical weakness, or deviation, from the slightest vision or hearing impairment to flat- footnotes, could disqualify you for acceptance into the military.Average Salary:It depends on what you do but most likely to be $100k                                         Education Requirements:One of the major advantages to military medical jobs is the paid training and education. In return for a determined number of services years to pay back your training and education, you will not have to pay out of pocket for your medical degree, nursing degree, or other related healthcare training. Usually the service years are around four years of active duty. Reflections:i would not want to be a military medical career because this is not really my thing to do and also that this is really not my kinda career and i really think this career is really dangerous and i don't see myself as working as one.

Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical illustrators are some highly skilled artists.  They work in the strictly medical field and they also create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and also educational films.  And there drawing spans a wide range from microorganisms to body parts. Some of the medical illustrators prepare there illustrations that aid in the research about the creation of the artificial body parts.

Salary: $35,000 - $50,000

Education: Students that are interested in becoming part of the medical illustrators should take a college preparatory program when in high school that emphasizes art and in science. In college they should either be in a major or in the art and minor in science or a major in science and minor in art. 

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

Yes, but only if I knew how to draw I would. I find it interesting but the only thing is that when they draw they really get into all the graphics and I’m not so good at that I can’t even draw a stick figure.

Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical assistants help the physicians and also nurses deliver patient care.  They do things such as, schedule the appointments; take blood pressures, respirations, temperatures; and they perform some other routine with the patient pre-examining procedures. The Medical assistants work in places like hospitals, clinics, and private physician offices sometimes they like to help with office and clerical task.

Salary: $17,000 - $18,000

Education: Students should and complete high school courses in biology, physical science, office management, communications, and human relations, even though medical assistant training programs may accept the GED certificates. Medical assistants training is provided by community colleges and it might take between six months or two years.

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

I  think I would like to be one of these because I always had an interest in being the assistant to any job and this one helped me a lot and I think I found what I’m interested in I just have to do a little more research.(:

Emergency medical technicians

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Duties and responsibilities:

Emergency medical technicians, or ETMs, usually work in terms of two in specially designed ambulance. They provide immediate life or limb saving medical treatment at the scene of accidents and injuries as well as transport casualties to hospitals emergency decal technicians often respond to:

·       Automobile accidents

·       >>>>Heart attacks

·       >>>>Gunshot wounding

·       >>>>Unscheduled childbirth

·       >>>>Drowning’

·       >>>>Other serious medical emergencies

Average salary: $25,000-$37,000

Educational requirements:

Students must have a high school diploma to some area GED certificates may be substituted) in order to become an emergency medical   technicians. Driver’s education, health, and science courses are strongly recommended and may require before enrolling in some training programs.

Basic emergency medical technician training includes about 100-120 hours spent in the classroom and 10 hour in hospital’s emergency room. Emergency medical technicians are required to pass state licensing or certification test and participate in continuing education programs. Many emergency medical technicians earn associate degree in their field.

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Would you take this job?

I don’t think I would like this job because I wouldn’t like to be in the situation of “I could either save your life or not”  I know I would be trained but I don’t think this is the right job for me.