Optician

Duties and Responsibilities: An optician is someone who helps fit eye glasses and contact lenses according to their ophthalmologists and optometrists. They also receive customer’s prescriptions for eye glasses and contact lenses, measure the person’s eyes, help costumers pick out eye glass frames and lens treatment, adjust eye-wear, repair or replace eye-wear, educate customer on eye-wear like how to take care of contacts or eye glasses, and many more things.

Salary: $ 21,030 - $ 52,740

Education: In order to become an optician you must have a high school diploma or an equivalent and receive on the job training. You can also go for an associate’s degree or a certificate from a community college or technical school. Some states actually do require a license.

Reflection: I would like to become an optician because it seems like a very easy job that requires a little bit or education and pays well. Also I would like to help people see. 

Wellness Professional

Duties and Responsibilities: Wellness specialists work for schools, local governments, companies or other organizations to suggest, support and train people on their health and fitness goals. A specialist often consults with people directly on lifestyle, eating and exercise habits and may direct an individual to a doctor for any serious health concerns.

Salary: $53,100

Education: A wellness specialist often has a degree in a related discipline such as nursing, fitness or sports medicine. There are no specific requirements, but many positions require on-the-job training in addition to certification from accredited wellness organizations such as the International Association of Wellness Professionals.

Reflection:  I wouldn’t want to become a wellness professional because I am not very good at talking with people. Also I think this would be a hard job.

Medical Surveillance Technician

Duties and Responsibilities: A medical surveillance technician conducts pre-placement and physical, annual medical surveillance, first response to on-site medical emergencies and pre-employment and random exam drug screening. They are also responsible for assessing and treating first aid injuries and/or refer to appropriate level of medical care.

Salary:????

Education: To be a medical surveillance technician you must have an associate’s degree and 2 years related experience or a high school diploma or a GED and 5 years of related experience.

Reflection: I would not like to become a medical surveillance technician because it seems like a hard job and I don’t like hard jobs so this job wouldn't be right for me. Also it kind of takes a while to get to the position where you win plenty of money.

Military Medical Opportunities

                                           Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities: An army psychiatrist examines, diagnoses, and treats or prescribes a course of treatment for mental or emotional disabilities, illnesses, intellectual disabilities, or situational maladjustment. They also conduct and supervise patient care and conduct medical research on diseases or military importance.

Compensation: 30 days of vacation paid annually, no-cost or low-cost medical and dental care, and Noncontributory retirement benefits with 20 years of qualifying service

Requirements: You must have the ability to operate while under stress, apply critical thinking skills, make decisions and translate those skills to battlefield conditions. You must also have the technical skills and the ability to apply the appropriate treatment or procedure at the right moments.  

Reflection: I would not like to become a psychiatrist from the military because they don’t pay you with money they pay you with benefits. Also that would be a lot of work to work where there are people who fight for our country and there is constant battles and blood.

                         Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: A medical illustrator is an artist with extensive training in medicine, science, communication, and media technology. They create imagery that advances medical science knowledge. They work closely with physicians and scientists to provide visual content for journals, books, presentations, magazines, advertisement, etc.

Salary: $ 62,000 - $ 85,000

Education: In order to become a medical illustrator you must have a master’s degree from an accredited graduate program in medical illustration. Also there is the Board of Certification of Medical Illustrators which is an independent body that administrates a two – part test to verify the competency of medical illustrators. That test includes a written test and a portfolio review.

Reflection: I would not like to become a medical illustrator because I don’t like drawing and I think it would be hard for me. Also you must go through a long and hard education to get to the level to where you just barely start the job and I don’t want that I want a short career.

                               Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical assistants complete administrative and clinical tasks in offices of physicians, podiatrists, chiropractors, and other types of health practitioners. They usually take and record patient’s history and personal information, measure vital signs, help physicians with examination, give patients injections, prepare laboratory test, and schedule appointments.

Salary: $ 29,370

Education: In order to become a medical assistant you must have a postsecondary education such as a certificate or you may enter with a high school diploma and get on the job training.  

Reflection: I would like to become a medical assistant because I want to be any type of assistant when I’m older. I would like this job because it is easy and it pays well. Also it must be fun working at a doctors office.

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Duties and Responsibilities: Licensed practical nurses provide basic medical care under the direction of registered nurses or doctors. They may work at nursing care homes, extended care facilities, hospitals, physician offices, and private homes. Their responsibilities include: monitoring patients health (checking blood pressure), provide comfort for their patients (helping them bathe or dress), administrate basic patient care (change bandages and inserting catheters), keep records on patients health, report patients concerns to their doctors, etc.

Salary: $ 41,540

Education: In order to become a licensed practical nurse you must take an educational program, be approved, and receive your certificate or diploma. Then you must complete a state approved program, the National Council Licensure Exam or NCLEX-PN. You must pass the test and get a license to be able to work as an LPN.

Reflection: I would not like to become an LPN because I already know what I want to work in. Also you have to take care of others and I think that I would not want to do that in the future.

Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities: Home health aides help and enable patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition and providing support and personal services. Some of their duties involve observing physical and mental conditions, providing housekeeping and laundry services, assist patients with bathing and changing, and help family members to care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient.

Salary: $ 20,100                                                                                             

Education: In order to become a home health aide you must not have a high school diploma but is better if you do for if you want to do something else in the future. You must complete on the job training from nurses or assistants.

Reflection: I would like to become a home health aide because you can help out disabled people or old people and it pays alright. It’s a good job because it’s an easy job that you can learn really fast.

Health Sciences Librarian

Duties and Responsibilities: A health sciences librarian is someone who helps provide access to medical information through books, pamphlets, journals, tapes, multimedia presentations, and the internet.  They help health providers, patients, and student sort out through the immense amounts of information available.

Salary: $ 58,000

Education: In order to become a health sciences librarian you must graduate from high school taking classes like English, math, typing, and sciences. They must also take a 4 year course to get a Bachelor’s degree. You must then earn a Master’s degree in library science (MLS) with courses like, scientific literature, biomedical communications, bibliographic resource use, library organization and management, and standard cataloging systems.

Reflection: I would not like to become a health sciences librarian because it seems like a hard job to do. It requires you to get a Bachelor’s and later on a Master’s degree and that takes a long time to complete. They also don’t pay that well but it seems like an easy job but just the things you have to do to become one is difficult.

Oncologist

Duties and Responsibilities: An oncologist is someone who is specialized and trained in a variety of cancer diagnostics and treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. They also collect medical history and do physical evaluations. They perform a lot of diagnostic procedures like, scanning techniques, x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, surgical operations, and biopsies.

Salary: $217,856 - $370,000

Education: In order to become an oncologist you must 8 years or more of undergraduate and medical school. Then they must train another 3-5 years in medical residency depending on what their specialty is. Then they must train again for 3 years for additionally residency or fellowship. Then they must take a licensing exam and pass it before they are able to practice.

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to become an oncologist because it takes a lot of education and by the time you leave high school you’ll be 20 and then you have to take another 14-16 years in college and training in order to be able to practice and you’ll be old by then so you will retire much quicker. Also it’s a lot of work for this because you are helping people with cancer and you must be careful.

Heliotherapy

Duties and Responsibilities: Heliotherapy’s are treatments with natural and artificial light. This can help with skin disorders, chiefly psoriasis, acne vulgaris, eczema and neonatal jaundice. It can also help the eye with a light therapy that attacks the retina and is used to treat circadian rhythm disorders such as late sleep phase disorder and can also be used to treat seasonal affective disorder, with some support for its use also with non-seasonal psychiatric disorders.

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to become a heliotherapist because it seems boring and I had never heard of this method of treating things. Also it doesn’t show much information of how to become one and how much it pays.

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities: Health educators teach other people about the behaviors that promote wellness. They collect data and discuss about health concerns with the communities. They also find strategies that help improve the health in a community. They teach people how to cope with or manage existing health conditions, they supervise staff that implement health education programs, collect and analyze data, help people find health services or information and many other things.

Salary: $ 41,830

Education: In order to become a health educator you must have a Bachelor’s degree in health promotions or health education. They also must complete a program that teaches students theories and methods of health education. If you want to work in a federal or state government agency you must have a masters or doctoral degree.

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to become a health educator because it’s a lot of work that you must put in to become one and if you want to win more money and work in a federal agency you must work even harder to obtain your master’s degree. It takes a lot of time to complete this and you still have to take training for a while and I just want to get a job that you can complete fast.

Reflexology

Duties and Responsibilities: Reflexology is also known as zone therapy. It is another form of treatment involving the application of pressure to different parts of the body in order to improve the general health. Reflexologists are professionals skilled in this natural art of healing. They treat patients by massaging their feet, hands, and ears to relieve them of stress, and improve circulation to the related body areas. The entire method of treatment is based on the principle that certain reflex zones in the body correspond to different body parts.

Salary: $35,000

Education: There is no specific academic requirement for reflexologists. One can get for high school education in subjects like biology, chemistry, nutrition, and health. There are a lot of private schools and graduate colleges that offer courses on reflexology. It is better to attend a 6-month or 1-year course from a training school before taking up the profession.

Reflection: I would not like to become a reflexology because it seems like a hard job that pays a little. It also sounds kind of boring.

Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: An environmental specialist is someone who inspects environmental health systems to make sure they are in agreement with the local, state, and federal regulations. Some of their duties include reviewing permits, collecting and interpreting data, investigating complaints, monitoring, educating, performing inspections, and renewing or revoking licenses.

Salary: $36,310 - $ 102,610

Education: In order to become a health specialist you must earn a Bachelor’s degree, complete an internship or training, gain experience, and pursue a Master’s degree.

Reflection: I would like to become an EHS because it seems like an easy job that pays well and you are helping the community by inspecting that places are clean and safe for people. 

Veterinarian

Duties and Responsibilities: Veterinarians do all sorts of things with animals. Their job duties range from cleaning the animal’s teeth and inspecting hooves to major surgery and animal euthanasia. They also administrate vaccines, do health checkups, fix broken bones, clean teeth, and treat skin infections.

Salary: $86,640

Education: In order to become a veterinarian you must complete 4 years of pre-veterinary of education and then 4 more years in a veterinary medicine college. You must also be licensed to practice as a veterinarian.

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to be a veterinarian because you deal with all kinds of animals and some animals I am scared of. Also when you have to deal with euthanasia I wouldn’t be able to contain myself with the poor animal and also I would be scared treating animals because some are aggressive and can hurt me.

Western Medicine Doctor
Duties and Responsibilities: In Western nations, medicine development follows a way of hypothetical deduction. They approach clear divides between health and disease. They tend to change the environment.
Salary: $61,000
Education: Bachelor’s degree and certification
Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a western medicine doctor because it’s a hard job and I wouldn’t want to hurt someone while doing my job trying to cure them.

Eastern Medicine Doctor

Duties and Responsibilities: Oriental medicine practitioners use forms of acupuncture and treatment through a Chinese concept of “qi” which means energy. Oriental medicine treats a variety of ailments that include headaches, back pain, arthritis, or other illnesses by identifying patterns of imbalance in your body. Other techniques that they use are acupuncture, cupping, acupressure, and herbal supplements that are applied to specific body parts or tissues. Practitioners must evaluate a patient with symptoms and be able to identify what organs or tissues are causing the aliment.

Salary: $61,000 a year

Education: In order to become an Eastern medicine doctor you must complete all the educational and training requirements. Some practitioners are licensed to be physician assistants; they take classes to be certified in oriental medicine. Most of the practitioners earn a Bachelor’s degree in biology or another medical related field and then go on to fill state requirements for practicing oriental medicine. Some states require students to work an intern or apprentice for a specific number of hours in order to qualify for certification.

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to be an Eastern Medicine Doctor because you use a lot of special ways to treat patients not like other doctors. They use herbs and must come up with a special plan that includes oriental herbs and practices into a treatment.

Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Doctor

Duties and Responsibilities: An ENT doctor is a specialist surgeon or physician that is responsible for diagnosing and treating conditions that originate in the head and neck that includes respiratory infections, balance and hearing problems, and thyroid problems. These specialist work long hours and about 43% of these specialists say that they work about 50 hours or more a week. They spend most of their time investigating or diagnosing patients.

Salary: about $300,000

Education:  In order to become an ENT doctor, you must complete and receive a bachelor’s degree which usually takes about 4 year before enrolling into a four year medical school. They must also enroll in a residency program and a specialized program that focuses on the sub field they want to specialize in. Those programs usually last about 2-3 years and are followed by an internship.

Reflection: I would not like to become an ENT doctor because you have to work with people in very delicate areas and I wouldn’t want to do that because I can make a mistake and I wouldn’t want to hurt them. They pay well but it’s a long road to become a specialized ENT doctor you have to 8 years of school plus 2-3 more from programs you must take and that is a lot.

 

Electrocardiograph Technician

Duties and Responsibilities:  Electrocardiograph technicians explain to patients and attach electrodes to them to prepare for an EKG test. The electrodes are attached to the EKG machine and it measures electrical impulses from the heart. With the EKG machine it can help the doctors see what is wrong with the patient’s heart. An electrocardiograph technician may work in the insurance industry, clinics, hospitals, or medical laboratories.

Salary: $25,998 - $44,062

Education: In order to become an electrocardiograph technician you must complete a certificate program or on the job training. Some courses that you may take in a certificate program are anatomy, CPR, EKG analysis, diagnostic electrocardiography, and electrocardiogram techniques.  In most states they require those technicians to be licensed and they also ask for certification. You must also have good communicating skills to be able to explain to the patients what they are going through and to calm them down if they get agitated.

Reflection: I think that this is a good job to have because it seems really easy and it does not have a lot of educational requirements. Another thing is that it is a way to help people when they have trouble with their hearts maybe you can save a life and that will make you feel good about yourself. I would actually like to have this job because I think I have good communicating skills.

Registered Dietitian

Duties and Responsibilities: A registered dietician is a nutrition expert who has reached educational and experiential requirements set by the Commission on Dietic Registration (CDR) of the Academy of Nutrition’s and Dietics (AND). They may work at places like schools, long term care facilities, hospitals, community/public health facilities, corporate nutrition programs, the food and nutrition industry, sport nutrition, business, and research.

Salary: $56,170 - $88,100

Education: In order to become a registered dietician you must complete a college/university educational program in dietics or nutrition that is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietics (ACEND). Some educational programs are coordinated program in Dietetics and Didactic program plus Dietetic Internship. Coursework must include subjects like chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and anatomy, sociology, computer science, etc.

Reflection: I would like to be a registered dietician because you can help people with food and nutrition problems. Also you can get paid well and you don’t need a lot of time in school. Another thing is that you can help people with their diets and help them be healthy acoording to their bodies.