Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical illustrators are highly skilled artists. They work strictly in the medical field and create graphics for textbooks, journals, magazines, and educational films. Their drawings span a wide range from microorganisms to body parts.

Some medical illustrators prepare illustrators that aid in research about or creation of artificial body parts, such as ears, and noses for patients that are deformed or have undergone some surgeries.

Average Salary: $35,000- $50,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming medical illustrators should take a college preparatory program in high school that emphasizes art and science.

In college they should either major in art and minor in science or major in in science and minor in art. Undergraduate science courses should be the same as those required for medical school.

The majority of medical illustrators have master’s degrees in the field from a program that is accredited by Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Educational Programs.

Reflection: I would like to be a medical illustrator because it seems interesting but then again I wouldn’t because I can’t draw but it seems interesting.

Medical Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities:

Medical assistants help physicians and nurses with patient care. They help them with scheduling appointments, drawing blood, pressures, reparations, temperatures, and performing other routine patient pre-examining procedures. Sometimes they help with office and clerical tasks. Medical assistants work in hospitals, clinics, and private physician offices.

Average Salary: $17,000- $18,000

Educational Requirements:    

Students should take complete high school with courses in biology, physical science, office management, communications, and human relations, although medical assistant training programs may accept GED certificates. Medical assistant training programs are provided by community colleges and for-profit technical training schools. They may take six months and two years to complete.

Reflection: I wouldn’t really like to be a medical assistant. It sounds not so interesting because you’re only helping the doctors and stuff.

Registered Dietitian

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Registered Dietitians provide advice and education about nutrition and its effect on health. They work in schools, educational administration, research, hospitals, clinics, industry, food service management, and private practice. Registered dietitians:

¤       Organize and supervise food service operations and meal preparation.

¤       Make dietary recommendations.

¤       Counsel patients and clients about diets.

¤       Supervise food purchasing.

¤       Study the nutritional value of food and how it is used by the body.

Average Salary: $30,000- $40,000

Educational Requirements:

Students should take a challenging high school curriculum that includes math and science courses. High school business courses may also prove helpful.

A Bachelor’s Degree in dietetics or a related field approved by the American Dietetic Association is required. Registered dietitians must also pass a professional exam and complete a supervised practicum.

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Chiropractor

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Chiropractors treat patients by manually adjusting parts of the human body, especially the spine. Chiropractors and their patients believe that problems with bone and nerve alignment can cause illness and problems in other parts of the body, a view not widely accepted by allopathic physicians and other traditional medical practitioners.

Chiropractors manipulate their patients’ spinal columns. They may prescribe specific diets or exercises, but not drugs. Chiropractors cannot perform surgery.

Most chiropractors establish a private practice and some provide home treatments. Others form group partnership in clinics or chiropractic hospitals.

Average Salary: $30,000-$100,000

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