Kacie Poole Senior Trans 3rd hour 2/8/14 Career Research Paper The medical field is a wide and

growing career field with many different opportunities for employment, ut is also e!tremely competiti"e# $t has always een something $ ha"e een interested in since $ was a %id# $ remem er when $ was little $ would watch &ray's (natomy and Pri"ate Practice religiously ecause $ wanted to do e!actly what they did# $ wanted to e a surgeon# $ chose a general surgeon as the career $ want to go into ecause it deals with all forms of surgery# Surgeons perform all types of surgical procedures to correct deformities and pro lems caused y in)ury or disease# Surgeons e!amined patients, analy*e patient's medical histories, and also order and interpret diagnostic tests to see if surgery is the est way to go# $f an operation is the est way to proceed they use computers and sometimes technology to plan and perform surgeries# Surgeons wor% in hospitals, clinics, and pri"ate practices# They typically spend part of the day in the office doing consultations, part of it seeing patients in the hospital, and part of it in the operating room# Patients are often referred to them from family physicians or other medical centers# +hen on,call, wor%ing on the wee%ends is -uite common# Surgeons typically wor% long hours sometimes more than 12 hours a day, or upwards of ./ hours a wee%# 0ecause of the hectic wor% schedules and sometimes tedious procedures surgeons ma%e on a"erage 11//,///,12//,/// a year# The median compensation for general surgeons is a out 133/,/// a year# 0efore medical school you must first complete a four,year achelor4s degree# Students also need to ta%e the 5edical 6ollege (dmission Test 756(T8# The 56(T is a standardi*ed, multiple,choice e!amination designed to assess the e!aminee's pro lem

Kacie Poole Senior Trans 3rd hour 2/8/14 sol"ing, critical thin%ing, and %nowledge of science concepts and principles prere-uisite to the study of medicine. 9nce accepted into medical school it ta%es four years to complete efore your 5: is o tained# 9nce you are out of medical school you start a minimum,of,fi"e,year surgery residency# ;esidency is on,the,)o training which ta%es place in the hospitals where surgical residents are trained in general procedures# 9nce residency is completed you ha"e to e certified y a mem er oard of the (merican 0oard of 5edical Specialist 7(05S8 which in"ol"es passing written and oral e!ams# $f you would li%e to speciali*e in a more comple! area of surgery you can enter into fellowship program after residency# 5ost undergraduates ta%e a large num er of science, iology, chemistry, and physics courses# (long with those $ also plan to earn my masters degree in sociology or %inesics efore applying to medical school# Kinesics is the interpretation of ody language such as facial e!pressions and gestures or non,"er al eha"ior related to mo"ement# Sociology in"estigates how people are shaped y their social surroundings# (long with surgery, ody language and social eha"ior ha"e interested me since $ was a %id# To ecome a general surgeon there are certain -ualifications, eyond education and training, that should e o tained# $f you would li%e to go into the medical field you will need to e a le to deal with horrific sites and e a le to stay in control and calm in the situation to help the patient also stay calm# To e a surgeon you need to ha"e good people s%ills# <ou ha"e to e a le to e!plain the procedure or situation in terms that they can understand and help su side their fears# <ou also need to e courteous to your cowor%ers and e a le to accept their techni-ues and ideas for doing things#

Kacie Poole Senior Trans 3rd hour 2/8/14 (long with good compromising s%ills and eing a people person, $ ha"e many other emotional strengths that will help me in the surgical field# $ am "ery good at ma%ing impersonal decisions -uic%ly and standing y those decisions# $'m good at loo%ing at the situation from a different point of "iew and ase a decision not solely on my emotions# This way of thin%ing helps me ma%e -uic% decisions that could potentially sa"e li"es# Since $ %new that it would e difficult to inter"iew a surgeon, $ got on career cruising and used an inter"iew that was already there# The inter"iewee was =arin who is a surgical oncologist, which means she speciali*es in surgery for cancer# She o tained her 0achelor of Science degree in psycho iology, followed y medical school, a general surgery residency, and a surgical oncology fellowship# Some ad"ice she offers is>
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although it seems li%e a long road to ecoming a surgeon compared to other

fields or e"en other fields within medicine?there are o "iously long years of training in"ol"ed to get to where you are?it is an e!tremely rewarding field# $ lo"e e"ery day of my life# $ li%e wa%ing up e"ery day %nowing this# (nd if $ had to do it again, $ would do the e!act same thing again# =or me, the payoff of choosing this career is going home e"ery night %nowing that $ made a difference in someone4s life at the end of the day#@ Some careers related to general surgeons it are anesthesiologists, cardiologists, and allergist# (nesthesiologist wor% with surgeons and gi"e patients anesthetics to help %eep them pain,free during surgery# 6ardiologists are doctors who treat and diagnose conditions related to heart and lood "essels# They can also refer patients to surgeons# (llergists are medical doctors who diagnose and treat people with allergies#

Kacie Poole Senior Trans 3rd hour 2/8/14 (s you can see it is a "ery long and hard road to ecoming a general surgeon# (s with any career you ha"e to appreciate the good and tolerate the ad to ma%e it all worth while# $ am loo%ing forward to starting my career as a general surgeon and $ hope it all pans out#