Military Medical Careers

Military Medical Careers “Firefighter”

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform rescue and firefighting operations during structural fires, aircraft crashes, vehicle emergencies and natural cover fires
• Drive firefighting trucks and emergency rescue vehicles
• Give first aid to injured personnel
• Perform emergency response duties during hazardous materials incidents
• Inspect aircraft, buildings and equipment for fire hazards
• Teach fire protection procedures and repair/refill firefighting equipment.
  Salary: $34,000

Educational Requirements:

those who want to serve must first take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, a series of tests that helps you better understand your strengths and identify which Army jobs are best for you.

 

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Oriental Medicine Doctor

Duties and Responsibilities:

Oriental medicine practitioners use for acupuncture and treatment through the Chinese concept of “qi,” which means energy. Oriental medicine treats a variety of ailments including headaches, back pain, arthritis, or other illnesses by identifying patterns of imbalance within a body’s energy levels and working to readjust fluids or tissues in order to keep the body in balance and relieve pain. Oriental medicine techniques include acupuncture, cupping, acupressure, and herbal supplements that are applied to specific body parts or tissues. Practitioners must be able to evaluate a patient’s symptoms and identify what organs or tissues are causing the ailment, and come up with a customized plan that incorporates oriental herbs and practices into a treatment.

Acupuncture treatments involve the use of needles being placed in joints and tissues. Cupping involves using cups as a suction equipment to help release toxins from within the body. Acupressure is a form of massage that applies pressure on various points in order to relieve pain in other body parts. Herbal supplements are used to treat ailments from the inside and flush toxins out that may be the cause. These are some of the most popular forms of oriental medicine that are used to treat a variety of conditions.

Salary: $61,000

Educational Requirements:

Education and training requirements vary state for becoming an oriental medicine practitioner. Some Some practitioners are licensed to be a physician’s assistant and then take classes to become certified in oriental medicine. Most practitioners earn a Bachelor’s degree in biology or another medical related field, then go on to fill state requirements for practicing oriental medicine. Most states require students to work as an intern or apprentice for a specific number of hours in order to qualify for certification, and then have them take an examination to become certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Most training is obtained during an internship or apprenticeship, and many students who work as intern often get hired in as a full-time practitioner once their certification is obtained.

Reflection: I would like to be a Oriental medicine doctor because I would be able to make a positive change in peoples lifes. Also I would be giving people medicine to help them get better and helping people get better makes me happy. (:

Oriental Medicine Doctor

Oriental Medicine Doctor

Duties and Responsibilities:

Oriental medicine practitioners use for acupuncture and treatment through the Chinese concept of “qi,” which means energy. Oriental medicine treats a variety of ailments including headaches, back pain, arthritis, or other illnesses by identifying patterns of imbalance within a body’s energy levels and working to readjust fluids or tissues in order to keep the body in balance and relieve pain. Oriental medicine techniques include acupuncture, cupping, acupressure, and herbal supplements that are applied to specific body parts or tissues. Practitioners must be able to evaluate a patient’s symptoms and identify what organs or tissues are causing the ailment, and come up with a customized plan that incorporates oriental herbs and practices into a treatment.

Acupuncture treatments involve the use of needles being placed in joints and tissues. Cupping involves using cups as a suction equipment to help release toxins from within the body. Acupressure is a form of massage that applies pressure on various points in order to relieve pain in other body parts. Herbal supplements are used to treat ailments from the inside and flush toxins out that may be the cause. These are some of the most popular forms of oriental medicine that are used to treat a variety of conditions.

Salary: $61,000

Educational Requirements:

Education and training requirements vary state for becoming an oriental medicine practitioner. Some Some practitioners are licensed to be a physician’s assistant and then take classes to become certified in oriental medicine. Most practitioners earn a Bachelor’s degree in biology or another medical related field, then go on to fill state requirements for practicing oriental medicine. Most states require students to work as an intern or apprentice for a specific number of hours in order to qualify for certification, and then have them take an examination to become certified through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Most training is obtained during an internship or apprenticeship, and many students who work as intern often get hired in as a full-time practitioner once their certification is obtained.

Reflection: I would like to be a Oriental medicine doctor because I would be able to make a positive change in peoples lifes. Also I would be giving people medicine to help them get better and helping people get better makes me happy. (:

Student Success Statement

 

Student Success Statement

“A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.”

This statement means that a persons health is more important than anything because thats what keeps a person moving and thinking right.

Sports Medicine Doctor

Sports Medicine Doctor

Duties and Responsibilities:

As a sports medicine doctor, you will diagnose and treat athletes and other active people suffering from a sports-related injury or illness. You will have the opportunity to work with medical professionals such as surgeons, physical therapists, physiologists, nutritionists and coaches to help patients in their recovery. You may also be asked to come up with ways of preventing injury and promoting health for individuals actively involved in sports and exercise.

Salary: $148,419 -$202,790

Educational Requirements:

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree with a strong pre-medical curriculum, you must attend an accredited medical school to earn a doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O). These similar programs take four years to complete and include coursework in the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, biochemistry and physiology, as well as the legal aspects of medicine, among other topics.

After receiving your degree, you must perform a residency lasting 2-7 years in a specialty such as family medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, internal medicine, emergency medicine or pediatrics. As part of your residency, look to become involved in research projects and select rotation geared toward sports medicine. During your residency you can study urgent care, pharmacology, musculoskeletal medicine and endocrinology.

Following residency, you can complete a sports medicine fellowship; this usually takes 1-2 years to complete. Besides lectures, you may be involved in doing clinical work with patients trying to recover from musculoskeletal injuries such as sprains, stress fractures or injuries from overuse. You may also assist athletes with strength conditioning or help them deal with non-musculoskeletal injuries, like brain trauma, chronic illness or issues related to nutrition and performance.

Reflection: I would like to be a sports medicine doctor because I can be able to help people from preventing themselves from injuries and help patients with their recovery.

Student Success statement

Student Success Statement       

“Courage is being scared of death and doing the right thing anyway.”

-Chae Richardson

What this statement means to me is that sometimes people need to risk their life to help others. In the way that if a person that risks their life to stop something bad from happening at least you wouldn’t feel guilty because you knew you could of stop it from happening and you faced the conflict.

Wellness Professional

Wellness Professional

Duties and Responsibilities:

A job as a wellness coordinator lets you combine your interests in fitness, nutrition and metal and spiritual health with the desire to help others. Wellness professionals help businesses to save money on employee-related costs while improving productivity and morale. Designing, implementing and managing corporate wellness programs is a demanding job, but one that lets you see the changes you make in co-workers’ lives on a daily basis.

Salary: $43,842-$69,500

Education:

The wellness profession is not as old and identifiable as traditional fields such as accounting and marketing, and there is no classic skill-set for entering the field. Backgrounds that are helpful for wellness professionals include human resources, business administration, exercise physiology, nutrition, mental health and personal training. Successful practitioners don’t need a background in health and fitness if they have human resources and business training. People with health and wellness backgrounds but no business experience might find positions supporting a human resources professional in charge of a corporate wellness program.

Reflection: I would like to be a Wellness Professional

Student Success Statement

“Attitude is the mind’s paintbrush.

It can color any situation.”

In my point of view this quote is showing me that your attitude can put us in many situations. For example if were in a bad mood our attitude is mean and it affects not only us but the people around us. That our attitude also shows our true colors as in our personality and how we are.

 

 

 

attitude

Attitude-
A manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation,especially of the mind: a negative attitude.

• Personality 
• Perspective
• Point of view

Bad                             

• Disrespect

good

• respectful
• kind