1. Lin Marco October 5, 2011 5th hour Career/Technology Foundations
Radiologist/Surgeon
Lin Marco
October 5, 2011
5th hour
Career/Technology Foundations

2. Introduction
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life! ~Emily Dickinson
I want to get into this career because I would want to help people and I am not afraid of blood. In order to get a better understanding of a life as a radiologist/surgeon I would be researching nature of work, working conditions, training, qualifications, advancements, job outlook/employment, earnings and related occupation

3. Nature of Work
Evaluate the medical history of the patient and choose the best method of radiology.
Prepare the patients for imaging for diagnostics
Diagnose the patient’s disease or injury from the images made
Treat the patients through nuclear medicine (nuclear medicine)or surgery
Do radiological testing to ensure the patient have been successfully treated

4. Working Conditions Both physical and mental
In a hospital and operation rooms
Work hours a week
Under pressure
Work with x-rays and patients

5. Training, Qualifications, Advancement
Training and Education
4 years of undergraduate
4 years of medical school
3-4 years of radiology training
Wayne State Med-Start or Pre-Med
Classes to take
AP Biology or AP Chemistry and Pre-Med

6. Job Outlook/Employment
Rising
22 percent from
Extremely competitive
Workplace
St. Clair Shores
Henry Ford Medical

7. Earnings Wage 300,000 dollars Goals Make a million dollars Purchases
2 story house with basketball court
2 story house on the water for my parents

8. Related Occupation Physician assistant Wage $80,000
Education and Training
4 years of undergrad
2 years of physician assistant education
Job growth
39 percent from
Work
Work under surgeons and physicians
Why?
Can continue to become a radiologist/surgeon

9. Summary
I look forward to have the opportunity to save a person’s life. know that not everyone could be saved. That is a part of the career that I would not look forward to but will accept. I would be proud to be a radiologist/surgeon . It would also make my parents proud that I would be the first doctor in the family tree.

10. Works Cited http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos105.htm