Military Medical Opportunities

Preventive Medicine Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Preventive medicine specialists are primarily responsible for conducting or assisting with preventive medicine inspections, surveys and preventative medicine laboratory procedures. They also supervise preventive medicine facilities or serve on preventive medicine staffs
Salary: $218180
Education:  at least a bachelor's degree and many have advanced degrees. Although no specific major is required, all students must complete undergraduate work in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, and English

Reflection: I wouldn’t want to be a preventive medicine specialist. This looks like I wouldn’t enjoy the job, it looks very difficult but I would be thud because I want to join something that has to do with the war one day in life.

Medical Illustrator

Duties and Responsibilities: Medical illustrators produce resources such as photography and graphic images for professionals involved in patient care, teaching, education and research.
Salary: The median salary for a medical illustrator or medical animator is $62,000 and can range up to $100,000
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Pre-Medical Illustration

I would not like to be a medical illustrator. This job looks very hard and it looks like I wouldn’t like it.

Health Educator

Duties and Responsibilities: Health educators teach people about behaviors that promote wellness. They develop and implement strategies to improve the health of individuals and communities.
Salary: $48,790
Education: Health educators need a bachelor’s degree. Many employers require the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credential.

Reflection: I would not like to be a health educator. This job looks very boring because you just have to like talk to patients and describe                                                                                             things and that seems very difficult in some                                                                                             situations.

Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Health information management specialists help protect the privacy and ensure the accuracy of patients' medical records. They frequently have roles in billing and diagnostic coding, as well.

Salary: $37,710

Education:  completed an associate's degree or bachelor's degree through a school accredited by CAHIIM 

Reflection: I would not like to be a health information specialist. It looks like a very hard job. They also do not earn a lot of money.

Environmental Health Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Environmental Health Specialist is a professional class series responsible for implementing program activities related to the protection of the environment and the public health and safety of San Diego County residents through permit, inspection, education, consultation, planning, investigation and enforcement activities

Salary: $51,292.80 - $62,982.40 Annually

Education: Bachelor's degree

Reflection: I would not like to be an environmental health specialist. This looks like a very boring job I would not like anything g to do in the field.

Diagnostic Radiologist
Duties and responsibilities: Radiologists use medical imaging technologies, such as X-rays, CT scans and MRIs, to diagnose and make treatment decisions regarding patients' health problems. 
Salary: The average annual radiologist salary is $379,790
Education: 4-year bachelor's degree program. Then they must complete four years of medical school followed by several years of residency training in radiology.

Reflection: I wouldn't want to be a diagnostic radiologist. It looks like a very difficult job.

Dermatologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Dermatologists specialize in preventing, diagnosing, and treating skin diseases and conditions. Examples of common conditions that they treat include acne, dandruff, and skin cancer. 

Salary: $53.86 - $80+ per hour.

Education: Four years getting your bachelor's, four years getting your medical degree, and three years in residency training.

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a dermatologists because you have to go to school a lot. Other than that it looks like a nice job.

                                                    Clinical Manager

Duties and Responsibilities: Clinical managers, a type of medical and health services manager, work as managers in both administrative and medical capacities to ensure that the establishment for which they work runs smoothly. 

Salary: $73,000

Education: Coursework in a relevant 4-year, bachelor degree program includes courses on health care law and ethics, health care financial management, organization and management in health care, information systems for health care, health care administration, and case management.

                    

Reflection: I wouldn’t like to be a clinical manager. This career does not interest me. It looks like a very boring job.