Category: Medical Careers

Overview    Most neurosurgeons work as a team with anesthetists, trainee doctors, theatre nurses, and medical students. Not only are neurosurgeons in charge of a very delicate organ, but they also have to treat their team with respect. After the surgery, a team has to communicate with the surgeons to understand…

Overview A Forensic Nurse Examiner (also known as a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner or SANE) is a nurse who is specifically trained to care for victims of sexual violence. A forensic nurse’s primary role is to collect evidence, offer crisis interventions, provide specialized medical care, and serve as an expert…

Physician’s Assistants care for people of all ages in virtually all specialty and primary care areas, diagnosing and treating common illnesses and working minor procedures. Typically, their specific duties vary depending on their supervising physician and state law, but they provide many of the same services as a primary care…

Overview Radiologists are unique doctors that use imaging equipment, like X-rays and MRIs, to diagnose and provide care for patients. There are many different specialists in radiology, like interventional radiologists and radiation oncologists (both of which we’ll be talking about more in-depth in other posts!), but this time, we’ll just…

A pediatric cardiologist is someone who specializes in diagnosing and treating children – infants and adolescents as well – regarding their cardiovascular system, more specifically the heart. As said before, pediatric cardiologists focus on children’s hearts and cardiovascular systems, which become present at birth or early in their lives. Compare…

 Sonography requires imaging equipment to record sound waves to produce ultrasounds or sonograms. One well-known career in using sonography is as an ultrasound technician. By using specialized equipment to take these images, it provides additional healthcare providers to help analyze and diagnose medical conditions. More specifically, an ultrasound tech operates…

Neurologists work with patients who have had something harmful to their brain. So a Neurologist’s job is to examine the muscles and nerve abnormalities that may currently have a recent trauma. Then after the examination, they start to administer treatment plans to increase the patient’s way of life which is…

A NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) nurse is someone who sub-specializes in treating newborns in a frailer state than they are already in. Working in the NICU as a nurse means that you work with newborns who need attentive care because of their fragile state. This means that NICU nurses…