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What are all kinds of jobs about medicine?
I want to learn medicine in the future. Are there any other jobs related to medicine except for doctor and nursing? #medicine #college-major #university #career-counseling #job #choosing-a-major #profession
4 answers
Gloria Ortiz
Gloria’s Answer
There are many more jobs than being a doctor or a nurse in medicine. I wonder if you might consider being a pharmacist. These individuals spend most of their time in school, studying how medicines work on the body. That is all they study for eight years, to be experts on medicines and how they interact with each other. While not doctors or nurses, they are the people that I have heard about most saving people's lives. How? Drug interactions can cause severe problems, especially when you are being treated for multiple things by multiple doctors. Your local pharmacist is going to be the one who checks a prescription against what you are taking now. They are going to talk with you about other medicines that you take without a prescription. I have even had a pharmacist tell me what I needed to tell my doctor to give me a prescription for. This is noble work that does not get enough credit. It is also a job that does have the strange and rigorous hours that some other medical jobs can sometimes have.
Good luck with your future in medicine.
Gloria
Chandra Stephenson
Chandra’s Answer
There are all sorts of jobs in the medical field aside from being a physician or a nurse. When I started out in the healthcare field, I started in the billing office of a hospital working as an administrative assistant. I learned there how many different roles are related to healthcare outside of direct patient care. I didn't want to be a doctor or a nurse because when I was younger surgery and bodily fluids did not sound like something for me. I decided I did like what is often referred to as the back-end or administrative side of health care -- medical billing and coding. I also really liked working with doctors to help them understand how they needed to document the services they were providing to ensure the insurance companies understood the need for those procedures / services and didn't dispute payment with the providers. Now, I provide management consulting services in a variety of administrative areas: I provide physician education, conduct medical record audits, identify gaps and problems in the revenue cycle, etc.
There are also many other roles involved in direct patient care: physical therapists, nutritionists, audiologists, pharmacists, etc.
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Richard A.
Richard’s Answer
PA's go to 2 years of PA school after college.
Registered nurses have 4 years of college.
EMT, paramedics, lab techs, x ray techs and scrub techs have fewer years of education after high school.
Consider shadowing different professions to choose what is right for you.
Emily Bong
Emily’s Answer
When I was in college I had a job doing business consulting for graduate students, staff and professors at my University to help commercialize (bring to market) their technologies/research/ideas. Many of the technologies I dealt with were in the medical field because I went to a research University with a large hospital. I had to learn basic knowledge in a variety of medical fields so that I could mentor them through the process of commercialization.