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Career Exploration Project

Career Exploration Project. By: Xijun Zhu. What ? Where? When ? Why?. Job shadowed four different doctors Dr. Cody, Dr. Sthalehar , Dr. Handy, and Dr. Burrows MCBH Orthopedics During the month of August To gain insight and knowledge in working with doctors. Facts.

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Career Exploration Project

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  1. Career Exploration Project By: Xijun Zhu

  2. What? Where? When? Why? • Job shadowed four different doctors • Dr. Cody, Dr. Sthalehar, Dr. Handy, and Dr. Burrows • MCBH Orthopedics • During the month of August • To gain insight and knowledge in working with doctors

  3. Facts • The median yearly wages were $186,044 in 2008 • Physicians held about 661,400 jobs in 2008 • More doctors are working in groups or as partners • The number of jobs expected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations -Bureau of Labor Statistics

  4. What will it take? • Most people follow this pattern • 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of internship and residency, plus any specialty training • Three cornerstones of a successful career in medicine according to Carl Bianco, M.D. • Love for learning • An intellectual curiosity for medicine • A strong desire to help others

  5. Why medicine? • Filled with choices • Deliver babies, take care of babies, handle emergencies, remove cancer, talk to someone who needs psychiatric help, or teach • Do research in field of specialty • Job security • Held in high respect • It is a unique career

  6. Cons • Among the most demanding of all occupations • On call • Long, irregular hours • Highly competitive • Very costly • According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, in 2007, 85 percent of public medical school graduates were in debt for educational expenses.

  7. What I learned… • Choose a career that I like • Discipline, hard work, real passion • Ability to think on your feet • Work efficiently, time management • There will be happy and unhappy times • People around you influences you • “You’re not alone.” • Make most of the opportunities • May be paying back loan until 60 years old

  8. Continued… • Be acceptable to other forms of treatment • Work hard, play hard • Form efficient study groups • Be good to others • Learn through reading • Suck it up • Learn to work independently

  9. What would you do if you win $20 million tomorrow? • Travel • Sleep • Have fun! • “But you will come to miss your job, because it is IN YOUR BLOOD” • Dr. Sthalekar’s uncle retired from delivering babies

  10. Final thoughts…

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