Thursday, April 29, 2010

Being a Pediatrician


Being a Pediatrician is all about providing care from birth to early adulthood, pediatricians are concerned with the health of infant, children, and teenagers. They specialize in diagnosis and treatments of variety and ailments specific to young people and track their patients' growth to adulthood. If you want to become a pediatrician, you have to do a lot of work and study to complete. Especially advanced placement courses and offer college credits can eliminate some requirements when you go to college. Like most doctors', you will take a bachelor degree, usually in premed before heading off to medical school. This can vary slightly if your studying outside of the US, and some programs combine a bachelors degree and med school. Medical school takes approximately three years to complete and upon completion you need to take and pass required certifying tests. You’ll then need to complete additional training of up to four years to become a pediatrician. Most programs have residency and internship requirement that total three years and you are paid a small amount for participating in them. They can be competitive, and you’ll need to seek advice at your medical school on when to start applying for advanced internship. Some people who would like to become a pediatrician want to specialize in a certain aspect of medicine. For instance, there are pediatric cardiologists, oncologists and neurologists. Requirements may differ for each specialty.
A pediatric cardiologist first receives board certification as pediatrician. He or she will then spend up to three more additional years to be certified as a pediatric cardiologist. Total years studied for a pediatrician who decides to specialize can easily be up to 13 or 14 years. People who simply want to become a pediatrician without further specialization may spend 10-11 years in school prior to becoming certified as doctors for children. Being a pediatrician is fun job if you like children and making sure they are healthy.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Being a Lawyer


When it comes to being a lawyer you must be a very dedicated person and know what you want. Whichever capacity they're working in, lawyers must draw on research of legal and judicial decisions, and apply the law to the specific case they're working on. Lawyers must go through many years of school and studying the law. There are many different types of lawyers. Private lawyers focus on civil or criminal law, representing private individuals. In civil law, they pursue private law suits or litigation, or deal with wills, contracts, trusts, mortgages, leases and many. A criminal lawyer career is arguing a client's case in court, following the client being charged with a crime. Some lawyers only handle larger, public interest cases that are more socially important.Trial lawyers spend more time in court than other lawyers. However, the majority of their time is spent researching, interviewing clients and witnesses, and preparing for trial.
Corporate lawyers work only for corporate clients and advise them on legal issues around their business activities. A career as a corporate lawyer might involve sorting out issues relating to contracts with other companies, government regulations, patents, etc.
Intellectual property lawyers help to protect clients' claims to copyrights, creative work under contract, product designs, and computer programs.
Patent lawyers advise their clients on patent law, which allows them to protect their invention of a new product or process. A career as a patent lawyer therefore requires a lot of research as a patent can only be granted if the product or process is new, inventive and capable of being manufactured. Insurance lawyers advise insurance companies about the legality of insurance transactions, writing policies that are legally correct. They also help to protect companies from unwarranted action by reviewing claims and representing the company in court.
Environmental lawyers may represent pressure groups, interest groups, and companies whose work touches on environmental issues, such as construction, geological and waste management firms. These lawyers help their clients to apply for licenses and applications for activities which may affect the environment, or defend their clients if prosecuted by the authorities over environmental breaches.
Government lawyers who work as prosecutors and defenders on behalf of the state within the justice system. Some help to draft and interpret laws and legislation on behalf of the government. In order to become a lawyer, students must have formal education and training. The first step in this process is to obtain a bachelor's degree. After completing their undergraduate work, students will move onto law school. Law school will help students prepare to pass the bar exam. Students must pass the bar exam before becoming practicing lawyers. So, as you can being a lawer is no joke. You have to be one dedicated person that wants to be a lawyer. Good luck to all you future lawyers out there.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Being a Neurosurgeon


Being a neurosurgeon isn't easy work. You have to have brains and guts inorder to be successful at this job. A neurosurgeon is someone who specializes in operating surgery on the brain, skull and spinal cord. They also undertake operations for bleeding inside the skull caused by conditions such as head injuries, brain aneurysms, tumors and swellings of the puturity glands. Now me personally could not do this career at all. They have to be able to stay calm at all times knowing that if something goes wrong the person they are operating on can die. Also it takes many years of schooling and practice, which i cant handle. Inorder to be a neurosurgeon you must have excellent communication skiils, emotional strentgh and maturity. Becoming a neurosurgeon isn't as easy as deciding to go to medical school and specializing in that field. Neurosurgery residency programs are very competitive and the students chosen are usually in the top of their class.Neurosurgeons deal mostly with brain and spinal cord disorders. The general salary falls between $250,000 and $500,000 annually. Neurosurgeons can spend between 6 to 8 years in a residency program, then three more in a fellowship. When your a neurosurgeon, when you have helped someine and saved their life it is a wonderful feeling. It absolutely warms your heart when someone comes back after saving their life and say thank you. so, even though it takes hard work and decication when you save some one's life it is a wonderful feeling.