I chose Clinical Laboratory Science as my major and career for multiple reasons. Ever since I was young I knew I wanted to have a career where I could help people. I have also always wanted a career that was in the medical field; a career that is constantly changing and that will challenge me daily. It wasn’t until after I had taken Microbiology that it was clear that I wanted a career that was in a laboratory setting. This class and Professor helped me find my passion. I felt at home using a microscope and learning about diseases. It didn’t feel like school to me, it was something I was good at. It wasn’t until after I saw two of my grandparents go through the traumatic experience of having cancer that I knew I wanted a career where I could
At 17 years old, I had the grueling task of deciding how I wanted to spend 40 plus years of my life. I always aspired to land a career in the medical field, so I majored in biology like most pre-med hopefuls, but during my junior year, I no longer desired to become a physician. The medical field was calling out to me, but the specialty of focus was incorrect. After graduation, I went back to the basics and put my nursing assistant certification to use.
My first attempt at a career was in the military, which ended with a medical discharge after a knee injury. After a few different jobs, I felt I finally had a career when I found employment as an assembler with Oshkosh Truck. Unfortunately, in June 2014, I was laid off. It was at this time, I decided to return to college. I have always enjoyed technology and science, so I enrolled at a technical college in Fall ’14; completing general coursework, while figuring out which program would be the best fit for me. Then in March ’15 I realized that I wanted some focus in healthcare during a service-learning experience in Jamaica. I will now be starting the Medical Laboratory Technician program in Fall ’16. After all these turns, I hope to finally
The medical field is a career path that brings about many options and opportunities of great value. The noble idea of being a doctor tends to cloud the diligent studying and precise training that is actually required for this career. I have wanted to become a doctor since a very young age, and now that the opportunity is here for the taking, I have fully researched what it takes to succeed in this profession and various specialties of the practice. The road to a medical degree is one filled with thousands of notes, years of schooling, and many stressful nights, but the reward is one incomparable to any other. Saving people’s lives on a day-to-day basis has been one of my dreams for as long as I can remember, so the rigorous curriculum
There are hundreds of career paths and options, which can be overwhelming and exciting. I have looked into many possibilities and wanted to talk to a speech pathologist about their career and responsibilities. Speech pathologists, also known as speech-language pathologists or speech therapists, help individuals with a multitude of disorders, associated with swallowing, speech, and language. They can work in schools, hospitals, specialty clinics, or through private practice. I chose to interview Sherri Anderson, a speech pathologist for Rock Creek Elementary School in the Beaverton School District in Oregon. Ms. Anderson originally got a degree in English, and worked for a bookstore for a decade before going back to school to become a speech
It wasn’t until my senior year in high school when I realized that I needed to decide what to choose as a career field in which I actually had an interest in pursuing. My aunt handed me a bunch of pamphlets that dealt with a variety of different career types: business, criminal justice, education, etc. That was when I came across the healthcare field. I have always loved being able to help others as much as I am able to. There were plenty of field’s that sounded interesting but that’s when I came across the one that I was eager to begin my college career on.
There is a certain point in people’s lives where they begin to have a yearning to discover what their purpose in the world actually is. This purpose can also be described as a “Personal Legend”. What is a Personal Legend? It is one’s destiny in life and something they must achieve. Throughout Paulo Coelho’s novel
For my Health Science 1 class we were instructed to choose 3 different careers. The careers to be chosen were a health care career, a career of disinterest, and a career we would like to pursue. I aspire to be a Cardiovascular Perfusionist because it would feel great to be able to prevent someone from dying pre- maturely. I dislike the real estate field because they don't make much money and they do entirely too much work for not much profit. I choose Neurology as my health care career because I like learning about the brain, how it works and how and why people get mental disorders.
My career goal is to become a pathologist. Pathologists are like detectives, anxious to crack medical mysteries such as cancer, AIDS, and diabetes. Every disease that is on the surface of this earth is as important as the other because they have that same heartbreaking effect. One disease that I would care solve is cancer. I recently saw a picture of a little that was suffering from cancer, unfortunately, cancer won, but the picture is so heartbreaking because I can see the pain that she was in. That is just one example of the millions of individuals suffering from this disease. Everyone have one life to enjoy, I truly feel that if I am capable of finding a cure and erase this scare. I would love for a cure to be discovered sooner than later
Laboratory technicians work on test or diagnosis, treatment, and prevents any kind of other diseases that may be harmful for others, also workers set up the equipment’s. When they are doing the diagnosis they tend to “collect and study blood samples to determine the number of cells, their morphology, or their blood group, blood type, or compatibility for transfusion purposes, using microscopic techniques.”(Medical and Clinical Laboratory Career, 01Apr. 2016.) For them to find the right disease and what treatments that needs to be taken, they must know Mathematics, biology, and the presence of normal or abnormal components. So it is very important for laboratory technicians to work extremely hard on their job because the patient’s life is in
I chose to major in Pre-Professional Health Sciences because I want to become a medical scientist, conducting my own research. The reason behind this is not as straightforward as a simple desire for a medical career. Instead, my Dad’s passion and entrepreneurial attitude acted as a catalyst, triggering my longing to make my own medical breakthroughs. I was the kid with antiques and jewelry strewn all over the house because my Dad enjoyed buying collectibles to resell online. He eventually decided to make this hobby into a job because his adoration for hearing the stories associated with each item was worth more than any amount of money. In fact, my Dad’s ingenuity in starting his own company sparked my creativity and kindled the fire of my
The career field I am interested in pursuing is the medical field. The field that I am most interested in pursuing specifically in the medical is a surgeon or physical therapist.
I applied for the office coordinator's in the Coumadin department of Main Line Health on June 13, 2017. Main Line Health did not give me the opportunity for an interview. However, my peer, Mr. Michael Yuen applied for the same position, and Main Line Health extended an interview to him. Finally, the department offered Mr. Yeung the position as Office Coordinator in the Coumadin Clinic. Dr. Donald Yih is the director of the Coumadin Clinic. Dr. Yih and Mr. Yeung are both Asian.
Medicine and research changing frequently, which leads to the opportunity to become a lifelong learner in my potential career. I enjoys studying technical processes and information and will never tire of learning new things; for me, academia and facing a field that relies so heavily on research will never fail to evoke curiosity and enthusiasm. To me, the most challenging subjects have always been the most interesting ones, and I strive to conquer and succeed with these subjects. The laboratory industry, with its constantly evolving technology and methods, will always be changing and I am equipped with the desire and skill to excel in such a rapid environment. While taking Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Science class we explored all the vast options for a clinical lab major, and in all of the different applications I see nothing but opportunities. With a Clinical Lab major, there is a world of
The occupation that I would be discussing is Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologist. Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologist analyze chemical fluids for treatment or diagnosis. I chose this career because I became interested about it after a lab clinical supervisor talked about her duties and responsibilities during class.
I intend to study Medical Laboratory Science at South Dakota State University. My goal is to acquire my bachelor’s degree by completing four years in that program to earn a degree that would allow me to find a high paying career. An additional perk to my career path would be the fact that Medical Laboratory Science positions are highly in demand in South Dakota. I do plan to live and work in South Dakota after I graduate. I wish to gain a lot of experience out of this education, and gain the ability to help save lives by diagnosing and researching in a medical setting. Pursuing a college education would gain me a vast array of different career opportunities if I found that Medical Laboratory Science wasn’t for me, along with greatly increasing