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Nikki Ferry's research on Pediatrics




=== Description: Providing care from birth to early adulthood, pediatricians are concerned with the health of infants, children, and teenagers. They specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of a variety of ailments specific to young people and track their patients’ growth to adulthood. Like most physicians, pediatricians work with different health care workers, such as nurses and other physicians, to assess and treat children with various ailments, such as muscular dystrophy. Most of the work of pediatricians, however, involves treating day-to-day illnesses that are common to children—minor injuries, infectious diseases, and immunizations—much as a general practitioner treats adults. ===



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=== Salary: Medical Economics magazine reports a salary range for pediatricians from less than $60,000 up to $400,000 a year, with doctors that saw more patients and worked longer hours generally making more money, while those who work part time make less. ===

Schooling Required: Pediatricians typically complete 11 years of training to become a pediatrician, including:
=== Pediatric specialists, like a pediatric cardiologist or pediatric endocrinologist, also have to complete at least 3 years of specialty fellowship training. All pediatricians, as doctors, need a Doctorates degree. ===
 * === 4 years of college ===
 * === 4 years of medical school ===
 * === 1 year of an internship in pediatrics ===
 * === 2 years of a pediatric residency ===



-South University School of Nursing
=== Would You Be Interested In This Career?: I wanted this job because I love kids and I want to help them, but I don't have the initiative for this job. I think I would rather be a writer, I love writing. And in my free time I could maybe volunteer in a Pediatric unit of a hospital and make balloon animals for the kids. ===



=== Pediatricians care for children from the time they are born up until early adulthood. They diagnose their patients who are ill and they are responsible for prescribing them medication. The average salary of a pediatrician is between $60,000 and $400,000, depending on whether they worked in an office with other doctors or had a private practice, and how many hours they worked. As a doctor, Pediatricians have several years of school that they have to go through after going to a four-year college. After college, pediatricians have to go through four years of medical school, one year as an intern in pediatrics, and two years of pediatric residency. On top of these eleven years, pediatric specialists have to go through at least three years of specialty fellowship training. Finding this job isn’t too difficult because there are plenty of hospitals and doctors’ offices, however the want for careers in the medical field are increasing and so it may lead to problems in the future. Being a pediatrician means diagnosing diseases, cancer, and disorders that follow the children into adulthood. It also involves talking to teens about birth control, helping overweight children start diets to prevent future health problems, order tests to confirm your diagnosis, give babies their immunization shots, treat children for strep throat and other common ailments, advise parents on surgical options and refer them to a surgeon, spend years studying and training and a lifetime keeping up with advances in medicine, respond to emergencies late at night, and work close with other doctors. ===

Interview with Brian Devlin.
=== 1. What is your profession? Healthcare 2. Do you like your job? yes 3. Positives about your job? interpersonal communications, job security 4. Negatives about your job? long hours, low salary 5. What are your job roles and what is your title?heavy data input, telephone, Health Unit Coordinator 6. Out of college/training that you had to go through, what was the most useful and what was the least useful skills/classes/etc. that you were required to accomplish? most useful was interpersonal relationship skills, written/oral communication skill,least useful accounting classes 7. How much do you make a week? A year? 400 wk approx 25000 yr === === 8. Do you find it easy or hard to live off your salary? hard 9. Are you required to continue training/progressing in your education to remain competitive and capable to do your job? If so, what sort of continual training is required? no specific training but keeping updated via meetings and management 10. Do you find your field in high demand (competitive), not enough well qualified persons, or are there too many people within your field? I think my specialized field is in high demand 1. If you could go back to college and re-do your career choice, would you? Why? I would get a degree in the health care industry because there are competetive salaries and job security 12. How long have you had this job? 6 yrs 13. What is the hardest part of your job? dealing with the ignorant people who think their way is always best and not the way the professionals need to do things 14. What kind of hours do you work? 12 hr days 3days per week ===


 * Pediatrcian Job Description.﻿ [] 2 March 2011.**
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