In the Air Force:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN); Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner; Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Family Nurse Practitioner; Critical Care Medicine; Family Physician, Obstetrics; General Practice Physician; Pediatrician, Cardiology; Pediatrician, Endocrinology; Pediatrician, Infectious Diseases; Pediatrician, Neurology; Pediatrician, Sleep Medicine
In the Army:
Certified Nurse Midwife; Family Medicine; Family Nurse Practitioner; Nurse Corps Officer; Pediatrician
In the Navy:
Pediatrician; Pediatrics, General; Pediatrics, Subspecialty
To improve the quality of life of a child is immensely rewarding. Pediatricians combine science, technology, compassion, and people skills in a unique profession tasked with providing medical care for infants, children, and young adults. Pediatricians are physicians who diagnose, treat and help prevent children’s diseases and injuries, from birth through young adulthood. At clinics, they regularly see patients for “well-child” visits where they check to see if kids are growing and developing appropriately, as well as ensuring children receive necessary vaccines and health tests such as hearing and vision screening. Pediatricians also see children when they are sick, and prescribe medications or other treatment. These physicians work with the whole family to design treatment plans and provide the knowledge and support that is needed to care for a child. While most pediatricians work in doctors’ offices; others care for patients in hospitals. Pediatricians may specialize in different areas such as pediatric surgery or autoimmune disorders. After college, pediatricians complete 4 years of medical school, followed by 3 years of residency training in general pediatrics. Pediatricians may seek additional training in a specialty field.
What they do:
Physicians who diagnose, treat, and help prevent children's diseases and injuries.
On the job, you would:
Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.
Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
Health
medicine and dentistry
therapy and counseling
Arts and Humanities
English language
Math and Science
biology
psychology
Business
customer service
Basic Skills
listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
Problem Solving
noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Verbal
communicate by speaking
listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
notice when problems happen
Visual Understanding
see hidden patterns
quickly know what you are looking at
Attention
pay attention to something without being distracted
People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
Dependability
Integrity
Attention to Detail
Concern for Others
Stress Tolerance
Analytical Thinking
You might use software like this on the job:
Medical software
Advanced Data Systems MedicsDocAssistant for Pediatrics
EMR Experts Pediatric EMR
Information retrieval or search software
Drug reference software
Medical information databases
Electronic mail software
Email software
doctoral degree or post-doctoral training usually needed
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