QShae's+I+Search+Paper

 THE I-SEARCH PAPER 

By: Qshae Watson

Introduction    I’ve always wanted to be a doctor since I was in the 5th grade. The reason why I want to become a doctor is because I want to be successful in life. Not only do I want to provide for me, but for my family as well. The things that I already know about doctors are that they make a lot of money. I also know that it takes a lot of experience and hard work to become a doctor. You have to be very careful because someone’s life is on the line when you want to become a surgeon. I would need to know a lot about the requirements that are needed to become a successful doctor. I would need these following questions answered………. What will I need to learn? How much money will I make a year? How long will it be before I start making money? Will they accept me? How will I do on my job? I would really like to become the next famous doctor in the world. I would want my future to be very bright and successful. But I know that I can become anything I set my mind to be. So if I believe that I can become a doctor, that’s what I will be. I will be a good, successful, and sophisticated doctor. I will be the first ever in my family with a good, hard-working career. The Story of My Search

To find out everything that I need to know about my career in becoming a surgeon, I would need to go on a website like [|www.cia.gov/oco]. That website would tell me everything I would need to know. Like the education I need and how much money I will make, the job outlook, and the nature of work, which tells what doctors do. As I was researching about my career I found out a lot of interesting and uninteresting things about the duties and responsibilities of a surgeon. Some things weren’t as I had expected. Like the amount of money they make. I knew they get paid a lot of money, but I wasn’t expecting that much. There were also things in my research that wasn’t as easy to find. I had to go on several other different websites I had to go on to look for some topics. [|www.doctor.com,www.wikepedia.com,and] etc. I looked all over the place for information. There was never an official website that I got all of my information from. But either way I found all of the info I need and I ended up getting it all done.

Results

But I want to be a surgeon, which is different from a regular doctor. But I found out a lot about surgeons and what they do to become successful. I found out that if you work as a full-time surgeon your salary is at least $60,989-$153,200 per year. I thought that it would be hard to be a surgeon, and I found out that before you become a doctor you have to become a physician, and you must do some honest soul searching. Medicine is a career that requires many years of preparation. It takes three years of internship and residency. Being smart and doing well in science are obviously important components of being a successful physician. As a physician you have an opportunity to help others. Wanting to help others and enjoying helping others are necessary attributes of becoming a great physician. In this career tasks are included such as: delivering babies, taking care of children, handling emergencies, removing someone’s cancer, or talking to someone who needs psychiatric help. You have choices and situations were there are people’s lives on the line. Career – Surgeon Duties/Responsibilities – surgeons diagnose illness and prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from injuries or diseases. Qualifications/Education –requires 4 years of undergraduate school Training -4 years of medical school, and 3-8 years of internship and residency, depending on the specialty selected. Applicants must submit transcripts scores from the Medical College Admission Test, and letters of recommendation. Taking classes such as anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology, pathology, medical ethnics, and law governmenting medicine

(NOTE) Source: Medical Group Management Association, Physician Compensation and Production Report, 2005. ||
 * **  Table 2. Median compensation for physicians, 2005.    ** ||
 * **Specialty** || ** Less than two years in specialty ** || ** Over one year in specialty ** ||
 * ** Anesthesiology ** || $259,948 || $321,686 ||
 * ** Surgery: General ** || 228,839 || 282,504 ||
 * ** Obstetrics/gynecology: General ** || 203,270 || 247,348 ||
 * ** Psychiatry: General ** || 173,922 || 180,000 ||
 * ** Internal medicine: General ** || 141,912 || 166,420 ||
 * ** Pediatrics: General ** || 132,953 || 161,331 ||
 * ** Family practice (without obstetrics) ** || 137,119 || 156,010 ||
 * ** Footnotes: **

This chart shows the salary for surgeons in 2005. Reflections

So, what do I think? I am still looking forward to becoming a surgeon. Even though it requires a lot hard work and high academic levels and achievements, I know that I an able to pull it off in the future. Although I was very surprised in what I found out about my career, I will be attending either Harvard or USC as a college and I know they will be a very big help for my career. I will most definitely still strive toward this career. This knowledge also affects the rest of my high school years by the fact that I can do things right now to help me with my career. Like take classes that will help me learn things ahead for my upcoming career. In my freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years, I will have to maintain good grades so I can go to the colleges I want to. But I will really need to focus my senior year because the following year will be the year I start going to college.



Bibliography

1. [|www.bls.gov/oco.com] 2. [|www.surgeons.com] 3. [|www.wikepedia.com] 4. [|www.cia.gov.com] 5. [|www.google.com]