career powerpoint

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Careers
Sarah Riley Saint

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Introduction
 My name is Sarah Riley and I am a senior health science
major at Clemson with a concentration in pre-professional
health
 I am graduating in December
 My ONET profile had top scores in social, investigative, and
conventional respectively
 Social and investigative combine to create a great career in
the health field, specifically medicine
 Goal: to go to medical school and become a doctor

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History of Medicine
 Medicine has been dated back to 8000BC starting with
prehistoric medicine
 The Stone Age helped people identify which plants to eat,
and in the process also found some of the healing effects as
well
 This is called Herbal Medicine and is the earliest known
form of medicine
 The earliest surgeries have been dated back to 2000BC
 Hippocratic Oath was developed in the 4th
century BC
 Formed by Hippocrates who is also called the father of medicine

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The dream:
 I want to one day be a pediatric intensivist

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The dream:
 To be a pediatric intensivist
 They serve and care for critically ill children in a hospital setting
 Usually these are the kids with the most serious injuries or
complications and many specialties are usually consulted
 The intensivist serves as the coordinating physician for all the
different specialties and doctors the child will need to see
 It is a highly specialized career and so they are usually only
found in major hospital or Children's hospitals
 The average salary is $208.515

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Requirements
 Medical school
 Certified in pediatric critical care
 It is a 3 year fellowship after pediatric residency

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Why I am qualified:
 This is the perfect career that combines both social and
investigative aspects
 I get to work with children which I am passionate about and have
great experience working with them from being a camp counselor
to a YoungLife leader
 I love the excitement of the intensive care unit and I am good
under pressure
 I have a passion for medicine and anatomy and studying how the
body works
 I love working with people and I really deeply care about them; I
would get to help patients and families by not only saving their life
but also having an important counseling aspect as well
 Having been a lifeguard trained in CPR and first aid, I feel I am
good under pressure and can utilize my skills to help save lives

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Medical School
 I am re-taking the MCAT in July
 I plan to apply early acceptance to University of South
Carolina at Greenville Medical School
 I have taken all the necessary classes
 There is no minimum GPA or MCAT score and they really
emphasize the whole person
 I am hoping to do my internship at GHS to help me get my
foot in the door even more
 I have already been on a tour and sat down with the financial
aid director to talk about various payment options

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Continued
 Applications are due by August 1
 Notification of early acceptance in October!

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Greenville Medical School

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Back-up plan:
 I plan to take the Spring semester off if I don’t get into
medical school and apply for graduate school
 I would apply for Vanderbilt graduate school to get a Masters
in Public Health
 The deadline for that application is in March so I will need to
take the GRE in December (after I have already heard about
medical school)
 There is also an online program at East Tennessee University
that is online that I could start in the fall of 2016 as well

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References:
 "Greenville+medical+school - Google Search."
Greenville+medical+school - Google Search. N.p., n.d.Web.
18 May 2015.
 "HISTORY OF MEDICINE." HISTORY OF MEDICINE. N.p., n.d.
Web. 18 May 2015.
 N.p., n.d.Web.
 "Salary: Pediatric Intensivist." Glassdoor. N.p., n.d.Web. 18
May 2015.