Part 1: Career Pathway

Electrocardiograph Technician

Online Research: Go Online. Look for and provide the following information. Publish your information as a new post in your Electronic Portfolio and upload to Dropbox.

Duties and Responsibilities: Electrocardiogram technicians work in hospitals, laboratories, or cardiologists’ offices. They perform and ECG by attaching electrodes to a patient and then turning on an ECG machine to trace electrical impulses from the heart. They use these readings to analyze the patient’s heart conditions. ECG technicians also work on stress test’s that involves the patient to be hooked up to an ECG monitor.

Salary: $25,998-$44,062

Education: You must get an associate’s degree which is a 4-year program, and another 2- years of another program of class studies and job-training in a medical facility.    

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not?

I don’t think I would like to be one because I’m not really interested in the sound base of the medical field. I prefer to do something else rather than this but if someone could change my mind then…maybe.