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.

Cardiologist

Online Research:

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Duties and Responsibilities: There are two subjects in this career like one would be a Cardiologist and the other Interventional Cardiologist. The cardiologist is a physician who treats and diagnoses disease and injury of the heart and cardiovascular system. On the other hand a interventional cardiologist is a physician who performs a variety of invasive tests and procedures to assist in diagnoses of and treatment of cardiac disease.

Salary: $461,000 - $512,000

Education: To be a cardiologist you have to do 4 years of undergraduate school, 4 years of medical school, and 3 to 8 years of internship and residency, depending on the specialty selected. A few medical schools offer combined undergraduate and medical school programs that last 6 years to 8 years.

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

I don’t think I would like to be one because if something is wrong with the heart you will have to do a heart surgery and I’m not a person that likes to see an open body with blood inside it.