Michele Said:

Job descriptions for ultrasound, medical assistant, and x-ray/radiology?

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I can't give you much info on medical assistant, but I am a RT and sonographer....

There are many schools in many states where you can get trained to be a radiologic technologist (the proper term for a x-ray tech). Before you can attend a RT program, you will need to attend and complete certain college level prerequisite courses. I spent 1.5 years at my local community college, then went to a RT program. You can attend a hospital based program (and earn a certificate), a 2 year college program (AS degree), and even a 4 year college program (BS degree). The hospital based programs are the least expensive, and honestly, I think the education received there is superior. Once you graduate and take your registry exam, no future employer is going to care what type of educational program you went through. All they care about is your license. You can find an accredited RT program at this site. Just search "radiography" and your state...links are provided which will give you additional information on each program (cost, duration of program, contact person):

http://www.jrcert.org/cert/Search.jsp

RTs do more than just x-rays of bones. We do fluoroscopy studies (involving the intestinal tract and barium), arthrograms (assisting the radiologist with injecting contrast or dye into joints for evaluation) and myelograms (assisting the radiologist with injecting contrast into the spinal canal). If you work in a hospital setting, you will do portable exams in ICU, CCU, the ER and even surgery. Some RTs take x-rays in the morgue.

Most RTs will also become proficient and licensed in other modalities, such as mammography, CT and/or MRI. This training does not require any additional formal training, and is usually learned on the job. The more licenses you have, the more money you can make, as you will be in higher demand. With additional schooling, you can also do ultrasound.

Well, I work in a free standing imaging center. My office is only open M-F, 8:00-5:00. No weekends, nights or call work. In a hospital, most imaging departments are staffed 24 hours a day. You could be scheduled to work nights, PM shifts, weekends, holidays....anytime really!

I highly recommend you do an observation in both a hospital imaging department and a free standing imaging facility. Until you see what RTs do, you won't know if it is the job for you! It would also give you a wonderful opportunity to talk to RTs in your area. Best wishes.....

Oh, another good resource....check out the student area of the ASRT website:

https://www.asrt.org/Content/educators/_…

And the ARRT:

http://www.arrt.org/index.html?content=h…

For ultrasound:

When thinking about entering an ultrasound program, you need not be concerned so much about certificate vs. degree. What is important is that you go to an ACCREDITED program, whether it is college or hospital based. An accredited program allows you to take your registry (licensing) exams upon graduation. Once you get licensed, you will never be asked about your schooling again. An employer does not care what route you take to get licensed, they just want you to have that license.

Don't waste your time or money on a NON-accredited program. Upon completion and graduation from a NON-accredited program, you must work in the field of sonography for a full year prior to taking your licensing examinations. But, you will have a hard time finding an employer to hire you, unless you are licensed.

I would suggest you observe an imaging department to get an idea of what ultrasonographers do daily. There is much more to it than scanning pregnant women. Most people have no idea how much is involved in this career! Ultrasound definitely entails more than just scanning pregnant women. We can also image the salivary glands, thyroid, carotid vessels of the neck, breasts, pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts, spleen, kidneys, urinary bladder, uterus, ovaries, testicles, prostate gland, aorta and vena cava, large arteries and veins in the arms and legs....have I missed anything? We can also ultrasound a palpable lump (one that can be felt from the outside of the body) which is located anywhere on the body. We can do ultrasound on newborn's stomachs to look for pyloric stenosis or the hips to look for dislocation.

Sonographers also assist the radiologist with more invasive procedures. We do amniocentesis (using ultrasound to guide a needle into the pregnant uterus to remove fluid for testing), paracentisis (needle into abdomen to remove fluids for testing) and thoracentsis (needle into lungs to remove fluid). We assist the radiologist with ultrasound guided biopsies (breast, thyroid and liver). We assist the radiologist with hysterosonography (putting saline solution into the uterus to image the endometrial canal). We do some ultrasounds transabdominally (the transducer or camera outside the body), and oth

Leslie Said:

How cani find medical job descriptions and rate of pay?

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Want to wear scrubs? Go buy yourself some scrubs -- you don't have to be in medicine to wear scrubs. On the other hand, if you really want to work in the medical field, you'll just have to learn to deal with blood. End of story.

Ralph Said:

What the medical billing and coding job description?

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There may be some data entry involved with a billing job and even talking with some insurance companies and perhaps even doctors, however, unfortunately, there are NOT supposed to be too many jobs for medical billing and/or coding (or medical assistant) these days. The field is saturated, in part, due to so many schools offering the program.

If you're still interested in training, please forgo those private overly priced For-profit schools such as pima institute, anthem, sanford brown, argosy, heald, concorde career, brown mackie and others as they are merely out to "make a profit" (** and course credits may NOT transfer to other schools).

Please instead consider the more affordable community college or county vo-tech school as long as the program is accredited within the industry.

US colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

General career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search 'bill and account collectors', 'medical records and health information technicians' (coding is briefly mentioned) or such.

Leslie Said:

medical/clinical toxicologist job description and salary?

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Toxicologists may perform the following tasks:

-study the amount of exposure to a substance (e.g. from pollution caused by environmental contaminants such as industrial waste products or emergency events such as a gas leak) and the potential effect it may have on public health, plants, animals and/or the ecosystem
-study the genetic, chemical, physical and structural composition of cells, tissues and organisms
-devise and carry out experiments to determine how drug concentrations in the body change over time and test newly discovered or manufactured substances for their safety, activity and possible use as drugs
-analyse biological and environmental samples to identify the chemical composition of narcotics, drugs, contaminants and other substances in blood, urine or other biological and environmental samples to determine the levels of concentration
-evaluate evidence from cases where tampering and contamination has occurred
-write scientific reports on research, investigations and more general information for scientific, managerial, political and general audiences
document results, preserve evidence and maintain chain of custody (the document or paper trail showing the process of evidence seizure through to the presentation of the evidence in court) in criminal investigations
-provide advice to managers, politicians, primary producers, health care workers and the general public.

Income of persons working full-time, 2006
TOXICOLOGISTS

Income per Week Number Share (%)
$1000 or more 2,586 62.4
$400 - $599 190 4.6
$600 - $799 463 11.2
$800 - $999 824 19.9
Less than $400 80 1.9


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This information is based on the 2006 census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Earnings of persons working full-time and part-time, 2006
Life Scientists

Employment Status Weekly Income ($)
Full-time 1,339
Part-time 611

Jonathan Said:

information on job descriptions for medical office manager?

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For a general career description: www.bls.gov/oco and type into search 'medical office manager' or 'office manager'.

There are schools that offer programs such as 'medical office administration' or 'medical administrative assistant' which may give the person the skills to help run a medical/doctor's office. If looking for a school, please try to find a less expensive program such as thru the local community college (perhaps non-credit course) or county vo-tech school as opposed to those private schools. And please stay away from those 'online schools' such as penn foster and stratford career as employers don't find them to be reputable. Just fyi, if you were considering attending a program for medical assistant, I've heard here and on other boards that there are not too many job openings (as well as medical billers and coders).

Marshall Said:

I can't find any good sights on the job description on a medical malpractice attorneys?

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how about googling "what does a medical malpractice attorney do?"

search engines are so simple if you just ask them what you want to know:)