Military Medical Careers

Duties and Responsibilities: There are various different medical career options in military like nursing job, army physician, dental technician, flight nurse, medical specialist, and physician assistants. Each branch of the military has different needs. They are not confined to a hospital or medical office. For example a physician assistant provide primary or specialty medical are with the supervision of a physician. They obtain and evaluate medical histories as well.

Salary: Aerospace Med - $20,000

Anesthesiology - $36,000

Cardiology-$36,000.00

Emergency medicine: $26,000.00

General surgery- $29,000.00

Neurosurgery  - $36,000.00

Orthopedics    -$36,000.00

Psychiatry - $20,000.00

Radiology         $36,000.00

Education: First you have to graduate high school and earn a high school diploma and then get a bachelor’s degree in a science related field like biology or chemistry. Also you must attend medical school in which programs are usually about four years in length. You may obtain your license to practice in your state and the contact a military recruiter for the army, navy, or air force,

Reflection: I think I would like to become something in the military medical career because it caught my attention towards what they do.