How would you define this career? A dental hygienist is a licensed healthcare professional who collaborates with dentists to promote oral health and hygiene, aiming to prevent and treat dental and gum-related diseases.

What did you find most interesting about this career? I think the most interesting thing about this career is that you have to find your own patients.

What advice would you give someone who is interested in pursuing this career? My advice would be to do your research on dentistry to make sure that dental hygiene is for you.

An MRI Technician takes pictures of the inside of your body to detect internal conditions. What I’ve found most interesting is how the equipment works and what it can do to save lives early on.

Overall, I would describe this career as the perfect mix of nursing and being a physician. Like a nurse, you have way more patient care time than a doctor would and more autonomy, but less than you would have as a physician. Yet you still manage to do most of the things a physician can do and can do almost anything else under the supervision of one. What I found most interesting about this career, though it wasn’t one of your questions, was that you get a white coat as a PA, which I thought was just reserved for physicians. Advice that I would give someone who is interested in pursuing this career is to only join this field if they have passion for it because it’s too difficult, too much work, and too much time to commit to it just for money.

I would define this career as assisting in diagnosing patients through medical imaging such as x-rays, I find the fact that people in this field play a huge role in most major diagnosis to patients. Also the fact that you can complete a program and become certified or get a degree and become certified. I haven’t heard of many medical professions that require so little time. I would say to work hard and be sure you have a passion for helping people and working in a medical environment.

How would you define the career? I would say that this is a beautiful field to work in because of the lives that are being saved and fixed through people who actually care. What did you find most interesting about this career? I found how much schooling and experience that was required to be interesting. What advice would you give someone who is interested in pursuing this career? I would say just be passionate about it and have a strong love for animals.

In short, I would define this career as the combination of four core studies: biology, engineering, mechanics, and medicine which all work as a team in order to improve the quality of human life with technology. In all honesty, as a whole, I believe that this career is extremely interesting. I say this because it’s crazy how important technology has become when it comes to improving our society’s health issues. In fact, I think that it’s just a tad bit concerning about how much we rely on technology nowadays, but the fact that there are people who are able to combine all these different studies in order to create things super innovative is astonishing. Some advice I’d give to someone who wanted to pursue this career in the future would be that I hope you recognize the time and dedication that’s needed in order to do the things that biomedical engineers do, and if you don’t want to sacrifice your time, you don’t need to pursue this career.

A Vet assistant is someone who assists the doctor with surgery for an animal. They also sanitize everything down, set the table for surgery and also help restrain the animal before surgery. What I find most interesting about this profession is that it sounds like the assistant does more work than the doctor does. Advice I would give someone interested in this profession is that if you love animals this is the perfect career for you!

Physical Therapists help patients to regain mobility after an injury. The most exciting thing I found was that PTs aren’t required to complete residency (although it’s encouraged). My advice for someone who wishes to pursue a career in Physical Therapy would be to stay focused and attend a college with a good PT program.

A Medical Laboratory Technician- taking in biospecimen from patients to analyze it.

Certified Nurse Midwives provide care for women and families. They are knowledgeable and compassionate, care for childbearing women, newborn infants, and families across the continuum from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and the early weeks of life”. The advice I would give is to be ready to extend your education beyond 4 years because it requires extra school.