ANESTHESIOLOGIST

INTEREST

• Social interest are a major part of being in the medical realm of work.
• Working with hands-on work and real world materials.
• REQUIRES; an extensive amount of thinking, and problem solving.

BASIC SKILLS

• Active listening- taking time to listen and understand the patients problem.
• Reading comprehension- understanding work related documents.
• Monitoring- assesing other individuals performance.
• Critical thinking
• judgement and decision making

IMPORTANT SKILLS

• Problem sensitivity- ability to tell when something is wrong
• Oral comprehension- listen and understand ideas presented
• Deductive resoning- applying general rules to a specific problem.
• Inductive resoning- the ability to combine general rules to conclusions.
• Near vision

MOST IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE AREAS

• Medicine and dentistry
• Biology
• English language
• Customer and personal service
• Chemistry

TYPICAL TASK

• Administer anesthetic or sedation to a patient
• Monitor the process; before, during and after sedation
• Record the type and amount of anesthesia given to the patient
• Examine the patient & check medical history
• Order labratory tests and X-rays

COMMON WORK ACTIVITIES

• Assisting or caring for others
• Documenting or recording patient information
• Making decisions/Problem solving
• Inspecting equiptment
• Working directly with the public

RELATED OCCUPATIONS

• Dentistry
• Pharmacist
• Respiratory Therapist
• Physician
• Physician assistant

WAGES

• Indiana's Average; $166,400
• National average; $220,100
• Highest average; Colorado with $247,040
• Lowest average; Utah with $148,940

REASON I CHOSE THIS CAREER

• Cash flowwwww #turnup
• Secondly, I enjoy working with people.
• Working hands on in the medical field.

TO PREPARE

• Stop slacking in school
• Take C4 classes next year
• Take BioMed classes A$AP

QUESTIONS?