Careers Assignment

By: Hannah Rahim

Pediatrician• A doctor who deals with infants, children and adolescents • Reduce infant and child mortality, control infectious

disease, foster healthy lifestyles and ease the difficulties of children and adolescents with chronic conditions

• Treat infections, injuries, genetic defects, organic diseases and dysfunctions

• Pediatricians also aid with emotional difficulties • Pediatrics is a collaborative specialty

• To become a pediatrician you must have 4 years of undergraduate degree in college, 4 years of medical school and at least three years of an internship and residency

• Pediatric residency training emphasizes care of the whole infant, child, adolescent, and young adult.

• Pediatricians work 50 hours a week, but are also on call outside of office hours

• Pediatricians make about $300,000 per year

Piano teacher/coach:• Side job • Charge $20 an hour - work about 5 hrs a week (approx

$5,000 per year) • Work out of my home • To become piano teacher through RCM: complete grade

9 and 10 piano, do Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced ARCT in piano pedagogy, complete Basic, Intermediate and Advanced harmony, do Intermediate and Advanced History, counterpoint, and analysis

• Possibly I could become a coach instead of a teacher – aid students who already have a teacher, with their pieces and technique

• Example of piano teacher is Aline Banno – my teacher

Skills required for being a pediatrician and piano teacher• Intelligence

• Social Perceptiveness

• Writing • Critical Thinking• Instructing• Active Listening• Writing• Service

Orientation• Time

Management• Mathematics• Active Learning• Complex

Problem Solving• Judgment and

Decision Making

• Reading Comprehension• Speaking• Science• Focus • Effort • Playing the piano • Composition/melody writing • Oral Expression• Deductive Reasoning• Problem Sensitivity• Inductive Reasoning• Oral Comprehension• Simplifying information and explaining

Why I would be well suited for this career

• Suited to be a doctor as I can be empathetic towards others

• Hardworking and put my full effort into everything• Science is one of my stronger points• Detail-oriented • Want to make sure people stay healthy• Can be a piano teacher as I play piano and

understand music and theory• I can explain things well to children • Can find creative solutions

What interests me about this career

• Enjoy working with children• Am interested in science and medicine • Enjoy expressing myself through music• Desire to help people in need• Pays well • A challenge

Bibliography • Age. "Becoming a Pediatrician." About Pediatrics - Pediatric Parenting and

Medical Advice. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <http://pediatrics.about.com/od/becomingapediatrician/Becoming_a_Pediatrician.htm>.

• "Becoming a Pediatrician." ABCs of Parenting from YourPediatrician.com, Inc.. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <http://www.yourpediatrician.com/BecomingAPed.htm>.

• "How to Become a Pediatrician: 10 steps - wikiHow." wikiHow - The How-to Manual That You Can Edit. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Pediatrician>.

• "Pediatrics, Pediatric, Paediatrics, Paediatric, General Pediatrics, Pediatric Education, Paediatric Education: GeneralPediatrics.com." Pediatrics, Pediatric, Paediatrics, Paediatric, General Pediatrics, Pediatric Education, Paediatric Education: GeneralPediatrics.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <http://www.generalpediatrics.com/>.

• "Physican, Pediatrician ." Office of Science Education . N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <http://science.education.nih.gov/lifeworks.nsf/alphabetical+list/Physician,+Pediatrician >.

• Piano syllabus: the Royal Conservatory of Music official examination syllabus : RCM examinations and the National Music Certificate Program.. 2008 ed. Mississauga, Ont.: F. Harris Music, 2008. Print.

• "What is a Pediatrition?." University of Maryland - Children's Hospital. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2012. <www.umm.edu/pediatrics/pediatrician.htm >.

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