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Career 911: Your Future Job in Medicine and Healthcare

45 classificações

Northwestern University

Career 911: Your Future Job in Medicine and Healthcare

45 classificações

This course aims to help high school students, recent graduates, and those considering career transitions explore health care career options and learn strategies for entry into the health care workforce and health related fields. There are lots of amazing job opportunities in medicine and healthcare! Join us, as we share the strategies and secrets for getting those jobs. This course will introduce you to healthcare professions, help you map a path towards a health career, and impart skills relevant for any career, including: articulating your personal story, resume and cover letter writing, job search, interviewing, professional networking, and professional communications. In this course, you will hear the personal stories, experiences, and journeys of dozens of people who work in health related careers. You will also have the opportunity to connect with a supportive community of students, mentors, and health care professionals to explore your interests, find resources, and discover exciting new opportunities. The course features more than 50 different guests and lecturers, including Northwestern University faculty from Feinberg School of Medicine; the Kellogg School of Management; the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; the School of Professional Studies; Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Communication. The course is also a resource and tool through which educators, parents, career counselors and others can support students’ career readiness and professional advancement.

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Day in the Life Snapshots

Healthcare professionals briefly describe what they do and introduce medical terminology

Day in the Life: Clinical Part 13:01

Day in the Life: Clinical Part 25:05

Day in the Life: Clinical Part 35:42

Day in the Life: Clinical Part 43:08

Day in the Life: Clinical Part 52:41

Day in the Life: STEM Part 15:32

Day in the Life: STEM Part 24:03

Day in the Life: Leadership4:26

Day in the Life: Policy5:11

Day in the Life: Public Health & Bioinformatics 4:13

Day in the Life: Military and Industry3:29

Day in the Life: Community Part 15:53

Day in the Life: Community Part 24:44

Day in the Life: Community Part 34:19

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Dr. Melissa A. Simon
George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology and Vice Chair of Clinical Research
Feinberg School of Medicine

[MUSIC]

This is Day in the Life,

part of a series of video showcasing the amazing diversity of health-related jobs.

In these interviews, we'll hear a little bit about what a day

in the life of a health professional may look like.

Social science careers have direct impact on health.

And as you will see in this video, when combined with laboratory science,

can create powerful impact on the health of populations.

[MUSIC]

>> Hi, I'm Thom McDade.

I'm a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University.

I'm a director of the Laboratory for

Human Biology Research, where we do research into health, social and

environmental factors affect human biology and health over life course.

Biological anthropology is interested in human bio,

biological variation, where we came from and what we,

what are species is like compared to other species and how our biologies function.

The lab here is called the Laboratory of Human Biology Research and

it's fundamentally dedicated to the development and

application of methods that allow us to study human biology and

health in diverse community based settings all around the world.

Stress matters to health and we've known that stress matters to health for

a long time.

But we, what we haven't known and

what's taken a lot of work to figure out is how it matters to health.

Most research on stress has asked people about sources of stress in their lives and

then has also asked them to report on levels of health, symptoms of disease,

lifestyle behaviors things like that.

And that work has been very important for

demonstrating the effects of stress on health.

But it can't get us under the skin.

In order to get under the skin, you have to collect blood or saliva or

other biological substances that allow us to measure bio markers of immune function

that may be related to stress.

So that requires us to innovate in terms of methods for sample collection.

Because we don't have access to a complete laboratory infrastructure in the places

we do our research, we don't have a centrifuge, we don't have freezers and

refrigerators.

What people may not want people approaching them with big needles and

jabbing them in their arm.

Many places we work, we don't even have electricity.

And for the past 15 years, we've turned to Guthrie cards or

filter papers that cost only a dollar or two, so very low cost.

We take the cards into the field and we use lancets, that are commonly used by

diabetics to monitor their blood sugar in the United States.

We nick the finger, get a few drops of blood apply them to the paper.

The paper draws the blood off the finger and then it dries.

And the process of drying the blood on the paper preserves it.

We can stack the card, the cards set them aside in a plastic bag and

then ship them back to the lab.

And we take a hole punch, and we punch out discs of blood.

Put them in a test tube with some buffer,

reconstitute the blood over night where we basically have made blood again.

And then, we pull out samples of blood and put them into our amino acid platform and

analyze them much as we would a venus blood sample.

The work that that we do in the lab is global.

We work in various populations all around the world, including the United States.

In the Philippines, we're working on a project looking at how environments early

in life, in infancy, affect biology and health later in life, in adulthood.

In Bolivia and Ecuador, we have projects looking at how market integration and

culture change affects health.

In Samoa,

we were looking at how this high level of stress associated with globalization,

rapid culture change was affecting the immune systems and health of adolescence.

In high school, I had no idea what anthropology is, was, I, it was not

offered in my high school, I didn't even know that it existed as a discipline.

But in college I almost by chance started to take some anthropology classes.

And it, it introduced me to a different way of thinking about health and

human growth and development.

And I thought it was fascinating.

>> [MUSIC]

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