Career Plan Medical Doctor

Overview

For becoming an anesthesiologist, it is necessary to have a bachelor's degree and a minimum of eight years of work after being a post-graduate (Meier). Certain different operations require different procedures to be followed for sedation, and in-depth knowledge of these processes is essential for becoming an anesthesiologist. The program would include medical schooling, internship, and a mandatory residency. The state where the anesthesiologist student resides requires him to have a medical license granted to him if he completes the entire three mentioned program prerequisites.

The pre-med curriculum is completed before entering medical school. The general outline of the program's specialties is instructed in the medical school. This training module is valuable for this field since getting familiar with different sedation techniques becomes easier.

After the end of medical school, an internship is required for practicing the learned skills in school. Surgery, general medicine, and pediatrics expertise for anesthesia are learned during the internship program. This is followed by the three-year residency program where students spend a year or two learning specialties in anesthesiology. Various options are presented to the student to choose an anesthesia expert for neurology, pediatric, cardiac, etc.

professions. The major step of all is to pass an anesthesiology examination from the American Board to become a certified anesthesia expert. Along with these certifications, there are personal qualifications required as well such as collaboration with the doctor as the patient to keep the side effects of the anesthesia away from the patient, communication and interpersonal skills for being supportive towards the patient and interacting with him, physical stamina and manual prowess for application of knowledge and technical skills of anesthesia even under pressure, and decision making and judgment abilities for managing patients and their problems effectively (Greenwood).

The proposed vision statement regarding my career goal would be as follows:

"I will be a physician anesthesiologist working for an obstetrician hospital by the time I am or older."

The four goals and their respective steps required to accomplish my vision are as follows:

• Goal 1: I will fulfill all the prerequisites of being a physician anesthesiologist with no lower grade A- by Summer 2021.
• Step 1:
  Entering a pre-med degree program with biology, chemistry, health science, and physical science ("What Should I Major In").
• Step 2:
  Taking a 4-year medical degree program to pursue being an anesthesiologist.
• Step 3:
  Studying traditional courses and doing relevant lab work in anatomy, medical ethics,

Steps and further details follow in the document’s content under the Career Plan and Medical Doctoring sections.

Besides academic training, the role includes responsibilities such as patient collaboration with the doctor to manage anesthesia side effects, ensuring patient safety, and managing post-operation pain as the anesthesiologist’s role extends beyond the operation theatre. The ethical necessities of this profession entail provision of medical assistance with care, compassion, and human dignity, keeping up with the standards of this profession with a composed character and competence, observance of law and showing a responsible behavior towards patient’s interests, respecting the rights of patients, coworkers and other health specialists under privacy, maintaining a commitment towards medical education and making relevant information available to the patients (American Society of Anesthesiologists).

The anesthesia expert’s ethical responsibility is to include patients, even the minors, in the decision-making process as it is imperative for their mental and physical stability and health. Keeping their information confidential is another ethical concern since the anesthetic technique's valuation is based on this knowledge. There is even a moral responsibility towards the colleagues to maintain a supportive and reverent relationship for fulfilling operation theatre duties.