Ever thought about becoming a doctor?
In thinking about being a doctor you need to work hard at your studies, as becoming a doctor requires more training than most other jobs. If you want to become a doctor, you should be someone who likes to help people.
Doctors are good at:
- Science for the testing they do;
- English for the history they take when talking to patients; and
- Maths, too.
They use:
- areas of Science, English and Maths everyday when they examine patients and try to help them;
- use their English skills when they take a medical history, look at a patient’s medical records and to talk to them about their health problems;
- use basic diagnostic (testing) devices such as tongue depressors and stethoscopes and may also do more in-depth testing before they make a diagnosis. This is where they use their knowledge of Science and their Maths skills to problem solve and find out what is wrong.
“Vital Signs” are checked when Doctors examine a patient. These are things like the patient’s height, weight, body temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration (breathing) rate and general appearance.