Cardiologist       

Duties and responsibilities:

Cardiologists are also called for assistance in hospital settings when a patient has a heart attack, serious arrhythmia or heart failure. As they are seldom the first physicians to see a patient, cardiologists must quickly review the patient's medical history and ask questions regarding symptoms.

Salary:

Cardiologists who did not perform invasive procedures earned between $346,266 and $457,921 per year. Those who did perform invasive procedures had a salary range of $373,500 to $532,000.

Education:

In order to become a cardiologist must graduate from medical school, complete a residency and become board-certified in internal medicine, and then complete a fellowship in cardiology. Cardiology residencies typically last three years, and fellowships are a minimum of three years, making at least six years of training beyond medical school.

       

Reflection:

I wouldn’t like to be a cardiologist because the medicine subject isn’t my thing. I wouldn’t like to perform such things to the heart. Cardiologists are important for they in a way help out one of my relatives. They have high blood pressure so they must always be checking up on their heart rate of all sorts.