Neonatologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Neonatologists are people who specialize in medical help for newborns. These specific newborns are those who are prematured, or have a certain illness. A neonatologist job is to try to diagnose what illness the baby has and try to cure it. Some serious life threatning illness the baby suffers from is sometimes cure, sometimes through surgery procedure. Babies are treated if they are born with birth deffects. Sometimes a neonatologist is there to assist in delivering a baby. A neonatologist provides propper care and nutrition for ill newborns, to grow properly and have strength.

Salary:

Weekly $4,427 

Education:

In order to become a neonatologist, the person must attend a medical school. Only four years are required. After graduating medical school, three years of residency training in general pedriatics is needed. It is a second step closer to becoming a neonatologist. You then need to complete an extra of three years to finish training in newborn intesive care. As soon as those three years are over, you can get a certification from the American Board of Pedriatics and by the Sub-board of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine. Averagly it takes up to 10 years to become one.

Reflection:

I would like to be a neonatologist because my goal in life is to help someone, more specifally a baby. No baby needs to suffer through a lot and I want to help those babies in need. It is actually my second choice, behind a Cardiologist. I can relate to this because my brother wasn't born properly and a neonatologist saved his life. Maybe that's what I want to do, save innocent lives.