Medical Scientist

Duties and Responsibilities:

    A medical scientist is a person who tries to improve human health overall, through experiments and other investigation. They research heavily, and use investigative methods to find their solution. Some medical scientists, have little to no supervision when they are working on their hypothesis from their experiments. They either study the disease, or figure out the main factor causing the disease, to improve human health. In other cases, medical scientist work with drugs to figure out which one is either affective, treatable, or curable. Some medical scientists work on specific diseases, and work with a variation of medical drugs. So it varies what they are trying to find out.

Salary:

Medical scientists earn around $37.00 an hour. Annually they receive around $76,980.

Education:

There are many requirements to be a medical scientist. For instance, what is truly important in the beginning is a medical degree, or P.h.D. Luckily, there are many programs in universities and colleges that help a person get these needed requirements. Not all medical scientists are licensed. However, those that are licensed, are the ones that work with drugs, gene therapy, etc.

Reflection:

I would like to be a medical scientist as well. I had dreams of helping people find a treatment and it would just fascinate me.