Oncology

BY Ashna Parikh

Future Medical Professionals President

2017-2018

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Oncology: The Study of Cancer

Being an Oncologist carries a heavy weight. Patients are in critical condition, and doctors are often faced with countless numbers of deaths within practicing.

Watch the video on the next slide to see if Oncology is the right field for you.

Is ONCOLOGY the right field for you?

The meaning of Oncology

Schooling

Schooling:

• University 4 years
• Medical school 4 years
• 3 years of internal medicine residency
• 3 years of Oncology fellowship
• (+2-3 years of surgeon residency/fellowship for cardiovascular surgeon, pulmonary surgeon, or gasterenology surgeon)

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This field is among the top percentage of growing research and career paths for medicine, because of the increase of research for curing cancer.

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Different Career Options Within ONCOLOGY

• Administration/Operations (accounting, compliance, human resources, IT, marketing, practice management)
• Clinical and Nursing Support (medical assistants and other clinical support staff)
• Clinical Research (research coordinators, registered nurses, assistants and regulatory affairs)
• Laboratory (lab techs and medical technologists)
• Medical Records
• Nursing
• Pharmacy (admixture technicians and pharmacists)
• Pulmonary/Sleep Medicine (respiratory therapists, polysomnographic techs)
• Radiation (radiation techs, dosimetrists, nuclear medicine, PET technologists, physicists, radiation therapists)
• Revenue Cycle/Front Office (insurance specialists, managed care, patient benefits representatives, patient services coordinators, pre-service coordinators, telephone operators and other)

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Patient Profile: CCCN

CCCN:

Comprehensive

Cancer

Centers of

Nevada

Doctor featured in the commercial was Dr. Parikh