May Student of the Month 2011
Student of the Month
Christina Schuler
Mrs. Salussolia
Consumer Science
26 May 2011
The Perfect Match: Christina Schuler and Pediatric Neurology
The brain is a spectacular thing. The brain controls thought, movement, speech, and everything else. It is truly outstanding how bodies can write without even saying to themselves, “Open hand. Put hand on pencil, close hand, and write.” The body just picks up the pencil and writes. The child’s brain is even more amazing. Children instinctively grow, develop, and learn to walk, talk, and do all other things. Studying children’s brains would be such a great experience. Therefore, my dream career is a pediatric neurologist. Pediatric neurologists take x-rays of children’s brains. They study diseases in children, such as seizures. That is something I am willing to spend my whole life doing.
To begin, many of my surveys point in the direction of helping. To start, I have interests in scientific TV shows, helping, science class, and language arts. Neurology requires a major in sciences. Also, neurologists have to help others and write conclusions. In addition, faith, control, responsibility, trust, respect, and problem-solving are important to me. In this career, doctors have to respect and trust other doctors, control their assistants, and have faith that everything will work out. Also, I am skilled in responsibility, leadership, teamwork, writing, and problem-solving. As a neurologist, I will have to be responsible about dates and schedules, I will have to be a leader to other doctors, write conclusions about my research, and find solutions for brain disease. To add, I have a general learning ability, and I have a verbal ability. In my job, the abilities to learn and understand information on the spot and communicate hypotheses and conclusions are musts. Finally, I have a helper and a thinker personality. In Neurology, I have to help doctors and think about answers to illnesses in the brain. To conclude, my five surveys lead me to believe that I meant to be a pediatric neurologist.
In addition, much training and education is required to be a pediatric neurologist. To start, pediatric neurologists need to major in premedicine or a science-based major. Pediatric neurologists also need a four year undergraduate degree and a four year medical degree. According to eHow, I would need to complete a three to four year residency in neurology. First, I would have a one year internship to become a board certified doctor. Next, I would have to have a one year residency in internal medicine. Then, I would work one year in pediatrics. I would be trained to treat inpatient and outpatient pediatric cases. After that, I could be a pediatric neurologist. In short, over a period of twelve years, I could become a pediatric neurologist.
Finally, classes, activities, and experiences will pave a path to pediatric neurology. To start, in middle school, I will take classes such as chemistry, health, nutrition, English, biology, physics, and math, and participate in first aid courses, read books about the brain, and visit a museum to learn about the human body and brain. Also, in high school, I will take honors physics, anatomy, honors biology, and psychology, be involved in science clubs, and visit a neurologist to see what they do. During my middle school and high school years, I will volunteer at a hospital reading to children, and I will get a babysitting job. After high school, I will volunteer at a hospital helping the elderly and I will work at a daycare. In addition, to reach my career goal as a pediatric neurologist, my short term goals are to read books about the brain, take a first aid course, volunteer at a hospital, and get good grades in all of my classes, especially the ones that set me on the path to my career. My medium term goals are to get a Bachelor’s degree, major in science in college, complete a one year internship, and become a board certified doctor. A long term goal that leads to pediatric neurology is to complete a one year residency each in internal medicine, neurology, and pediatrics. To summarize, all of these goals, classes, activities, and experiences will point me in the direction of pediatric neurology.
In conclusion, pediatric neurology is a wonderful job. Fortunately, all of my inventories point me in the direction of this occupation. Also, the twelve years of education and training needed for this line of work are things I am willing to spend my whole life doing. Finally, I have class, activity, and experience goals that send my in the direction of neurology. Soon, this spectacular, outstanding, controlling thing, called the child’s brain, can be all mine to research and test.