Medical Scientist

Duties and Responsibilities: The purpose of the medical scientist job duties is to discover new methods of enhancing human health. The end result of these procedures and research is to come up with new treatment options, drugs, and vaccines. The medical scientists perform research on specimens, such as bacteria and viruses then regularly perform reviews, clinical investigations and write technical reports during this research process. The medical scientists that run a clinical trial have to interview patients and go through their medical history. Afterwards they decided which patient to go into what testing group and one group is typically offered the medication while the other is offered a placebo. However this is not always the case and medical scientist observes any change in their health and behavior then they have to report about it.

Salary: $76,980

Education: The educational goal for a medical scientist is typically a doctor of philosophy in biological sciences although some medical scientist choose to get a medical degree such as the doctor of medicine instead. Before this they acquire an undergraduate education by attaining a bachelor’s degree in biology or in a medical health related major. Medical scientist that work with patients have to be licensed doctors. The physician licensure requires that a medical scientist has completed one to seven years of medical schooling at the graduate level with a medical school accredited by an officially recognized organization. Additionally an examination must be passed by the medical scientist for the licensure medical scientists also must be shift effortlessly from working in a team setting to independently. This requires the ability to effectively communicate with writing and speech.