Tell Me How Career Planning DVD Series—Medical Technician

Host Melody Young visits a cardiac technician and learns about the career opportunities in medicine besides becoming a doctor or a nurse.
Subjects Covered Include:

What education is necessary to become a medical technician?
What courses are important?
What is an ultrasound?
Why do they use an ultrasound to see inside a person’s body?
Do ultrasound machines hurt?
What is a heart monitor?
Why do doctors use heart monitors on their patients?
Is science important to becoming a medical technician?
Where do medical technicians work?
What is anatomy?
How many chambers does a human heart have?
What is an echocardiagram?

12 min.