Medical IT Jobs: Ways to Help You Find a Job in this Field

Medical IT jobs utilize computer and digital technology in a medical facility. These jobs will include but not limited to electronic medical records, electronic coding, etc.

How to find a job in this field?
Medical IT jobs are exciting and challenging, at the same time. There are two ways to break into this field. One is to take the clinical side and the other one is to break through the IT side.

Transition from being a clinician to healthcare IT profession is the easier route. Keep in mind that clinical knowledge is vital in this field. Clinicians who are taking medical IT jobs want a new challenge in their lives where they can apply their clinical knowledge to process improvement. Or they are just seeking a new route to direct patient care.

When transitioning from being a clinician to this field, you will experience a sort of culture shock. The IT field is more rigid compared with the clinical environment. Clinicians are resistant to change. However, IT is all about change. Therefore, they have to adjust in order to fit into the environment of medical IT jobs.

From IT to health IT
The competition is stiff. Hence, it is more difficult to find a medical IT job if you do not have prior healthcare experience. To find your way in this field, you need to stand out ahead of the competition during the interview.

According to experts, you will thrive in this field if you are just willing to learn and are motivated. You also need to develop your ability to adapt to the changing needs of this environment.

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Semen Analysis: Three-Hour Experiment

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The evaluation of infertility cases and postvasectomy cases are the two primary reasons for semen analysis.

I still have a semi-vivid image in my mind when we had a three-hour experiment for semen analysis. The guys had to be absent for one subject because they needed to "concentrate"…if you know what I mean. True man or semi-man, he/half-he had to donate his sperm for semen analysis experiment.

While the men were "away," we, ladies, had to prepare the laboratory equipment for the said activity. And after maybe almost an hour of waiting, the guys arrived sweaty and, surprisingly, in high spirits.

Then, the fun began.

If I could accurately remember, the first thing we did was to sniff the chlorine type smell of the semen. (It wasn’t necessary, but we did it anyway.) And then we measured the volume (normal semen volume ranges between 2 and 5 ml) and its pH (normal is slightly alkaline); and determined its viscosity (normal viscosity will pour in droplets).

Looking at the sperm through the microscope is the most interesting part because we could really see the tadpole-like rapid movement of the sperm. In fertility cases, the actual number of sperm present, the motility of the sperm in a semen specimen, and the sperm's morphology are valid measurements.

We all know that there's only one (or sometimes two) sperm that can successfully penetrate the ovum, but the sperm count normal values are 20 to 160 million sperm per milliliter. Isn't it frustrating when you have countless sperms and only one could get in? (lol)

Furthermore, even though you have enough sperm count but the motility of your semen is not that aggressive, impregnating a woman will be formidable. One male classmate of mine had a grade 4 (excellent rapid movement). No wonder after a year, he's already a father.

And don’t ever think that having a handsome face is already enough because the face or the appearance of his sperm should also count in fertility case. It is essential for the guy's semen to have 70% to 99.9% good looking sperms, like this:

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However, the semen analysis is only a part of fertility test.

Well, that's all folks. We had an exciting three-hour laboratory experiment. Ciao.

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Nursing Versus Medical Technology

Nursing VS Medical Technology

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There were at least 90,000 examinees all over the Philippines who took the nursing licensure examination last weekend compared to only 1,329 examinees who took the medical technology licensure examination last September 2008.

Out of that 90,000, I am pretty sure a big percentage of examinees are already licensed medical technologists.

The demand of nurses abroad lured professionals to study nursing. Even medical doctors ceased practicing their profession to be nurses abroad…to earn greener pastures.

But the question is--"are we producing highly competent nursing professionals?"

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