Oncologist
Duties
and Responsibility: Typical
job duties include making cancer diagnoses, keeping records of patients' test
results and physical examinations, writing prescriptions, providing specific
cancer information to patients, monitoring treatment plans and improving
patients' quality of life. Medical oncologists explain cancer development
stages to patients discuss treatment options and assist in pain management.
They care for patients throughout the entire course of cancer treatment, from
diagnosis to recovery or death.
Salary:
$ 217,856
Education:
Medical oncologists have
typically completed an internal medicine residency after graduating from
medical school, followed by an oncology fellowship. They may choose to earn
board certification to show that they are professionally competent as
oncologists. Medical oncologists coordinate a course of treatment for cancer
patients with the rest of their oncology team, which can include nurses,
physician assistants, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, dietitians,
radiologists, surgeons and pathologists. They prescribe various types of
treatment, such as chemotherapy, medications and hormones.