- Name: Malik Corbin
- Position (job title), and where they are working: Mr. Corbin is a cardiovascular technologist at Southeastern hospital in North Carolina.
- Education (what degrees or certifications they have): He has a Certification in cardiovascular technology.
- What inspired him/her to get into that field: He wanted to get into a field where he could help other people but didn’t want to be too hands on.
- What was his/her path to his/her current job: He stated “nothing really” he just “looked for himself and what field he wanted to get into”.
- Basic roles and responsibilities: Mr. Corbin’s basic responsibilities are making sure he gets the correct image for the cardiologist and goes through the correct protocol.
- His/her favorite (or most rewarding) aspect about the job: Mr. Corbin’s favorite aspect about his job is meeting different people and being able to help them.
- What is the most surprising aspect of their career: The most surprising aspect of his career is seeing many different things like no functioning hearts become regular pumping hearts again.And also seeing the hearts go from 10% to 60%.
- What is the most challenging aspect of their career: The most challenging aspect of his career is having to do ultrasounds on people that are about to pass away.
- Advice he/she would give to someone getting into the health field: The advice Mr. Corbin gave was “ to be the best that you can be, stay focused, and use your mind.”
Something I have learned from this assignment is that it’s okay if you don’t know what you want to do with your life as soon as you enter or graduate college. I also learned that there really is a wide array of different jobs in the healthcare field.