Name: __Max Evans_______

Career Research Guide Worksheet

Make sure you have completed the career exploration and have a good idea of the career that interests you!
Use point form or sentences. Make sure it is in our OWN words! Do not copy
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Your job title (be seci!ic": s#chiatrist
$ob overvie%&What the# do ('rovide a ara(rah descrition o! the job) What %ould a t#ical da# on the job
look like*":
+ t#ical da# in the li!e o! a s#chiatrist %ould be to (et a (eneral assessment (some ma# not have alread#
been assessed" o! #our atient) Which then #ou %ould assess them, and tr# to deduct %hat mental disorder or
condition the# are su!!erin( !rom and aid them throu(h the rocess %hich usuall# is done b# rescribin(
medication) +nd #ou do this %ith as man# atients #ou have on #our %ork load, till the# are cured, or %orst
case scenario #ou have to reort them to assumedl# a mental institution) -o conclude #ou assess atients aid,
and rescribe medication to better them)
Workin( conditions (.ours #ou can exect to %ork* Risk o! injuries* -ime o! da#&time o! #ear*
/ndoors&outdoors* Clothin( re0uired* Etc1": hours !or s#chiatr# are ver# demandin( and lon(, a lot usuall#
take on emer(enc# calls %hich can leave a even bi((er burden on their schedule) -o some and most it is ver#
stress!ul as some become enra(ed, sho% !ri(htenin( and violent behavior, cr# uncontrollabl#, some re!use or
such as autistic or catatonic atients revoke or disre(ard some o! the theraeutic methods rovided or
exlained) 2ome h#sical and mental ain can cause dee su!!erin(, and the s#chiatrist is to %itness there
ain) -he %ork environment o! the occuation can var# !rom institutions, their home, hositals and all some
are re0uired to move exedra) +nd !or clothin( it can be casual but !ormalit# is mostl# erused and looks better)
2alar# (%hat %a(e can #ou exect to earn*":
National +vera(e C3456,777
8uture outlook (%ill this job be in demand in the !uture* Wh#&%h# not*":
Not so much in demand, but not under9demand either, it:s ver# hi(h a#in( and a lot o! eole aren:t %illin( to
do the job as its extremel# tollin( to some, but on the contrar# a lot are)
Post-Secondary Institute!rainin" Pro"ram #$
;nder(raduate Medical Education (M)<)"
%ocation and name of pro"ram& (Where the school is located) What is the name o! the ro(ram* +lso tell us %h# this
school aeals to #ou"
U'(O Department of Psychiatry) *ancou+er) '( (anada *,! -.$) it appea/s to me 0ecause its con+enient/y
c/ose to 1e/owna) and it pro+ides a "ood education in that fie/d compared to others) and I am fami/iar with the
city it2s in.
(ost& (!irst #ear +N< total cost o! ro(ram, includin( tuition, books, and sulies"
/! lannin( on attendin( a major universit#: %%%)#ou)ubc)ca to calculate an aroximate cost
/! lannin( on attendin( a colle(e: %%%)okana(an)bc)ca&tuition to calculate an aroximate cost
Pre-re3uisites of pro"ram& need a .i(h school diloma o! 2ciences, =)7 on a >)7 G'+
What are ? related occuations #ou could take i! this one didn@t %ork out !or #ou (%hat %ould #ou do i! #ou
don@t end u doin( this career and %h#*":
Phyco/o"y) therapist)
+nd most imortantl#1
Wh# are #ou interested in this career* (.o% lon( have #ou been interested in it* What led #ou to %antin( this
job* .o% does it suit&!it #our ersonalit#, interests, characteristics, stren(ths, etc1*":
/:m interested in s#chiatr# as / like to hel the mentall# imaired, and /:m !ascinated b# the %a# there mind
%orks and %h# the# are and or think like that)