Do You Want to Become a Doctor??

Steps to Becoming a Doctor (M.D., Doctor of Medicine)

1. Be accepted into a 4 year BS program (Bachelor of Science) and graduate!
2. (4 years)Major in pre-med, biology, or biochemistry (main options)
3. Pass the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and apply to medical school.
4. Attend and graduate from medical school (4 years)
5. Pass Parts I and II of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)
6. Apply for and match with residency
7. Graduate from medical school and start residency (usually 3 years)
8. Pass part III of the USMLE and finish residency
9. Earn board certifications
10. Get a state license

MD Resources to Check Out!

• How to Become a Doctor: https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/doctor/ 
• United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE): https://www.usmle.org/ 
• The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS): https://www.abms.org/ 
• The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM): https://www.theabfm.org/ 

Do You Want to Become a Nurse??

Steps to Becoming a Nurse Practitioner (NP)

1. Be accepted into a 4 year BSN program (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) and graduate!
2. Study for and pass the NCLEX (National Council Licensure Examination), becoming a Registered Nurse (RN).
3. Complete an NP focused graduate M.S. or doctoral nursing program.
4. Study for and pass the NP board certification exam (check out AANPCB)

NP Resources to Check Out!

• American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP): https://www.aanp.org/news-feed/explore-the-variety-of-career-paths-for-nurse-practitioners
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB): https://www.aanpcert.org/index

The Research Steps: The Inquiry Process

Define the Subject

a) If your topic is not assigned, start exploring class discussions or click here for prompts.

b) Research as inquiry: Explore topic areas and start formulating questions.

• Once you define your subject, learn more about it, gather keywords, take notes using facts to gain knowledge. Getting background information and prior knowledge will also help you in further refining your topics. 
• You can begin your research with an online encyclopedia such as Grolier and Britannica (General databases), both of which provide background information, keywords, links to other sources, and subtopics. 

Read other opinions about your subject

•  For a book report, you may read a literature review to broaden your perspective. Databases such as Gale, Opposing Viewpoints offer articles writen by specialists on your topic.

Narrowing the Topic

Recommended for Research

Below are some online sites recommended for student research. Please use Google to locate these search engines online. We hope you find this information valuable!

Sweetsearch"allows students to choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, without the distraction of unreliable sites."

VirtualLRC   The Virtual Library Resource Center was created by teachers and librarians to provide the best academic web results.

Google Scholar  Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Disinformation

What are the alarming effects of disinformation?

Essential Questions:

• What have been the dangers of disinformation that we have faced on social media during COVID and the presidential elections?
• What drives disinformation? 
• Why do people disseminate disinformation?
• What are the potential dangers of new technologies?

The Capitol riots and insurrection demonstrate the real dangers of disinformation.

#TruthWins #FactsMatter

Vocabulary:

• Misinformation: False or inaccurate information that is communicated regardless of an intention to deceive. Examples of misinformation are false rumors, insults, and pranks.
• Disinformation: False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.
• Fake News: False or misleading information presented as news
• Infodemic: An excessive amount of information about a problem that is typically unreliable, spreads rapidly, and makes a solution more difficult to achieve.
• Deepfakes: Media that take people in an existing image or video and replaces them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks,. 

How does Digital Media Try to Hook You?

What Can You Do About It?

Questions:

Sometimes when you are on your phone, it's hard to stop.

People even talk about addiction to phones.

How many hours do you spend on your phone? Are you spending too much time? 

Moreover, is digital media actually designed to get you hooked? (addicted) 

Essential Questions:

Is your phone helping you or hurting you?

Are there ways to develop healthy digital media habits and find a good balance?

Using Google Slides, create a presentation where you select your three favorite Apps that you spend a lot of time using.

Think about their different features, make a list of their benefits and their pitfalls.

Do they have addictive features?

Lastly, do these Apps help you or do they prevent you from having a healthy balanced life?

Step One:

First select your 3 favorite Apps.

Step Two:

Then create your slides:

 Slide 1: Create a title about your favorite Apps on your phone, your name and your classroom period with Mr. Ramie

 Slide 2: Name App #1, its benefits, purpose and pitfalls

 Slide 3: Name App #2, its benefits, purpose and pitfalls

 Slide 4: Name App #3, its benefits, purpose and pitfalls

 Slide 5: Which App do you think is addictive and why? Is the design addictive? (notifications, alerts, messages)

 Slide 6: Assess at least three ways to find a healthy media balance

Slide 7: When is it a behavioral disorder? List 3 examples(texting while driving,obsessive behavior, like checking your phone all the time.)

 Share your Google Slide presentation with Mr. Ramie at:  DRamie@ercsd.org