Student Success Statement

"Let us have faith that right makes right, and in that faith let us to end dare to do our duty as we understand it"

- Abraham Lincoln 

Lincoln states how once you're doing right and you're on the right path, you put your faith at going at a right path.

Radiation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Radiation therapy technologists assist radiologists and oncologists (cancer specialists) in treating diseases by exposing areas of patients bodies ionizing radiation.  In addition to helping with treatments, technologists are responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping to maintain patient records. Radiation therapy is provided in hospitals, public health clinics, cancer treatment centers, and private offices.

Salary: $22,000- $36,000

Education: Students should take the most challenging science, math and english courses available in high school. Students can train to become a radiation therapist in either one or two year programs.  One year programs are often offered by hospitals.  To qualify for a one year program, an applicant must have graduated from an approved program in radiologic technology or been a nurse with education in radiation physics.  A high school diploma or a GED is required to enter two year courses. 

Student Success Statement

"The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self respect, 

dignity, integrity, and self-esteem."

 - Dr.Laura Schlessinger 

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior problems.Psychologists work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice.  They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, developmental, social, experimental, and industrial-organizational psychology.

Salary: $45,000- $65,000

Education: Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in English and science. Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams.

Student Success Statement 

"Right is right only when entire" 

- Victor Hugo

Student success statement

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased”

-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities: Psychiatrist are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness. Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include: 

• Designing treatment programs. 
• Conducting psychotherapy sessions.
• Prescribing potent mental illness drugs.
• Supervising electrotherapy treatments.
• Conducting research.
• Leading a team of mental health care providers.

Salary: $90,000-$200,000

Education: In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.