Allergist/ Immunologist

Duties and Responsibilities:  A physician specially trained to diagnose, treat and manage allergies, asthma and immunologic disorders including primary immunodeficiency disorders. They also find the cause of allergic irritants that trigger immune response in the body.

Salary: $ 171,223 a year on average

Education: Allergists/immunologists must complete 4 years of premedical education at a college or university, followed by at least 4 years of medical school getting a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy degree.

 

Reflection:

I think that I don’t want to be an allergist/ immunologist because it seems that they deal with things that need lots of attention and eye for details that I do not have. I don’t think I would be able to tell the difference between a cold and asthma.