What happens in your job

Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 5 Jul 2023:

I lecture to as many as 500 students during a semester at a university. I also work in the lab to find solutions to different sorts of infectious agents such as bacteria. I work on bacteria that cause pneumonia, food poisoning and stomach cancer. I am finding ways by which we can treat different infections and save lives of people around the world.

Caroline Addey answered on 5 Jul 2023:

My job is all about helping the right people to get together from my organisation and others in the health sector nationally and internationally get together and work on improving public health / patient outcomes and making access to new and safe medicines easier.

Blair Johnston answered on 5 Jul 2023:

It is really variable. I tried to summarise some of the things I do in my profile but so far today I’ve performed some image analysis, scanned a patient using functional MRI (where they perform a task in the MRI scanner and we can see their brain activity) and I have had a team meeting.

Hannah Scholes answered on 5 Jul 2023:

My job is to test blood samples from patients in the hospital and from GP surgeries and provide results which help doctors to diagnose and treat their patients. I look at the different cells within blood in the haematology lab, and can see how well your liver and kidneys and other organs are working in the biochemistry lab. The other part of my job is working in blood bank (blood transfusion) to provide blood to patients who need it, either due to trauma in A&E or if they are having an operation, and for the air ambulance/helimed crews to take with them on emergency calls.

Sophie Shaw answered on 5 Jul 2023:

I write computer programmes which analyse the data that you get after sequencing DNA. This identifies differences in the DNA which might be the cause of a genetic disease or cancer. You can read more about my job in my bio!

Cheryl Williams answered on 5 Jul 2023: last edited 5 Jul 2023 6:43 pm

From start to end: if you went to see your doctor with a sore throat maybe, the doctor may take a swab from the back of your throat to check you don’t have a bacterial infection. The swab is sent to my lab at the hospital, and swabbed onto an agar plate. This plate is incubated at 37C overnight in order to grow bacteria so it is visible to the naked eye. I would do more tests to identify the type of bacteria, and if it is one that causes an infection, I would then do tests to see which antibiotics would work against it. These results are reported back to your doctor, who would treat you with the correct antibiotics.

Simon Anderson answered on 6 Jul 2023:

The main part of my job is looking after patients that have pacemakers, devices stopping your heart beat going to slowly, to ensure that the device is working well and that the patient is not having any other problems.

Other than this I am involved in various diagnostic tests on the heart, so provide information to doctors so that they can try and understand the problems somebody may be having. These include heart traces, heart monitors, blood pressure monitor and exercise tests.

Away from my patient facing work we have a number of students in the department who I help to teach and assess.

Paulo Fernandes answered on 7 Jul 2023:

In my job I go to the lab to do experiments and I also write forms that explains with the new medicine that we developed in my job is good to help patients

Chigozie Onuba answered on 9 Jul 2023:

My profession is a diagnostic service and it involves analysing blood and other body fluids to find out why a patient is feeling unwell. My job also has to do with monitoring the effectiveness of treatment and preventation of disease. We also do research work

Charlotte Ritson answered on 10 Jul 2023:

My job is to help doctors and nurses run clinical trials – these are tests on patients who have volunteered to try out new medications. I also keep an eye on the data they collect and help to make sure all of the patients are safe.

Dan Brunsdon answered on 10 Jul 2023:

My job now actually still involves a lot of talking to people but thankfully in less difficult circumstances! I’m working with involving patients and members of the public in research, specifically at the moment focussed on cancer research. I think in order for the kind of things we study and recommend as scientists to be meaningful to people’s every day lives we need to be talking to them all through-out the research process and including them as much as we can. This can change the way we do everything from making sure the questions we’re asking are actually relevant to people’s lives and that the solutions to problems we find can actually be used effectively to help people. It’s what makes things like I’m A Scientist so great, we can all be getting more involved with science and when we do it becomes much better and inclusive!

Kip Heath answered on 16 Jul 2023:

My job is about supporting 8 departments to get their external accreditation (think Ofsted but for hospital departments) and helping 800 scientists get the training and development opportunities they need.

Clare Morrow answered on 24 Jul 2023:

I test blood samples that come into the hospital labs to help the doctors work out what is wrong with you. I also cover quality areas to ensure that they are accurate

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