People in medical research, please tell me about your career?

can you tell me about what you do, how you research in your particular field?


do you look up medical journals to conduct your research?


do you enjoy researching?


please tell me everything you can about it.





i want to get into biomedical science, and one of the career prospects is a medical researcher at a hospital or lab etc, so i just want to know what researching and being a researcher involves.





right now it sounds quite boring to me to be a researcher, i'm more of a hands on, practical person. so please help me understand researching as a career.





thanks

People in medical research, please tell me about your career?
Medical research covers a broad spectrum, but Edisons words regarding 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration are not too far off. To be successful in research you have to be willing to work hard and have some aptitude for Science. There are a lot of worker bees who run experiments and crunch data. A few folks, usually with masters degrees, MDs or PhDs get to plan the research and analyze the results. Running the experiemnts can be fun but it can be tedious. To make sure you have enough information to get a solid conclusion you may have to for instance run a test 100 times.





Any way you should look in classifieds for medical research to understand the variety of things required and job function.





Some folks in my company inject mice with a drug, sacrafice the animal and test the tissue to determine if the drug worked, others analyze the results, others maintain the animals, others do studies on sick humans and test their tissue (obviously without sacraficing the person), others train doctors and nurses on new medical devices or procedures that are part of a study.





Reading medical literature is an important part of medical research. If you can't learn from others work then you will be ineffective and not respected.