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Introduction
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SELECTING YOUR ROLE:

Review the roles listed to the right.

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REVIEW THE THREE ROLES LISTED BELOW AND SELECT YOUR ROLE
CLINICIAN
LAB PROFESSIONAL
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIAL


Your role is to provide and direct clinical care in the Emergency Department of a community hospital.

What does providing care for your patients entail?

Is it taking a history, performing a physical examination, ordering laboratory testing, and then treating this individual? Is there more?


Your role is to plan, design, and implement laboratory procedures to identify and quantify infectious agents that cause diseases in humans.

You direct the laboratory in a community hospital that is a tertiary referral center for surrounding towns. What does providing laboratory services entail?

Do you simply report morphology and reactivity of infectious agents via computer? Is there more?


You apply biological, chemical and public health principles to detect and control communicable diseases and environmental hazards.

You work in a very active health department of a medium-size municipality surrounded by farm land.

What does providing this service entail? Do you simply do routine inspections of restaurants and respond to an occasional food poisoning outbreak? Is there more?

START CASE AS PHO