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I want to be an Epileptologist and I am doing research to further my knowledge about the career
Wed, 10/10/2012 - 13:15
1) How did you get the position you have?
2) How hard was it to find a job after getting your degree?
3) Do you have any classes or training you have to attend now that you are an Epileptologist? If so how often?
4) What is your usual work day like?
5) What is your favorite part of your job? Why?
6) If you could change one thing about your job what would it be?
Just so you don't think I'm just using this website for research I want you to know I was diagnosed with J.M.E in January and that is why I chose my intended major.
Epileptologists Searching For Clues From Their Elders
Submitted by 3Hours2Live on Fri, 2012-10-12 - 17:20
Maybe it's OK to post Google's review of "How Proust Can Improve Your Practice of Epileptology" at: http://books.google.com/books/about/How_Proust_Can_Improve_Your_Practice_of.html?id=1fNVzC6Dv-8C quote: How Proust Can Improve Your Practice of Epileptology Bertrand de Toffol, Pierre Genton John Libbey Eurotext, 2008 - 222 pages This opus gathers the answers given by senior epilepsy specialists from all over the world to a standard questionnaire. The interviewees were chosen according to their longstanding international reputation and comprehensive practice of epileptology, in most cases covering periods of four decades and more. This undertaking was a sort of challenge: would it be possible to persuade these famous, experienced individuals to answer questions on epilepsy that at first sight might seem partly serious and partly silly, according to an approach the authors of the questionnaire chose to call a Proustian attitude? It was well worth a try. The acceptance of such written interviews was surprisingly quick and good-spirited. The main objective was, from the very start, to provide younger, less experienced epileptologists with an intimate insight into the bigger questions, coming from people with a cumulative experience of several tens of thousands of patients with epilepsy. All this results in a book that teaches a lot about epileptology in a very original approach.