Question: why did you want to be a healthcare scientist

Nana Odom answered on 12 Mar 2019:

I found out about using physics and engineering within healthcare before my 3rd year in university.
I read more about it especially having cared for my grandma during a stroke. I love to care for people and I love physics and engineering. This fuelled my passion to pursue this career. I found out after 3years into my career that I belonged to a work force group within the NHS know as healthcare scientists. There are about 50000 and form 5% of the NHS workforce. There are about 300 of us in my hospital where I am based and you can find healthcare scientists working along various patient care journeys. Healthcare scientists make multiple impacts along the patient pathways and contribute to 80% of clinical diagnosis and decisions. There are about 52 specialisms including cardiac physiology, bioinformatics, genomics, radiation physics, reconstructive science. check it all out here
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/healthcare-science

As a clinical engineer the first question I ask during outreach events is apart from human beings what else do you see? The answer is medical equipment. Clinical engineers ensure that they are safe to use within the environment and on patients and users are trained.
some healthcare scientists are patient facing whiles others work in the background such as labs and in my case too.
check out this website to read all about healthcare science.
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/healthcare-science