What qualifications are required to become a consultant?
March 28th, 2010 | 
Author: I want to be a consultant in a hospital when i am older. What are the qualifications needed?
Also what are the qualifications needed to be a social care worker?
To answer your question…
A Vermont dairy farmer was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the farmer "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The farmer looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."
"That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the farmer. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the farmer says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You’re a consultant ." says the farmer.
"Wow! That’s correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the farmer. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don’t know anything about my business…….. Now give me back my dog."
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To answer your question…
A Vermont dairy farmer was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the farmer "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The farmer looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly 1586 cows and calves."
"That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the farmer. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then the farmer says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You’re a consultant ." says the farmer.
"Wow! That’s correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the farmer. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked; and you don’t know anything about my business…….. Now give me back my dog."
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You need a degree in social work (BA, MBA, or higher), loads of clinical experience, and a lifestyle that will allow you to be flexible as you are on rotational shifts or on-call alot. Good luck!!
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Well, you’ll need to go to university and study medicine and become a doctor first of all. Then you need to work your way up through the ranks of hospital doctors. Usually you spend six months as a House Officer in surgery and then six months as a H.O in medicine (or the other way round). Then if you are ready, you step up to Senior House Officer and work through the fields that interest you. For example, if you wanted to be a medical consultant, then you would take an SHO’s post in medicine, then work up to Registrar and then consultant. But it takes a lot of years and bloody hard work to achieve this.
As for social workers? I’m afraid I’m not really sure.
Hope this helps.
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Qualified nurse.
I will give you two answers, one cynical, the second more proper. But in certain instances, both are true.
1) When you have enough money, or more likely, enough credit to pay for a "consultant" sign and an ad in the Yellow Pages. Chutzpah helps.
2) After graduating from medical school and completing a residency and a fellowship. Become double-boarded, eg you have board certification in both internal medicine and in gastroenterology. Then you practice long enough to gain experience and reputation as a doctor skilled in diagnostics and therapeutics. Compassion is highly desirable.
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