does anybody know how long you have to go to med school to become a pediatric cardiologist?

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preferably in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. what type of classes are required in this field? any answers will be greatly appreciated!!

how much do they make a year?

chokeme: Thank You sooooooo much, you really helped me! Thank You for the websites also!! Very Helpful!

Answer 1

I got some information from http://people.howstuffworks.com/becoming-a-doctor.htm -it's a great website for information on becoming a doctor of all sorts! I would suggest anyone thinking of becoming a doctor to check out that website for more details. But here is the basics:

First, you need to go to college and get VERY good grades. The requirements for most medical schools are:
1 year of Biology with lab
1 year of Inorganic Chemistry with lab
1 year of Organic Chemistry with lab
1 year of English
Many schools require 1 year of calculus or college level math
Some medical schools request a course in Biochemistry. Since Pre-Med is not a major, it is common for pre-med students to major in Chemistry or Biology. Any college that offers premedicine will have an advisor who can also help you out in terms of looking at medical schools. You also have to take the MCATS which are Medical College Admissions Test.

Once you get into Med School, you have to take the Boards your 2nd year. You will take the 2nd part at the end of your 4th year, and the 3rd part in the first year of residency.

After Med School you will pick a field to specialize in. This is where you would choose to specialize in Cardiology.

You would then complete your fellowship after your residency.
A Pediatric Cardiologist would require an additional 2-3 years after the 3 year residency.

After that, you must get a medical license so you can practice medicine.

After that, you must be board certified.
THEN, you get a job! Easy enough, right? (Sarcasm)

SO, to answer your question, you will be in medical school for 4 years. But if you add up college (4 years), medical school (4 more), Residency (3 years) Fellowship (2-3 more); that equals 13-14 years of schooling/training. It's a very long process, as I'm sure you already know that =)

According to Salary.com, in Dallas, TX, the average Pediatric Cardiologist makes $259,109 a year.

In TX, I found 1 Medical School in Dallas and it is the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School. I posted a link (the last one) to a list of all the medical schools in Texas.

Good luck with your future! After all that, that's why I'm a Nursing Major =)

Answer 2

Medical school is traditionally four years, with two years of didactic lectures and lab, two of hospital rotations. You don't have to pick what classes to take as medical curriculum is the same for everyone for those first two years. You can choose more focused internships as electives for your fourth year rotations in an area such as pediatric cardiology.

After passing board exams and graduating you can choose to enter a residency program or fellowship in your field of choice. These years of additional training in a specialty allow you to become board certified in a specific specialty practice such as pediatric cardiology. The typical residency for peds is 3 years post-graduate and fellowships for pediatric cardiology are usually an additional 2-3 years. The first fellowship year is largely clinical but the last 1-2 are heavy on research with occasional on-call duties.

Keep in mind you are a doctor during these post-graduate years, but you are a resident/fellow and report to an attending physician(your boss). After board certification you are able to run your own practice. Additionally, pediatric cardiologists made a national average of $185,000/year in 2004.

Answer 3

I would expect many years. I just seen a female dermatologist past June and when she came in the treatment room I thought she was a nurse. I flirted for a minute and told her she didn't look twenty-five. She said you are looking at "Botox". She was thirty-five. She had four years of regular college with all the coarses to get into Med school. She had four years of med school, four years of dermatology, and another 3 years of residency in Los Angeles. She was from Birmingham, Alabama and set up practive here. You realize they are surgeons also.

Answer 4

You need four years of College, then 4 years of medical school. Three years of general pediatric training, then three more years of fellowship. So in all, 14 years. (But you get paid during residency and fellowship_.

You have to take pre-med classes in college, of course. But you can major in anything you want.

Answer 5

4 college
4 medical college
1 internship
4 pediatric residency and cardiology

My last figure may depend on the hospital. Pediatric cardiology is the easiest cardiology by far.

Answer 6

The answer here, predicated upon where, is 8 to 12 years.....if there is the specializatioon, classes to keep current are highly recommended. There you go!!!!
Cheers!

Answer 7

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents (from newborn to age 18-21). The word pediatrics is derived from two Greek words paidi (παιδί) which means "boy" and iatros (ιατρός) which means "doctor". Most pediatricians are members of a national body, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health, Norsk barnelegeforening (The Norwegian society of pediatricians) or the Indian Academy of Pediatrics.


Pediatric polysomnography patient
Children's Hospital (Saint Louis), 2006Pediatrics differs from adult medicine in many respects. The obvious body size differences are paralleled by maturational changes. The smaller body of an infant or neonate is substantially different physiologically from that of an adult. Congenital defects, genetic variance, immunology, oncology, and a host of other issues are unique to the realm of pediatrics. Increasingly effective health care also means that diseases such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis are more often treated by pediatricians, though many or most patients grow into adulthood. Issues revolving around infectious diseases and immunizations are also dealt with primarily by pediatricians.

Pediatrics is also a springboard for any specialty of general medicine, each with its own unique aspects. Pediatric cardiologists deal with heart conditions in children, particularly congenital heart defects, pediatric oncologists often treat leukemias and lymphomas. Every subspecialty of the adult doctor exists in the pediatric field (with the exception of geriatrics), but some are unique to pediatrics, such as adolescent medicine, sports medicine, and neonatology.

Childhood is the period of greatest growth, development and maturation of the various organ systems in the body. Years of training and experience (above and beyond basic medical training) goes into recognizing the difference between normal variants and what is actually pathological.

Another major difference between pediatrics and adult medicine is that children are minors and, in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issue of guardianship, legal responsibility and informed consent must always be considered in every pediatric procedure. In a sense, pediatricians often have to treat the parents and sometimes, the family, rather than just the child. Adolescents are in their own legal class, having rights to their own health care decisions in certain circumstances only, though this is in legal flux and varies by region.

In the U.S., pediatricians are considered to be primary care doctors, along with family practice, internal medicine, and obstetrics. Much of the rest of the world considers them specialists, and parents are only referred to pediatricians for special care not handled by the generalists.

Abraham Jacobi is considered the father of pediatrics.

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The educational requirements for a pediatrician within the United States generally starts with graduating from a four year college. Then one goes to medical school for four more years. After completion of medical school, one does a residency in pediatrics for an additional three years. The pediatrician may then elect to pass a certification examination to be Board Certified in pediatrics. To specialize within pediatrics, in most cases one must complete an additional three year fellowship within their desired subspecialty. The pediatrician may then elect to pass another examination to be Board Certified in that pediatric subspeciality. Some certified paediatric subspecialities in the United States are pulmonology, cardiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, nephrology, neonatology, adolescent medicine, critical care, and emergency medicine. Current exceptions to either the three year residency or three year fellowships include genetics, allergy & immunology and neurology. Other pediatric subspecialties such as pediatric radiology or pediatric anesthesiology are subspecialties of their respective primary specialties (such as radiology or anesthesiology).

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External links
Pediatric Common Questions Quick Answers
GeneralPediatrics.com - The General Pediatrician's View of the Internet
Pediatric Radiology - the first international Pediatric Radiology platform for doctors and patients.
PediatricEducation.org - A Pediatric Digital Library and Learning Collaboratory intended to serve as a source of continuing pediatric education
Virtual Pediatric Hospital - A digital library of pediatric information
American Academy of Pediatrics
Pediatrics Official Journal of the AAP
An On-Line Pediatric Journal Club (via JournalReview.org)
[1] - Summaries of articles published in Pediatrics in Review.
Royal College of Paediatrics website - Homepage for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Born in Bradford - A UK-based birth cohort study
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Pediatric Environmental Health
MedStudy Corporation - produces quality study/review materials to prepare physicians for Pediatrics Board certification and recertification exams. I love them



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hope this helps

Answer 8

until you graduate!!!!