how does a doctor earn a MD?

Question

i want to be a pediatrician what classes should i take? how many years would it take me to get my MD?

Answer 1

hard to answer the question without knowing where you are in school (what level).

becoming an MD is a long, often difficult, but also fun process.

simplest advice i can give you...

talk to YOUR pediatrician. bring it up next time you go to see the doctor. you will have a fun conversation, help your doctor take a nice memory stroll, and just might take the first step of the journey. which is, watching a doctor do what he/she does with other people as patient, not you!

Good luck.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

OK, since I don't know where you are education wise, I'll begin with...
High School - Take all the math and science advanced/college classes that you can - you are going to need them.
College - Need 4 year degree to earn your B.S.
Med School - Graduate College - Need 4 more years to obtain your Doctorate.
Residency - Need 3 years to compelete yout course of study.

All together 11 years before you open your practice.

To become a doctor, you should study biology, chemistry, physics, math, and English. It is not easy to get into medical school. You have to do very well in college and on medical school entrance tests.

Students spend most of the first 2 years of medical school in labs and classrooms. They take lots of science courses. They also learn to ask patients the right questions and how to examine them. They learn how to tell what sickness a patient has. In the last 2 years, students work with patients and doctors in hospitals and clinics. After medical school, doctors go to work in a hospital for a few years. They are called residents. To be a resident, you must take a test.

Answer 4

First you have to go to Undergrad and take certain pre-req courses. These may include 1 year of biology, 1 year of chemistry, 1 year of organic chemistry, 1 year of physics and 1 year of math maybe calculus. Then you will have to make sure that you gett very good grades in those pre-req courses as well as in the other courses you take. You do not have to be a Biology major for undergrad but the better you do in more challenging courses the more favorable it will look. For example if you have a psychology degree with all As vs. a Biochemistry degree with all As.. the more challenging coursework will look better.
That being said.. you also need to demonstrate that you are also well rounded so you may want to be involved in volunteer work at hospitals, maybe be a lab assistant or help in a faculty members research, maybe even design your own research project. Summers should be spent doing research, taking classes, doing volunteer work or working in a medical setting. In your junior year you may begin studying and taking the MCAT. When you get ready to apply you will have to present you CV, MCAT scores, references from instructors or employers, Essays and also you may be called for an interview...Last fast fwd and say you are accepted into medical school.
You will do 4 more years of medical school in addition to the 4 you did for undergrad( unless you were in an accelerated program). Towards the end you will then apply for residency matching. If you get the peds residency then you may have to do a 3-4 year residency in peds. After that you probably can begin practice in a hospital, clinic or private practice. so.....4 years of undergrad + 4 years of medical school + maybe a 3 year residency.....that is 11 years after high school

Answer 5

I labored at St Jude and there was once plenty of competition among MDS and PHDs. MDS make plenty more cash even though the researchers with PHDs make first rate salaries. It's give and insist and there are continually Lots of PHDS for one process. I t was once the equal factor within the scientific side of the health center and the study part. Nurses and Radiation Therapist made a lot more cash than the study Techs. In reality Radiation therapist made more cash than the RN's and graded greater given that of the prime tech needs of the process. Most study techs had masters however obtained paid plenty much less. We would no longer speak approximately salaries however everybody did.

Answer 6

It takes awhile. You get your undergrad, which is 4 years, then you go to med school for at least 4 years, then you have your residency for at least another year (where you're a doctor but you don't get paid like one.) It's about a 10-year process once you're out of high school.

Your college might have pre-med majors. They're most likely a lot of science and anatomy classes. My hubby is a doctor though and he got his undergrad in English, so it really doesn't matter too much as long as you take the right prerequisites.

Answer 7

Once you get your BA, there is 4 years of medical school. Then internship and residency specializing in pediatrics. About 12 years all together.

Answer 8

8-12 years
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Answer 9

Fours year of college, pre-med, then 4 yrs in med school.

Science classes would help.

Answer 10

How do you become a physician?
The education of physicians in the United States is lengthy and involves undergraduate education, medical school and graduate medical education. (The term 'graduate medical education' [GME] includes residency and fellowship training; the American Medical Association does not use the term "postgraduate education.")

Undergraduate education: Four years at a college or university to earn a BS or BA degree, usually with a strong emphasis on basic sciences, such as biology, chemistry, and physics (some students may enter medical school with other areas of emphasis).

Medical school (undergraduate medical education): Four years of education at one of the U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). Four years at one of the LCME-accredited U.S. medical schools, consisting of preclinical and clinical parts. After completing medical school, students earn their doctor of medicine degrees (MDs), although they must complete additional training before practicing on their own as a physician. (Note: Some physicians receive a doctor of osteopathic medicine [DO] degree from a college of osteopathic medicine.)

Residency program (graduate medical education): Through a national matching program, newly graduated MDs enter into a residency program that is three to seven years or more of professional training under the supervision of senior physician educators. The length of residency training varies depending on the specialty chosen: family practice, internal medicine, and pediatrics, for example, require 3 years of training; general surgery requires 5 years. (Some refer to the first year of residency as an "internship"; the AMA no longer uses this term.)

Fellowship: One to three years of additional training in a subspecialty is an option for some doctors who want to become highly specialized in a particular field, such as gastroenterology, a subspecialty of internal medicine and of pediatrics, or child and adolescent psychiatry, a subspecialty of psychiatry.
After completing undergraduate, medical school and graduate medical education, a physician still must obtain a license to practice medicine from a state or jurisdiction of the United States in which they are planning to practice. They apply for the permanent license after completing a series of exams and completing a minimum number of years of graduate medical education.

The majority of physicians also choose to become board certified, which is an optional, voluntary process. Certification ensures that the doctor has been tested to assess his or her knowledge, skills, and experience in a specialty and is deemed qualified to provide quality patient care in that specialty. There are two levels of certification through 24 specialty medical boards — doctors can be certified in 36 general medical specialties and in an additional 88 subspecialty fields. Most certifications must be renewed after six to 10 years, depending on the specialty.

Learning does not end when physicians complete their residency or fellowship training. Doctors continue to receive credits for continuing medical education, and some states require a certain number of CME credits per year to ensure the doctor's knowledge and skills remain current. CME requirements vary by state, by professional organizations, and by hospital medical staff organizations.