Route to a career as a radiologist.?

Question

Hello, I am a freshman at Georgia Tech currently pursuing a degree in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering. More importantly, I am considering a pre-med track to become a radiologist. I've done some research about med schools, but I'm still unsure about what I should do. Are there special programs for radiology? or is med school just med school? Should I continue with my intentions to fulfill my pre-med requirements? or should I just stick to the nuclear engineering? Thanks so much.

Answer 1

Med school is just med school for the first few years--you can take extra classes in your desired area of specialization, but everyone at a given school completes a standard basic set of classes--it is more structured than undergraduate studies. During your M3 and M4 years you will have the opportunity to take a couple electives in your desired area of specialization and then once you graduate you'll be able to apply for internship and residency positions in radiology.

If you want to be a radiologist you should pursue a standard pre-medical curriculum (1 year of physics, 1 year of inorganic chemistry, 1 year of organic chemistry, 1 year of calculus, 1 year of biology, and 1 year of English) in addition to your desired major.

You should also make connections now with people in the medical field in order to shadow doctors (several dozen hours minimum) and to volunteer in clinical settings (several hundred hours is desirable).

You can go to medical school with ANY college major as long as you have completed the pre-med requirements listed above, so if you are enjoying your current major, stick with it.

Visit http://www.studentdoctor.net -- it is an excellet source of information for pre-med students.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Radiologist--in case you mean a healthcare professional, that takes greater desirable than a decade. in case you mean an x-ray tech, it particularly is sweet interest. I worked with couple of them--they are comfortable and fairly lots pleased with what they must do. p.s. purely don't get uncovered to radiation by risk.