What exactly is a diagnostician and what should I major in in college if I want to be one?

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A diagnostician, in medicine, is simply a description of someone who is especially adept at making diagnoses: taking the historical, physical, and laboratory data and integrating them into a working understanding of what the medical problems are in a patient. That understanding is framed against the known body of medical knowledge, so that symptoms and physical findings can be given a name, and with it, a connection to everything that medical science understands about that entity. Any physician in any specialty might be a diagnostician. However, they are typically in the so-called "cogntive" specialties, including Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and perhaps Pathology. Sometimes specialists in imaging the body (taking Xrays, CT scans, MRIs, etc) are called diagnosticians, since they perfrom diagnostic tests.

To become one, you will need to become a doctor. You can have any major you want, just as long as you have the core requirements to get into medical school. You'll need good grades and a high MCAT score as well.

Here is a great website for seeing what one excellent medical school requires to get in:
http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/osac/admissions/Apply/apply_reqs.htm

Answer 2

A diagnostician is a doctor.
dia = accross
gnosis =knowing
diagnosis literally means thorough knowledge.

Answer 3

Your undergraduate degree can be in anything as long as you get the right courses for med school. I know people in business, engineering, even english who are going to med school.

Answer 4

You get a medical degree, then in medical school you specialize and diagnostic medicine.