Do you have to be really good at solving math problems and be good at science to be a psychiatrist?

Question

Really i need an honest answer from people because im thinking about becoming a psychiatrist, but im not all that good in math and in science. And i really want people to comwe to me one day with thier problems so i can help them out. so once again do you have to be real good at math and science to be a decent psychiatrist.

Answer 1

If you specifically want to be a psychiatrist, then yes, you will have to improve your math and science knowledge. However, you can also become a psychologist or counselor. The difference between psychiatry and psychology or counseling is that psychiatry requires that you be a medical doctor (so lots of math and science). If you just want to help people with their problems and are OK with not being able to prescribe them medicine (like anti-depressants), then you can do psychology or counseling. As a psychologist or counselor, you can still see clients and help people solve their issues, without all of the science and math background. Good Luck!

Answer 2

The thing of it is that you have to be able to memorize formulas to do math and you have to memorize principles to do science. A psychiatrist is a person that knows enough about both to become a doctor and then tell enough lies to get away with what they do.

They know that there is no total truth in what they are doing, that there is no scientifically valid and reliable medical science to it, that it is a lot of he said she said and I think this and so we can label it that, and give out drugs that do not cure to bandaid the problems up.

Psychiatrist do not help people to face the truth about themselves they decide what truths they want to impose on others. They are constantly working from half truths.

Their Holy bible the DSM was written by a textbook author and added to and subtracted from as needed by other men that followed him. This of course might be considered a form of math.

You must have a good ability to see yourself as better then others and creative enough to fool them into believing it is so.

If you want to really help someone become a doctor that treats real and actual diseases so you can save a childs life, and do volunteer work of some kind. That would be better.

Answer 3

Remember, that a psychiatrist is a medical doctor. That is one hard row to hoe, so math and science will be stressed. You will have to take college chemistry and let me tell you from personal experience, chemistry can be hard. I am a ethologist, which is a branch of zoology, which is a division of biology. I hardly ever use chemistry, but you need to take it, because it teaches you to think in a problem solving manner. Do the best you can, but you need to come up fast in math and science to attain the goal of psychiatry.

Answer 4

You have to go to med school to be a psychiatrist, so yes, you have to be quite good at both. Psychology is a social science, and requires comprehension in statistics, and is less science heavy. Counseling is also a grad program and you do research, but it is the least math and science intensive of the three. I would check into counseling programs. Good luck.

Answer 5

One of the keys to being a good psychiatrist is helping people accept certain truths about themselves and the truths very evident in their lives that they don't want to face alone. You'll need a good medical background as well because you will be prescribing powerful drugs to people. If you can't do the math during your pharmacy/medical training to become a psychiatrist, you won't make it as a shrink.

Answer 6

No is not that necessary but the colleges or universities require them to narrow down admirations so they can have the better grade students , which most likely will finish the course and not take unnecessary space that a potential student could have ,verses one that may not be able to finish , life is unfair ....