To become an anesthiologist what would be my major in college?

Answer 1

Anesthesiologists complete a four year undergraduate program with premedical requirements, four years of medical school training, a one year internship, and three or more years of postgraduate training in an anesthesiology residency. The internship year generally includes intense training in pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery and critical care. The three year residency training encompasses the full scope of perioperative medicine, including pre-operative medical evaluation, management of pre-existing disease in the surgical patient, intraoperative life support and pain control, post-operative recovery, ICU medicine, and chronic and acute pain management. Anesthesiologists can choose to sub-specialize in areas such as pain management, critical care medicine, cardiac, obstetric, pediatric, neurosurgical, or regional anesthesia. Board certification by a specialty medical board is not mandatory for any speciality to practice in the United States, including anesthesiology; however, it is difficult to obtain or maintain hospital credentialling without this recognition. As of 2000, the American Board of Anesthesiology, via the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology (MOCA) program, now requires board recertification every ten years. Pursuant to this, a specific number of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits is required every calendar year.

Answer 2

You would go into pre-med, probably a Bachelor of Science degree. Remember, anesthesiologists are doctors, so you would be attending med school and specializing.

You may also choose to be a nurse anesthetist. The job is essentially the same, but you are not a doctor and the salary is much less. Then again, so are the educational requirements. In that case, you would go to college and get your BS in Nursing, get a year of critical care nursing experience, then enter into a Master's degree program for anesthesia.

Answer 3

It doesn't really matter. Med schools have a list of required courses they want you to take in order to accept you. They don't care what your actual major is.

You'll learn how to be an anesthesiologist during your residency, which is after med school. A long time from now.