what courses am I required to take if I want to be a pediatrician?\?

Answer 1

Although the normal mandatory courses are included : such as biology chemistry, math, english; Each university/college/school may require different credits to apply for their program. My suggestion is to choose school around you that offer a pediatrics program, see what steps you need to take, what courses are required, take them, and then apply.

Good luck

Answer 2

You need to complete college and medical school before you specialize in pediatrics.

You may find, somewhere along this journey, that some other specialty catches your eye.

I was going to be a pediatrician, until I did my pediatrics rotation in med school.

I am an anesthesiologist. I still take care of kids, but they are blissfully quiet. (There is nothing more beautiful than a sleeping child!)

Courses you take in high school, college, and, for the most part, in medical school have NO bearing on what pediatric residency you end up with.

Answer 3

First, you have to graduate hs. Then major in biology, chemistry or some like science in college, and of course, do well. Apply then to Med School. You can major in pediatrics in your third year, and take your residency in pediatrics as well. Secret to all of this? Good grades, no top grades, stay a well rounded student, show the admission committee that not only are you a top notch smart kid, but that you have good communication skills, join clubs, be involved in Student Government, etc. They for sure want bright people, but not at the expense of being a nerd.

Answer 4

1st, you need a college degree. While you are in college, you need to take the MCATs or some equivalent. Then off to Medical School for 4 years. Once completed medical school, you apply for residency. Pediatric residency is 3 years.
Off course this is simplified, because you will likely need a good GPA, good recommendations, volunteer work at hospitals or some exposure to the medical field, etc.
Its a long and tough road.

Most people in college received a degree in sciences because it will help a lot in the future. Anatomy, biology, chemistry are definite musts.

Answer 5

You have to go to medical school in order to be a pediatrician. Therefore in college you have to take the courses needed to get into medical school. Although each medical school may be slightly different, they all require sizable amounts of course work in chemistry - typically up through organic chemistry. Also you need to take biology, maybe just first year biology for many schools. Although medical schools don't require a lot of biology to get in, having had more than the minimum may make your life somewhat easier once you are in medical school. Prerequisites for medical school also typically require a certain amount of math in college - maybe up to couple of semesters of calculus. You also have to take a one year course of college physics (typically the course without calculus). There are also requirements for a certain amount of general education, such as English. You don't have to major in any particular subject in college, you just have to be sure to get the prerequisites for medical school done while you are there. You can major in just about anything - I know people who have gone to medical school after majoring in French, psychology, Sanskrit as well as the usual biology, neuroscience, molecular biology and chemistry that most premeds end up taking.The counsellors at your college will help you to decide what to take.
This next paragraph refers to a course of study in a "typical" four year medical school. (There are some accelerated programs that start in college that work differently. )
Once you go to medical school, the first two years are exactly the same for everyone, no matter what they are going to be - pediatrician, neurosurgeon, or whatever, they take the same stuff. Same with the third year - it is more or less identical for everyone. In the fourth year of a typical medical school you can take a series of electives which are either clinical experiences or some sort of research (lab or clinical) to make your final decision about what you want to do after med school. Typically by then most students know what they want to be and they take so-called subinternships in the specialities that interest them such as pediatrics, family medicine, surgery or whatever. These clinical experiences which typically last 4-6 weeks help them "show their stuff" so that they will get picked by a training program in the specialty they are interested in. To do these students sometimes go to a hospital associated with a different medical school, one that they are thinking about applying to for internship and residency training, for example. Also in the fourth year students often take courses in specialties that might help them with the type of training that they will do after medical school. Someone going into family medicine, for example, might take a sports medicine specialty month or a cardiology month or something like that. After graduation from medical school then the student (now a doctor) actually starts training in the special thing they want to be, such as pediatrics. That can take from three years up to 7 years additional in training before the doctor is a full-fledged practitioner of whatever it is he or she is doing. (Pediatrics takes three years, more if after completing the pediatrician training program, you then do a subspecialty such as pediatric cardiology.)
Hope this helps; sorry it is such a long answer.

Answer 6

You have to go to medical school, finish your internship, and then you can get into pediatrics.