I want to become a doctor of diagnostic medicine. What is a good setup plan to follow this career? Suggested colleges of study? Courses? Recommended internships or jobs?
2007-03-27 15:06:58 · 5 answers · asked by averiex 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I had never heard of a doctor of diagnostic medicine and wondered if it might be something done in other countries - so I tried searching on the Yahoo! UK and Australia...with no luck there either - I think you might be confused about the job title.
In truth, a doctor of any subspecialty of medicine is a diagnostician. It is the cornerstone of what exactly medical doctors do.
I think it is fine to have goals about where you want to eventually end up - cardiology or internal medicine or dermatology or OB/GYN or whatever. Rather knowing what it takes to get you from where you are now sucessfully to the next step should be your primary concern.
Does it matter what undergrad school you go to? No - as long as it is a university and you obtain the primary core classes to take the MCAT admission exam. In truth you have a much, much higher chance of being admitted to a school in your own state than one in another state. The exceptions are private schools - which often are very expensive. The piece of advice I might add here is to go to undergrad school and assume residency in a state of a school or schools that you might want to apply.
The other piece of advice I might offer is to consider going to a trade school and learning to be an EMT. Get a job on an ambulance or volunteer if need be. It is invaluable experience that not only will be helpful in your eventual goal but be helpful in being able to coherently discuss you desire to go into medicine in an interview. (This is all in addition to going to undergrad, applying, etc, etc - not instead)
Check out this link for further resources and information.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/lifesciences/medicalschool/index.htm
Good luck.
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I want to become a doctor of diagnostic medicine. What is a good setup plan to follow this career? Suggested colleges of study? Courses? Recommended internships or jobs?
2015-08-06 15:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard of such a thing ~ sounds like something made up to get tv viewers. Everyone who works in medicine ~ nurses, nurse practictioners, doctors practice "diagnostic medicine" every day. It is a part of their job to effectively assess and treat patients. Every patient is different ~ while most people will display the common signs & symptoms for a certain illness, sometimes the signs/symptoms are masked by other causes or underlying conditions. So not everyone may be a textbook example of a disease. Any type of medicine is always a challenge. It isn't really possible to specialize in *everything* ~ which is what you seem to be describing. In order to specialize, you have to narrow your field of study. You know, there are general practitioners who treat everything ~ but when a person develops, say heart disease that patient may be referred to a heart specialist. So, in real life a person with a "mystery disease" may see many specialists who will rule out different specific causes before they discover the real problem. Again, I have never heard of a doctor who simply diagnoses tough cases ~ one person just can't know everything there is to know about every rare disorder that can occur to every system in the body.
2016-03-24 10:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The TV series "House" seems to have generated a lot of posts like this. The cases you see on that program are artificial, and in real life, there would be a host of various specialists involved in what the small team do on that program. The closest thing is academic internal medicine or perhaps a job as a hospitalist, which is pretty well the same thing. It's the most common residency, so the preparation is pretty well plain vanilla. Anything remotely resembling a routine premedical college course will do.
2007-03-28 02:48:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
First you have to get an MD degree. The 1 year of internship. Then 3 years of residency in pathology.
Getting into a medical school is the toughest. Not even one from your school would make it !
2007-03-27 16:58:10 · answer #7 · answered by kenneth h 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋