emergeny physician?

Question

i am a high school sophomore and i am starting to think about college and my future career. I would love to work in a hospital ER, but i have one question. i am confused about Emergency Medicine...some sites list it as a major and others dont. I basically want to be an ER physician, so what would i have to major in in college and what courses would i have to take?
*i don't want to specialize in anything, i want to work in the ER for all of my medicinal career*

Answer 1

You will not be required to major in a specific subject in college. You need to comply with all the pre-medicine requirements to successfully go to College of Medicine and graduate successfully with the Medical Degree (or D.O.), complete the internship and go through residency. During residency, you can start looking on specializing on Emergency Medicine. You need to complete some required trainings and may apply for post-graduate specialization in any of the Colleges of Emergency Medicine. Once successful, your career as ER physician will keep on going being a certified ER physician.

Answer 2

If you're in high school now, apply to bachelorate college, and you can major in anything that you like (It's assumed that most student's going pre-med will major in science, I'm a biology major, but you don't have to major in a science, you just have to be sure to take the pre-req courses for the MCAT's before April of your junior year.) (Pre req courses are- Gen Bio, Gen Chem, Organic Chem and Physics, all 2 semesters of each). The most important thing is GOOD GRADES. Take the MCAT's, and apply to a medical school. Most if not all offer ER medicine, so that shouldn't be a problem. If you are planning (or forced to) go outside of the united states, be sure that the schools degree will be valid here (The UK for example doesn't give MD degrees, rather Bachelor of Surgerys which aren't accepted here). Once in med school, you will usually have 2 years of book learning, 2 years of hands on, and then you can specialize in whatever field you are leaning towards, ie ER med.

-Hope this helps, stick with it, it is extremely hard, and I can't say yet if it is well worth the years of school and stress, but I'm sure it will be. Good luck!!!

Answer 3

ER doc IS a specialization!!! While you do not have to major in anything specific, I would say that majoring in some kind of scince is helpful. They say you can chose whatever you want since you will get plenty in med school, but I think for someone interested in medicine, even if you re-learn the stuff upon entry into medical school, it is better to take more science oriented classes. I also heard majoring in Spanish is good bcz there are so many people who need Spanish-speaking docs.

Answer 4

In the US and Canada, you needn't put any thought into it. You can major in any area you'd like in college as long as you also take the requisite courses to get into medical school (for this info and a lot more, you can surf through the rather hefty site http://www.aamc.org ). Medical school is also pretty generic, although there are a few electives at the end. You don't begin to specialize until you're in your specialty training (residency) after medical school, and there's no advantage in trying to jump the gun.