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Pre-medical and the road to becoming a surgeon? |
If you wanted to become a surgeon, first you have to go to college (4 years) and declare yourself pre-medical-- So When you declare yourself "pre-med" what would your major be? Pre-med isn't a major-- after you finish 4 years, do you then take the MCATs to get into Medical School-- then what would your major be? Cardiology? What's the major for going into plastics? So essentially my question is: To end up as a cardio/thoracic or re-constructive (plastic) surgeon, what are the steps, majors, residency/internships, all that good info-- Also what are some good pre-medical schools? Thank you all in advance for attempting this loaded question, I'm just confused about how this whole process would work out. You can can major in basket weaving if you want and still become a doctor. You need to take the required basic sciences to get your pre-medical requriements during college. It doesn't matter what your undergrad degree. You take the MCATs in college and they are used as part of your admissions requirement for med school. You don't take a major per se once you are in medical school. You spend 4 years in academic and clinical instruction. After med school you then do your internship year and then your residency. Most physicians typically become primary care physicians. That is, they go into family practice, internal medicine, or pediatrics. These are a total of 3 years after med school. If you wish to become a specialist in the primary care fields, such as cardiology, gastroenterology, hematology/oncology, then you would do a fellowship. They are are additional years of training AFTER your residency, the duration depending on the subspecialty. And that's just for primary care. If you want to be a surgeon, a general surgery residency is typically 5 years after med school. Each surgical subspecialty would vary in duration depending on the field. As a rule of thumb, it take longer to become a surgeon than a family practitioner. If you look up web sites of various medical training programs, you can find out about the requirements of each. For example, the link below give the requirements for the plastic surgery residency at UPMC Pittsburgh. You can see the process of becoming a physican is quite time consuming, not to mention expensive and competitive. I'm a physician. Source(s): http://www.surgery.upmc.edu/plastics/res... |
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