I heard someone replied me that if you want to be a physician you have to go for 1 year of residents.?
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The time involved includes the aptitude of the person and their wishes to specialize.  However, the longer you spend time as an intern the more you'll get out of a residency.  Both are intense learning experiences that give you a chance to determine if you want to specialize and if so, in what area.
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No, as long as you have your citizenship.  The One Year Policy only applies to green card holders.  Just make sure that, if you are working abroad, you file your American taxes or you could be in trouble with the IRS when you come back.
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You need a college degre, which usually takes about 4 years.  You then go to medical school, which is another 4 years.  Then you have a residency, which varies depending on the program.  It can take 3-5 years.\nYou will need to take sciences classes to get into medical school.  Biology, chemistry, physics, and calculus are required by most medical schools.
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It depends on what type of doctor you want to be.  You are looking at four years of undergraduate (pre-med, bio, chem, etc.) plus three years of medical school, plus a year of being an intern.  That gets you your M.D.  After that, you have a residency and depending on what type of doctor you want to be, depends on how long the residency is.  Surgery varies by specialization and fellowships, most residencies are three years for non-surgery medical paths.
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Not really.  But people have.  Physician Assistant school is a graduate degree.  Much time is spent in field work or internship.  If you can stay awake 18-20 hours a day go for it.
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After high school, you have to complete college (a Bachelor of Science in an approved pre-med major) and then medical school. This process usually takes about 8 years - 4 for the Bachelors, 4 for the medical school. Following medical school you start residency. A surgical residency is 5 - 7 years (this is a working job. A surgical specialty, like trauma surgery, can be 2 years of that residency). Basically that means you go to at least 8 years of school, then start the on-the-job training of a residency. You finish with all that in about 15-17 years.
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you are a legal resident of any state after one year, but you can't be a student because you aren't considered a resident then.
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There is a medical school administered by the U.S. Armed Forces. I believe there is no cost beyond a committment to serve on active duty for a substantial period of time. Getting admitted to a medical school, as you may well know, is not a trivial accomplishment.
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4 years plus any residencies you may have to do after graduation for specialization.
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You will have to establish permanent residency in that state, and every state will have different policies for this. Look into the states official policy on establishing residency. My guess is that many states will require you to have lived there for 2 or 3 years first.
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yup....they can be an RN first then go back to med school and become an MD. Sweet, isn't it?
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OK... Let me understand what you're asking...\n\nYou want to become a Medical Doctor, and provide highly skilled medical care to real human beings, and you're seeking advice for important career information on this forum?  \n\nGod help us all if this fool ever gets close to a hospital!
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It is not too late. You do not have to redo college if you have already gone, you will just have to make up the prerequisites. The requirements for medical school are usually 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year of biology, 1 year of organic chemistry, and 1 year of physics (which will require calculus.) If you do not have a bachelor's degree, you will have to earn one, but you can do any major you like as long as you fulfill the premed requirements. (My best friend is a doctor and she was a history major at Columbia.) After that you will have to take the MCAT test and then attend a 4-year medical school and then get accepted to a hospital to do a residency.
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An amusing semantic prank... It's right up there with "Doctors practice medicine until they get it right, then they retire."\n\nYou're actually confounding two distinctly different meanings of the word practice: one, repeating until something is learned and gotten right (which is how you are using the word), and the other, applying an art or science that has been mastered (the meaning of the word when you speak of a physician or a lawyer practicing their trade).  Thus, in the intended meaning of the word, talking about a physician practicing, we stop practicing when we retire.  In the sense you're misunderstanding the phrase to mean, we usually are accorded as doing it for real when we graduate from our residency and begin applying our knowledge in the real world.\n\nGrin--as I said, an interesting play on the word "practice"  here...
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most states require taht you live there a year to be a resident
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usually it takes 8 yrs of schoolonig after highs chool and residency could take anywhere from 3 to 8 yrs depending on filed of study. When you become a medical doctor, you are not COMPLETELY done, since you ahev to keep update with new advances in meds and technology
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I think that is right.  So that means (at least in the US) 4 years of college, 4 years of medical scholl and 4 years of residency.  Sometimes these people can also do a fellowship after the residency for special fields (usually about 1 year).