Do you need licensning certification and continuing education to be a pediatrician?
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A pediatrician is a medical doctor.  The coursework is not the same as it is for a nurse.  You need a 4-year college degree.  The major you choose isn't really important but you will need quite a few prerequisites for med school (generally 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year organic chemistry, 1 year physics, 1 year calculus, and 1 year biology).  \n\nOnce you get these prerequisites in you can take the MCAT (medical college aptitude test) and then begin applying to medical school.\n\nOnce accepted it is 4 years of medical school and 3-5 years residency (internship).  I'm not quite sure of the residency requirements for pediatricians.  You'd have to look that up.  It's probably 3 years.\n\nYou will have to pass the licensing exam in the state you want to practice in.  After that there is additional licensing and continuing education that all doctors have to do.  \n\nIf you want to be a nurse that is a 2 or 4 year program and you go to nursing school.  Nursing and being a doctor are two completely different careers and require different coursework.
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The other answer would help you learn alot, but you cant get certified that way. Their really isnt any\nother way except go to college like every one else does. Just go full time and it shouldnt take to many\nmonths.or years
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No need of certificate, unless you want to open a day-care in your house.\nYou don't need to go through another 4 year misery for permits. You just need 6 units of early childhood education (from most community colleges) to have a assistant teacher's permit. It's really easy. With the units, it's much easier to find a job, and you get paid better.
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The first website provide requirement for nursery schools.\nThe second are requirements for all schools.\n\n\nNonpublic nursery schools and kindergartens may voluntarily register with the State Education Department. 8 N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. Part 125.
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An actual degree is not necessary, but there is a certificate program.  It cost money too.  Sometimes if you hook up with a real estate company they will help supply the cost for the program.  Once you are certified you will also have to keep your certificate updated by attending I think it is 20 hours of seminars per year.  This helps keep your license up to date.
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This varies greatly depending on the spcecific healthcare field. Many national organizations certify either contuing education CEU providers or courses (such as the NBCC for counseling, NAADAC for addiction counselors, APA for psychologists, NASW for social workers, AMA for physicians). Many state licensure boards choose to accept education certified by a related national association, but some do not. In some cases, the provider must get approval for the course, or to offer unlimited courses, directly from the state board in question. This is common with many boards in California and some in Florida. I hope this answers your question - you can find more about mental health accreditations from the CEU Hours link below and there is also a link to the AMA provided Continuing Medical Education.
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It all depends on how many children you watch, their ages, and how much time you watch them for.  In addition, different areas of the country get different rates.\n\nPlus before you can watch them you need to get licensed.
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Well it depends, you have to become either an LPN or RN.  LPN usually takes about a year and a half to 2 years.  RN can take 2 to 4 years. \n\nYou become an RN and work specifically in pediatrics, you can even become certified.\n\nIt is best to talk to a nursing school in your area or a university that has a nursing program and ask them specific information.  They will be able to steer you in the right direction of what you should do and how to pursue this.  Nursing is a wonderful profession and children are certainly a blessing.  I hope that everything goes well...
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only as long as the training is equivalent to the nursing state ciricullum or over.  but they have to be a state certified school.  I tried to challange the boards but no state can let me do it.  I was a fully trained, United States Navy Advanced Medical Hospitalcorpsman, trained in both Basic and advanced medicine.  Great lakes, Ill. and Bethesda, MD at the Naval Regional Medical Center,  I have 3 military degrees in Medicine and Surgery, and still can't challenge the boards.  One school did and that was for a Lic'd practical nurse boards, but they only let me do it to see what I can do and how I'd actually score on the tests.   I maxed both of them with 100's.  and they still didn't give me my lic.
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It really depends on where you are certified.  If you are in certain states all you have to do is take a test for the subject area you wish to gain certification.  In Oklahoma you would have to take two tests, one for early childhood, and another that is called a professional exam (only necessary if you are certified high school and want elementary or if elementary and wanting high school).\nIn other states you must take the course work.  Either way I would advise taking the course work to refresh yourself for the test and gain new ideas, plus it makes you look better.
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You need to be licensed in the countries you're practicing in.
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yes forien schools generaly have lower standards then American; so yes they will have to apply for a license. but if they pass the license test the dont have to take med school again
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My husband is a third year med student in the US.  He'll go through a total of four years as a student.  (Split in half, two years in classroom, two years doing clinical rotations with preceptors.)  Then he'll do an intern year followed by a 3 year long residency.  He's going into IM and Peds.  Other specialities have differing residency lengths.  A board certified residency is required for licensing in the US, along with passing the USMLE exams along the way.  \n\nIs this similar to the education for docs in the UK?\n\nIf it's similar, I wouldn't have a problem with it.  In all, it's at least 8 years worth of post-graduate schooling/training.  That's adequate for a family care doc.  Surgeons in the US have longer residencies.  I'd imagine it would be the same in the UK, too. \n\nBut please, correct me if I'm wrong.  It's certainly happened before!
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Depends on the skills you graduated with, the certificate or diploma you hold and the discipline you are trained for.  The medical field is vast, however the requirements for many medical skills require a specialty certificate.
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You CANT practice as a Hygienist without a License. So yes, you'll have to take the test and then get Registered in whatever state you decide to live in. Different states have different test. You cant take the California Board, and practice in New York, for example.  Each state has their own testing.
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In most cases your local community college will be able to answer that question.  The reason for this is that every state has it's own guidelines to be certified.
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from the preschool teachers i have come across you don't need much of anything. some of the schools require a certificate, others just want a warm body. scary out there folks.