How Do I Become A Pediatrician?
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Assuming you're already a college student. \n\n(1)Freshman/Sophomore Year College: make sure you are premed. This will ensure that you are taking the right courses for medical school entrance. Study hard, work hard and play hard too. Make sure you are involved in clubs/sports/jobs etc.\n\n(2)Junior/Senior Year: TAKE THE MCAT!!! Also, make sure you're GPA is to the tune of 3.7 to 4.0, and that you've done research and volunteered in a healthcare setting. Apply to medical schools; particularly those known for primary care.\n\n(3)Once you've been accepted: You are going to take basic med school classes years 1 and 2. Afterwards, in years 3 and 4 you will be broken down into specialties. You'll make 'rounds' at area hospitals where you finally get a chance to work w/children.\n\n(4)After graduating med school, you'll have a 3-5 year residency where you'll get paid to work in pediactrics while senior doctors monitor your progress.\n\n(5) You become a full fledged pediatrician!\n\n**Persona wise: make sure you are a friendly, understanding and compassionate person. Also, are you a carefully/cautious person? When you work w/children there is no room for error. Messing up in dosage / surgery could kill a child faster than an adult.
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Go to college and study pre-med. Then go to medical school.
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in undergrad, you will need to take chemistry (organic and inorganic), biology, physics, calculus, and english (among other classes).  after this you will have to apply to medical school.  once you get into medical school, you will have to take a range of general classes before you can begin specializing in pediatrics.  you will then do your residency in pediatrics.
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You have to already have your BS degree in one of the science.You then must enter dental school, and finish the 4 year course to graduate with a DDS, or DMD degree. Then you got  to intern as medical doctors do (at least 1 yr.).  You must also pass the state licensing board to practice.You may be looking at least 5-7 years of hard work and studying, depending on your education credentials you now possess.
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This really depends on the college that you go to, the best place to go would be to check with some kind of health sciences advisor.\n\nBut with that said, there are certain classes that are needed for the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), which most medical schools require you to take.\n\nYou'll need 1 year of some kind of introductory biology, 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year of physics, 1 year of organic chemistry, and some biochemistry/genetics/other classes as well. There is a writing portion on the MCAT as well, and some schools require 1 year of English.\n\nThe easiest way is to call an advisor and set up an appointment, ask them what you need to take to get into medical school, good luck :)
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Hope this link will help you:\n\nhttp://pediatrics.about.com/\n\nhttp://www.aap.org/
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Any accredited school where the nursing graduate acquires an Associates of Science degree in Nursing.  A degree that upon completion, entitles you to test for your RN license in the state in which you live.  Some licenses will work in multiple states and some states would require you to retest if you ever moved, so you should check on the RN license requirements for your state if you are considering going out of state to attend school, and move back home upon completion or vice versa.  If the school you find that best suits your personal needs and will allow you to become a registered nurse is located in the state you plan on residing in once you graduate, then you should be fine.  Keep in mind that this only licenses you as an RN.  I guess circumstance would allow you to work in Pediatrics or not.  If you want to become a Pediatric nurse, meaning a person that not only has an RN license, but further education to allow them to specialize in children's health, you would more than likely be looking at a bachelor's degree in nursing.  It should be relatively easy finding a school that offers an RN program, but depending on where you live, finding a school that would allow you to get a bachelors degree in nursing with a focus in Pediatrics may be a little more difficult.  Again, that all depends on where you live and how easy it would be for you to make that decision to attend.
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Ask your school and teacher from the school you just graduate from. or ask your local medical board. look up on the internet. go to the libary. go to local book store.\ngo to cvs or wallgreen drug store.etc. etc.
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well, a pediatrician is a doctor that works with children. you go to med school and then the last year your specialization is pediatricy
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Pediatricians practice pediatrics, which is a branch of medicine dealing with the development, care, and diseases of children.\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nIf anyone has other questions that they want sent specifically to me, please send them to yourqandaperson@yahoo.com -- Please keep them appropriate and ask only realistic questions or your question will be deleted and reported! Thank you for using this service!
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You would most likely need a psychology or sociology degree with some experience working with children & family services.  Your work experience would probably qualify you more than the actual degree area in which you majored.
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It would be a developmental-behavioral pediatrician.
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After HS its good to go for associates degree in Medical, then bachelors then talking anywhere from 4-6 yrs for the masters. there is also a board certified exam to be passed. pediatrician is a very good living, I am currently going for my associates in medical office administration, and my teacher told me that pediatricians get paid the most out of all other doctors, even cardiologists and brain surgeons. but it makes since because when your a pediatrician your dealing mostly with our future. (Children) Good Luck!
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To become a pediatric nurse the person must be a registered nurse (RN), as well.  A registered nurse requires a licensing exam and need to go to college (two- or four-year degree).  Most nursing programs insist on the student having a Basic Life Support certificate, and a standard first aid class, which must remand current.  For a registered pediatric nurse education, it is the same as a RN only the nurse can get a certification of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses.  Although not required, a nurse might have a bachelor's degree.
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Well there really isn't such a thing as a pre-med major. In most schools that say they have a pre-med program really have a student major in one of the sciences and take the requisite courses toward medical school (and there really are very few required courses--gen chem, organic chem, majors biology, physics, and sometimes genetics). Pre-health has arisen to include those students who want to go to vet school, dental school, optometry school, etc. But, the requirements are not all that much different for all the health professions, so I don't think it really matters what you call it.\n\nI would want to make a decision based not on what they call it, but what results they have. Ask each of the schools you are considering to tell you their acceptance rate to medical school. How many of their students go on to medical school? If they tell you they don't know or that very few students go to medical school then you probably want to consider why that is.\n\nThe other thing you want to find out is what support they offer you. What kind of premedical/prehealth advising do they offer? What kind of preparation programs (MCAT prep, interview prep, etc) do they offer?\n\nRemember, also, that you don't have to be a science major to get into medical school. You just need your basic science courses. Consider that if a social science or humanities major might work for you then you can pursue that. Remember that they will teach you all the science you need in medical school. Use undergraduate school to help you learn to think about complex problems, communicate well orally and in writing, understand the world and people in it, appreciate diversity and the differing views of others. Since you want to be a pediatrician take some elective courses in child psychology, family studies, things like that. Pediatricians have to work with a much broader segment of persons and are much more relationship oriented than are many of the other specialties.\n\nGood luck to you!
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After graduating form high school you have to get a B.S. and then go to med. school.  in med. school it takes 2 years to specialize in a type of practice so...\n23 years of school starting in kindergarten.  If you do it with out stopping you'll be about 28 when you finish.  But then you have to be an intern.  You might not start making money until you're 33.  (and they don't pay doctors as much as they used to.)
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Are you guys kiddin me. i don't know about these guys but i want to become a pediatrician and help people. i want to help little cute kids. i want to finish education and make my parents proud(this is strongest one of all-keeping my parents happy like they are now). i also want to go back to my country and accomplish something for them. i want stay true to my believes and religion. i want to sat as opinionated as i am now. i want to contribute something into making this world a better place to live in. it might sound corny to you guys but that is really my dream.