How much science classes do you have to take exactly in high school to become a psychiatrist?
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February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
You need to take enough to get into a good pre-med or similar program for your undergraduate degree. That includes biology, chemistry, physics and math through calculus if you can. You will get the rest in your UG program.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
Just enough to graduate high school and be accepted into a university that can teach you to be a psychiatrist. At my school it was 3 years of science.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
med schools dont look at hs but u maywant to take Ap biology for college credits then go pre med and med school
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
Take as many as you feel necessary, and take as many as you NEED to get into the college you would like to attend. After that, you will need to fulfill the med school prerequisites needed to apply to med school to become a psychiatrist.
http://www.ehow.com/how_18117_become-psychiatrist.html
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
None, in that not even med schools care about high school courses, so psychiatry residency programs certainly don’t care (psych residency comes after med school).
That said, in high school you should focus on getting into the best college you can….so that means taking challenging courses and doing well in *all* subjects. Many colleges require a certain number of years of science (usually 3-4 years, but it’s college-specific). You’ll have to take intro courses in all the major sciences in college (and do very well in them to get into med school), so having taken high-school level courses can help give you a leg-up in college. Also, medicine *is* science, so you should at some level actually enjoy those classes.
In college you can major in anything as long as you take the premed prereqs (roughly speaking, a year plus labs of bio, gen chem, organic chem, and physics…plus math and English). If you have an interest in psych you’re certainly welcome to take classes in psychology or even major in it, but it’s not required.
The earliest you would take a psychiatry-specific course would be in medical school, and even then it’s a general requirement….so the earliest you would electively take a psychiatry "course" would be in 3rd or 4th year med school.
February 7th, 2010 at 5:58 am
Psychiatrists are Medical Doctors. High School - College - Medical School - Internship/Residency in Psychiatry. Those are the steps. You can’t be a psychiatrist with just undergraduate college.
In high school, you need to take the courses that will get you admitted to a decent college or university. Most colleges require 3 years, with 4 years recommended. If you were going to major in Biology (which is good prep for med school) or any of the sciences in college, you should certainly have 4 years in H.S.