im planning to be a psychiatrist, but i heard that i should complete medical school first?
i guess it works like this, 6 years in medicine school, and 2 years specialization in psychology…am i right? anyway…which is the BEST medical school in the states which will prepare me, or make it easier for me to specialize in psychology and become a successful and high-paid psychiatrist? and are psychiatrists high-paid?
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January 24th, 2010 at 5:51 am
First, you get a Bachelor’s Degree. That is 4 years, and should be a science field in order to be more successful in med school
Second, medical school is 4 years. 2 of those years are coursework, and that last 2 are rotations (clinicals).
Third, after medical school, you do a residency…which is your specialization. For psychiatry, that should be about 3-4 years.
And psychiatrists are one of the least paid doctors in the United States, with only pediatricians being lower. They money is in surgery, radiology, etc.
January 24th, 2010 at 5:51 am
http://www.psychiatry.com/student.php
That website has a good general outline for your requirements to be a psychologist.
A previous question asked about medical school for psychiatry yielded this answer: "It doesn’t matter what medical school you attend. Psychiatry is a specialty that you specialize in a residency program, not in med school." (Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080106024938AAWmtCz)
If you want the best education for medical school, then I’d stereotypically recommend an Ivy league school like Yale or Duke, or the famous medical schools like Johns Hopkins University. Really, to find the best med school, I’d research some of their statistics.