A few days ago
nehemiah3131

Is the process to become a doctor hard? If so how hard? Is it do-able?

I want to be an OB/GYN. I am still in high school though. What steps do I need to further my career and get into medical school?

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A few days ago
Sarah C

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Of course, it’s do-able, otherwise we wouldn’t have any doctors.

It’s hard, very hard. From this point, take hard classes, esp. in science. Med school requires lots of chemistry–not as much biology as you’d think. You don’t, however, have to be a chem major in college as long as you take the courses medical schools want. (Contact a medical school and find out what they require and what they recommend.)

For now, take chemistry, AP if the school has it, and calculus. Get good SAT scores so you can get into a school that sends lots of its pre-meds to medical school. (Just be careful that they do this by helping those who’re interested, not flunking out those who aren’t excellent candidates.) Not every college has a good premed program.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
It’s a hard competitive process.

You need to take Math oriented Chemistry and Physics in high school, biology, you should have some foreign language.

You apply to most general universities for a Pre-Medical (a Bio-Chemistry type major) which means you take lots of college Math, anatomy, phisiology, Organic Chemistry, biology.

YOu need a high GPA and letters of recomendation would be nice

Then you and 4,000 others apply to a Medical School that takes 40-50 applicants a years so you apply to many schools and hope one takes you.

Then you go to Medical school for 4 years of which half of the first two years is on the job training in the hospital, sometimes 100 hours straight on-call work.

The second two years is mostly in the hospital.

Then you graduate with a DM or MD and apply to a teaching hospital to intern for a year. After that you take the test for your license and go into OB/GYN residency by applying to teaching hospitals that have OB/GYN departments, once again hundreds apply and they select maybe 6 to 10 a year. Then you resident for 3-5 years. If you go all the way to your 4th year as a senior resident you can then take the Boards test to be certfied in OB/GYN.

The whole process takes about 13 years.

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A few days ago
ndgrad
First you’re going to have to go to a university with a respectable pre-med program. While there, you’ll have to make really good grades and do volunteer work. You’ll have to establis good relationships with some of your science professors so that they can write you good letters of recommendation for med school when you apply. Your junior year, you’ll prepare for the MCATS and then take them in April or October. You’ll have to score high. During the summers I suggest doing internships with doctors in the field you’d like to specialize in.

After the university, you’ll go to med school and spend four years there. While there, you’ll take other entrance exams. You’ll need to get residency at a hospital. Then you’ll take another couple of years to specialize in the OB/GYN field.

After you complete this, you’ll be a “woman doctor”!

It’s not that hard as long as you really have a passion for science and the field of medicine. You won’t learn medicine in undergrad, but you’ll be on your way. Some undergrad pre-med programs will make things hard in order to “weed out” students who aren’t serious about the field.

Right now, you can ask a loca OB/GYN if you can shadow him/her for a day. This will help you when you apply for internships.

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A few days ago
eri
You need a 4-year degree to apply to medical school – so that’s at least 5 years from now. Concentrate on taking a lot of math and science and preparing for undergrad.

Yes, it’s hard. We don’t want incompetant doctors.

Yes, it’s do-able. We have a lot of doctors.

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A few days ago
chickenlover(V)
Yes it is hard but it is very worth it. You have to go to medical school for 5 years and get your degree. You also only work a few hours and get paid big time. Up to 10000$ a mounth
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A few days ago
Anonymous
First, you have to graduate college with a pre-med degree.

Then you go to medical school for a number of years.

Then you have a residency, which entails things like having two 72 hour shifts a week with a six hour break between them. And yes, that’s 72 consecutive hours, as in you’re up and working for three days, you get six hours to hopefully sleep, and then you’re up for another three days.

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A few days ago
Fly On The Wall
It must be doable. Look up “physicians and surgeons” in the yellow pages. Just look at all those doctors who did it.
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A few days ago
AJAPPA_KOMIBNUR_wordha
very simple.. if you solve this given problem, your problems will be solved automatically, but don’t be selfish – its Natural Formula –

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A few days ago
♫ Sweet Honesty ♫
I hope it’s hard!!!! It shouldn’t be easy to be in a position to be in charge of other people’s health.
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A few days ago
Anonymous
say your from iraq and you’ll get a job at the nhs no problem
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