Q&A: What college courses are required for someone wanting to become a psychiatrist?
Question by Mike Kalash: What college courses are required for someone wanting to become a psychiatrist?
what majors are needed? is it necessary to enroll in chemistry courses for this?
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You sytart by becoming a Dr
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im thinking in this area applying i was told to take chem 30 and phycology courses in teach if possible other than that try out out websites for the schools cause every teach has a uncommon standard
You must enroll in Health check teach to be a psychiatrist.
You have to take the premedical coursework required by the health check schools you might want to attend. In the USA, this would be (at a minimum), general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, and physics. Some health check schools have additional requirements such as calculus or recommendations such as biochemistry. See the book Health check Teach Admission Requirements for details.
With taking premedical coursework as an undergraduate (usually four years) and then going to health check teach (a further four years), you would enter a psychiatry residency (four more years) to become a psychiatrist.
You can major in anything, as long as you do all the math/science/English pre-reqs [including chem]. You’ll need to earn at least a 3.5 GPA, get fantastic MCAT scores, have strong recommendation letters [so make sure you cultivate a relationship with a prof that will facilitate that] and, ideally, work experience in the field [e.g. working in a prof's lab - two birds with one marble, there!] in order have a opportunity of getting into med teach.
Then you have four long, demanding, pressure-filled, debt-ridden years [no financial aid to speak of unless you're a genius] in med teach. You won’t get much education in psychiatry per se, most likely only one course. But you may possibly do a psych rotation in the clinical years.
Then you have three to four killer years of psych residency. [80-hour work weeks, frequent on-call in the hospital - hopefully you'll get a couple hours of sleep and maybe even be able to eat!]. End the National Board exams and the neuro-psych boards and, by the time you’re in this area 30, you’ll be ready to go into practice.