What classes are neccessary in high school and college to become a Cardiologist. For college what are the classes like. If you can help please reply thank you
What you take in high school and college are irrelevant to becoming a Cardiologist. Focus on getting good grades for now. Cardiologists are trained as follows:
1. High School
2. College
3. Medical School
4. Residency in Internal Medicine
5. Fellowship to sub-specialize in Cardiology
So, you have a decade + until you are auditioning for Cardiology.
Thats not true at all. Cardiology is very competitive. If you want a realistic chance of getting in, you need to start preparing now! In high school take as many AP or IB classes as you can, especially in the sciences and make sure you get As. If you do not have basically straight As in high school the chances if you being able to handle the rigors of college and become a cardiologist are very slim. Make sure you take classes such as anatomy in high school, and spend extra time studying the heart.
Next you should start prepping for the MCAT durring your senior year of high school, not a lot, but 4-ish hours a week. This way the material will be second nature to you by the time you take the exam.
You should also look into becoming an EKG tech, you should start practicing reading EKGs now, so that when medical school starts you will be able to impress doctors and gain LOR. You should also start shadowing a cardiologist immediately, you will need to shadow 1 for several hundred hours.
tl:;dr: Nothing you do now matters, just have fun and get good grades in college.
I read the first sentence, and I was like, Really? I thought I had my facts straight.Oh man, theduck, I was so ready to tear right into you until I got to the end of your post. lol... whew
Oh man, theduck, I was so ready to tear right into you until I got to the end of your post. lol... whew
I must admit, I'm rather proud of that post.
Thats not true at all. Cardiology is very competitive. If you want a realistic chance of getting in, you need to start preparing now! In high school take as many AP or IB classes as you can, especially in the sciences and make sure you get As. If you do not have basically straight As in high school the chances if you being able to handle the rigors of college and become a cardiologist are very slim. Make sure you take classes such as anatomy in high school, and spend extra time studying the heart.
Next you should start prepping for the MCAT durring your senior year of high school, not a lot, but 4-ish hours a week. This way the material will be second nature to you by the time you take the exam.
You should also look into becoming an EKG tech, you should start practicing reading EKGs now, so that when medical school starts you will be able to impress doctors and gain LOR. You should also start shadowing a cardiologist immediately, you will need to shadow 1 for several hundred hours.
tl:;dr: Nothing you do now matters, just have fun and get good grades in college.