Questios from High School Sophmore

[DutchCoco]

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Hi everyone, thanks for reading. I just have a few questions that I wanted to get answered. I'm considering becoming a doctor and if I do, my top choices are OB/GYN and Pediatrician.

1. First of all, am I right in thinking it's 8 years of school and then three years of residency?

2. What do you have to do to get an residency? What do you do during those three years?

3. After the residency, where do they work? At the hospital, private practice...

4. What's the typical schedule like?

5. What are the pros and cons?
Oh, and I just thought of one more. What are the best colleges for Pre-Med and the best medical schools?
Thanks in advance for the answers!

 

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1. First of all, am I right in thinking it's 8 years of school and then three years of residency?

FOUR years of residency for ob/gyn. THREE years of residency for pediatrics.

2. What do you have to do to get an residency? What do you do during those three years?

In order to get a residency, you should have good Step 1 exam scores, do well on your third year rotations, and (basically) pass all of your classes. It's a very long process that you'll understand better if you read the clinical rotations forum.

What do you do during residency? Work really, really hard....

Seriously, as a resident, you take care of patients - sort of like the doctors that you see on TV (except the hours are generally much, much worse, and you don't look nearly as good doing it). As an ob/gyn resident, you will take turns delivering babies, doing gynecological surgery, doing gynecology oncology, working in the outpatient clinic, etc. You will have a senior doctor (an "attending") supervising you. The hours are difficult, and the pressures are heavy.

3. After the residency, where do they work? At the hospital, private practice...

They can work in a hospital or in private practice.

4. What's the typical schedule like?

Typical schedule of an attending, a resident, or a med student?

What are the best colleges for Pre-Med and the best medical schools?

There's no such thing. You can get into any med school basically from any college in the US - as long as it's a four year college that awards you a bachelor's degree. There's no such thing as a "best" medical school - check out the pre-allopathic forum, where this issue is debated ad nauseum.