Allopathic Physician (M.D.)
Part 1 Duties and responsibilities:
Allopathic
Physicians, M.D.s, are medical doctors who treat disease and injury using
counteractive methods. For example, they will prescribe antibiotics to kill
bacteria that have caused an infection. Allopathic physicians often work in
public or private hospitals or clinics and many have private practices. Their
work hours can be long and irregular. Although many allopathic physicians
become internists, generalists, or family practitioners, most specialize in
other medical fields.
Specialties
include:
· Anesthesiologist-administers
anesthesia
· Cardiologist-treats heart disease
· Dermatologist-treats skin conditions
· Gastroenterologist-treats digestive
problems
· Gerontologist-provides care for
elderly system problems
· Neurologist-treats brain and nervous
system problems
· Obstetrician-provides pregnancy care
and delivers babies
· Oncologist-treats skeletal problems
· Pathologist-interprets disease in
tissues
· Pediatrician-provides care for
children
· Pulmonologist-treats respiratory
problems
· Surgeon-performs operations
· Urologist-treats urinary problems
Allopathic Physician (M.D.)
Part 2
Educational
Requirements:
Students
should take the most challenging high school course (including AP course)
available in Science, Math, and English.
After three
or four years of college prospective physicians must attend medical school.
Undergraduate requirement for admission
to all medical school include one year of basic chemistry, one year of organic
chemistry, one year of biology, and one year of Physics. Some medical schools
also require course work in calculus, English, the humanities, or social
science.
Medical
schools usually include two years of additional study in both basic and
clinical sciences and is followed by a
year-long hospital internship. Physicians who want to specialize must then
undertake a three-year residency in their specialty
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