What degrees do you need to have to be a pediatrician?

Answer 1

Only one degree is needed and that's a Medical degree. But you're still not a Pediatrician yet. After med school you would need to complete a residency in Pediatrics and it wouldn't hurt to do a Fellowship and become specialty certified in peds.

Answer 2

A pediatrician is a medical doctor -- a physician -- just like any other medical doctor. Therefore, the degrees needed, and the training, is pretty much the same as for any otherphysician, to wit: First, a four-year bachelors degree; and then, second, a four-year "MD" (medical doctor") degree.

Then, depending on the state's requirements, and the medical school's, there's typically a year of internship, and three years of residency.

Somewhere in there (again, it depends on the state and the medical school), the resident begins forcusing on (or "specializing" in) pediatric medicine, while other of his/her classmates specialize in other things... surgery, emergency medicine, urology, oncology, radiology, etc., etc.

So, then, pediatric medicine is just a specialization which begins sometime in residency. It's really as simple as that...

...er... well... almost. While it's theoretically as simple as that, there may, depending, again, on the state and/or the med school, additional coursework, or an additional year of residency, etc. If the pediatrician wants to become "board certified," then even more of both of those may be required.

Again, it all just depends on the state and/or the med school. Physicians, remember, are licensed by the state, and so there's really no one good answer for all 50 US states.

The above is also an oversimplification. There's a lot to know, for example, about what kind of bachelors degree best prepares one for med school. Generally, it's any bachelors that allows the student to take pretty much all the math and science that s/he can... though precisely what, and in what amounts, is the trick. And then there's a nationwide aptitude test, called the MCAT, that one must take.

And it's all so competitive that one must do extraordinarily well in both the bachelors degree and the MCAT, else one hasn't a chance of getting into med school. So there's more to it, generally speaking, than I've herein explained...

...but what I've herein explained at least covers the basics.

Answer 3

hay im zastra and im doing a project for school on a theme pediatrician

i was wondering for these Questions

1 whats the potential for growth in this job

2 education? training requirements

3 work settings / environment

4 benefits / perks of the job

and lastly number 5

related occupations

thank you

zastra van Der Merwe

North cross inter

age 11

Answer 4

You don't need a bachelor's degree for a pediatrician. You just need to be young enough. The vast majority of pediatricians treat people with no degree at all.