Being a Pediatrician is all about providing care from birth to early adulthood, pediatricians are concerned with the health of infant, children, and teenagers. They specialize in diagnosis and treatments of variety and ailments specific to young people and track their patients' growth to adulthood. If you want to become a pediatrician, you have to do a lot of work and study to complete. Especially advanced placement courses and offer college credits can eliminate some requirements when you go to college. Like most doctors', you will take a bachelor degree, usually in premed before heading off to medical school. This can vary slightly if your studying outside of the US, and some programs combine a bachelors degree and med school. Medical school takes approximately three years to complete and upon completion you need to take and pass required certifying tests. You’ll then need to complete additional training of up to four years to become a pediatrician. Most programs have residency and internship requirement that total three years and you are paid a small amount for participating in them. They can be competitive, and you’ll need to seek advice at your medical school on when to start applying for advanced internship. Some people who would like to become a pediatrician want to specialize in a certain aspect of medicine. For instance, there are pediatric cardiologists, oncologists and neurologists. Requirements may differ for each specialty.
A pediatric cardiologist first receives board certification as pediatrician. He or she will then spend up to three more additional years to be certified as a pediatric cardiologist. Total years studied for a pediatrician who decides to specialize can easily be up to 13 or 14 years. People who simply want to become a pediatrician without further specialization may spend 10-11 years in school prior to becoming certified as doctors for children. Being a pediatrician is fun job if you like children and making sure they are healthy.