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🩺 PHYSICIAN
Doctors diagnose illness and injury, plan treatment, and guide patients and families through care decisions.
What you'd do day to day
- • Examine patients and order tests
- • Diagnose conditions and prescribe treatment
- • Coordinate with nurses and specialists
- • Explain care plans in plain language
Skills that matter
- • Science reasoning
- • Careful observation
- • Communication
- • Stamina and focus
Training steps
- • High-school biology and chemistry
- • Pre-med undergraduate coursework
- • Medical school
- • Residency in a specialty
Certifications & licenses
- • State medical license
- • Board certification in a specialty
Every route into this career
Education
Bachelor's degree, then medical school and residency training.
College route
Four-year degree with strong science coursework, then an MD or DO program.
Trade / apprenticeship route
Related hands-on entry points include EMT, phlebotomy, and medical assisting certificates.
Business ownership
Physicians can open private practices or community clinics.
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