Medical District
🩺 Physician
Doctors diagnose illness and injury, plan treatment, and guide patients and families through care decisions. Let's look at how someone gets there.
What they do
- Examine patients and order tests
- Diagnose conditions and prescribe treatment
- Coordinate with nurses and specialists
- Explain care plans in plain language
Skills you use
- Science reasoning
- Careful observation
- Communication
- Stamina and focus
School subjects that help
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 in
- Education or training
- Bachelor's degree, then medical school and residency training.
- College path
- Four-year degree with strong science coursework, then an MD or DO program.
- Trade or apprenticeship path
- Related hands-on entry points include EMT, phlebotomy, and medical assisting certificates.
- Ownership path
- Physicians can open private practices or community clinics.
The path from today
- TodayStudy Science, Health & Physical Education, Mathematics.
- Skills to buildScience reasoning · Careful observation · Communication · Stamina and focus
- Training stepsHigh-school biology and chemistry → Pre-med undergraduate coursework → Medical school → Residency in a specialty
- Education or trainingBachelor's degree, then medical school and residency training.
- Certifications & licensesState medical license · Board certification in a specialty
- CareerPhysician
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