what is pediatrics all about?
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Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents (from newborn to age 18 or 19).
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Yes there is a lot of demand for Pediatricians. This is a medical speciltiy that does not pay as well as most others so it is less attractive to med students than some of the others. However depending on who you listen to there will be too many or too few in the future.\n\nHere is an excerpt from an article you may want to read\n\nOn the other hand, large financial rewards have never been the goal of pediatricians. If I were counseling a medical student who was interested in general pediatrics, I would advise them to pursue their interests and not be dissuaded by forecasts that the job market was bleak. The cream rises to the top, and there have always been opportunities for skilled pediatricians. In a similar vein, projections about the future vary with the predictor. Although Shipman et al1 are concerned about an oversupply of pediatricians, Cooper et al12 have predicted a physician shortfall. We are left wondering whether we need to upsize or downsize and hope that, with our efforts, we do not capsize the entire system.
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Its an over all term meaning that the child is ok by the standards set by state and federal guidelines. It doenst mean any thing bad just that they are basically fine as far as that level of research discovered. The child is in good health...
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It is a list of all chemical used in a certain area,store, or home.  It tells you what the products use is for, what to do for medical help if it is hazardous, what chemicals make it up, how to store it, and all the necessities if someone was to come in contact with it who didn't have a clue what it was used for.  Say for instance someone accidentally swallowed a chemical, Medical professionals, If it needed immediate action, would know how to treat and what actions to take.  God Bless.  Hope this link can help.
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For just about every sub-specialty that general physicians have, there are ones for children.  Examples:\n\nPediatric Neurology\nPediatric Gastroenterology\nPediatric Psychiatry\nPediatric Oncology\n\nMore subspecialties listed here:\n\nhttp://www.vcu.edu/pediatrics/overview/divisions.html
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It depends on what you want to do.\n\nTo be a pediatrician, you will need to go to medical school and get an M.D.\n\nTo be a registered nurse (R.N.) or a licenced practical nurse (L.P.N.) you will need to go to nursing school.  LPNs go for about 2 years, RNs go for about 4.\n\nThere are also certified nursing assistants (C.N.A.) which is a very short program (usually about 6 weeks), but I think you would find few positions in pediactrics.\n\nThese days, LPN programs are taught at many technical schools and there is much financial aid available due to the fact that most areas are experiencing shortages of qualified nurses.  So if you are interested, I would highly reccommend it.  Good luck to you.
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Pediatric Nurse, you can work in a hospital with the newborns. I had considered it when I was thinking about a career.
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You are going to want to focus on biology, chemistry, psychology, and child development.  You are going to do 4 years of undergrads, maybe with a pre-med major, psych or child development minor, followed by medical school, internship, and residency.
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well, a pediatrician is a doctor that works with children. you go to med school and then the last year your specialization is pediatricy
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Adult subject matter for kids:\nLost and Delirious: gossip, the meaning of love and the lack of love, friendship\n\nSkipped Parts: Teenage pregnancy, gossip, abortion\n\nLawn Dogs: gossip, friendship, parent/children relationship, and corruption from money.\n\nSet Me Free: Dreams vs reality in the mind of a teenager
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Physical Therapy focuses on the lower extremities\nOccupational Therapy focuses on the upper extremities\n\nPT focuses on gait, walking, mobility\nOT focuses on dexterity of your hands to perform everyday tasks like cooking, hygeine, etc.\n\nYour Major would be Physical or Occupational Therapy with emphasis in pediatrics.
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Look up pediatricians in your local phonebook and start calling. Most people (in my experience anyway) are happy to talk to you about what they do for a living.
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Well there really isn't such a thing as a pre-med major. In most schools that say they have a pre-med program really have a student major in one of the sciences and take the requisite courses toward medical school (and there really are very few required courses--gen chem, organic chem, majors biology, physics, and sometimes genetics). Pre-health has arisen to include those students who want to go to vet school, dental school, optometry school, etc. But, the requirements are not all that much different for all the health professions, so I don't think it really matters what you call it.\n\nI would want to make a decision based not on what they call it, but what results they have. Ask each of the schools you are considering to tell you their acceptance rate to medical school. How many of their students go on to medical school? If they tell you they don't know or that very few students go to medical school then you probably want to consider why that is.\n\nThe other thing you want to find out is what support they offer you. What kind of premedical/prehealth advising do they offer? What kind of preparation programs (MCAT prep, interview prep, etc) do they offer?\n\nRemember, also, that you don't have to be a science major to get into medical school. You just need your basic science courses. Consider that if a social science or humanities major might work for you then you can pursue that. Remember that they will teach you all the science you need in medical school. Use undergraduate school to help you learn to think about complex problems, communicate well orally and in writing, understand the world and people in it, appreciate diversity and the differing views of others. Since you want to be a pediatrician take some elective courses in child psychology, family studies, things like that. Pediatricians have to work with a much broader segment of persons and are much more relationship oriented than are many of the other specialties.\n\nGood luck to you!
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This is absolutely fantastic.\n\nHow about:  Acclimating Children: Medical Awareness 101
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I would suggest that you think about whether you are interested in the practice of medicine (that is, actually applying what you have learned to the direct care of patients), or the science of medicine (understanding how the body works and what specifically happens when things go wrong and you get sick).\n\nIf you're interested in practicing medicine, you should know that the field is basically divided into two areas: surgery and medicine.  Surgeons do alot of work with their hands, often times cutting into the body to access internal organs.  Non-surgeons, on the other hand, monitor the health of people (pediatricians monitor the health of kids under 18, for example) and are trained to recognize specific diseases, manage them appropriately (with medications and/or lifestyle changes), or refer the patient to a specialist (such as a surgeon).\n\nIt sounds more complicated than it is, and the truth is that there is no way for you to know what type of doctor you want to be until you get to medical school and try out the different areas.  You don't choose what type of doctor you will be until the last year of medical school.\n\nIf you are interested in the science of medicine more than the practice, you might consider a PhD program or better yet, a combined MD/PhD program, where you'll truly bridge the gap between understanding the basic mechanisms of disease and health and applying that understanding to the actual treatment of patients.
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anything in medicine or healthcare
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Anantomy, physiology,pathology,pharmacology, dianostic techniques, pediatric basics, internal medicine basics, opthomology basics, basic surgery basics,obstetrics basic,dermatology, orthopedics,and the list goes on and on. This will give you a general idea of the course you have to take in medical school.