What are the preliminary steps to become a neurosurgeon. aside fromgetting into a medical school w/ good grade
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neurosurgeon studies for an absolute minimum of 14 years before being legally qualified to poke inside someone's head. But even after four years pre-med, four years MD and six years of residency, many neurosurgical candidates cram in a two-year master's degree and follow their residency with a one- to two-year subspecialty fellowship, if not significant Ph.D. research in neuroscience. And if you think that's a long haul as an impoverished student, try doing it while all your med school buddies are living large on GP salaries\nSo what makes neurosurgery a dream job? "The rewards are great. To make a diagnostic home run in this highly competitive arena is enormously self-validating. Finding you've developed 24-carat fingers performing a particular procedure over time is truly satisfying. And just imagine the life-changing results one can achieve with patients. The gratification of shaking the hand of someone who was formerly paralyzed is incomparable." \n\nalso see this link http://careerfocus.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/working_in:neurosurgery
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You first need a bachelor's degree in either a pre-med program, a bio med program, microbiology, or chemistry.  Then you need to pass the MCAT and get into medical school.  The medical school will have a specific degree plan for you.  You will also need to take licensing and/or certification exams depending on your state of practice.
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Assuming you're already a college student. \n\n(1)Freshman/Sophomore Year College: make sure you are premed. This will ensure that you are taking the right courses for medical school entrance. Study hard, work hard and play hard too. Make sure you are involved in clubs/sports/jobs etc.\n\n(2)Junior/Senior Year: TAKE THE MCAT!!! Also, make sure you're GPA is to the tune of 3.7 to 4.0, and that you've done research and volunteered in a healthcare setting. Apply to medical schools; particularly those known for primary care.\n\n(3)Once you've been accepted: You are going to take basic med school classes years 1 and 2. Afterwards, in years 3 and 4 you will be broken down into specialties. You'll make 'rounds' at area hospitals where you finally get a chance to work w/children.\n\n(4)After graduating med school, you'll have a 3-5 year residency where you'll get paid to work in pediactrics while senior doctors monitor your progress.\n\n(5) You become a full fledged pediatrician!\n\n**Persona wise: make sure you are a friendly, understanding and compassionate person. Also, are you a carefully/cautious person? When you work w/children there is no room for error. Messing up in dosage / surgery could kill a child faster than an adult.
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To become a plastic surgeon, you have to get a Bachelor of Science degree from an undergraduate college (and take the required pre-med courses), which usually takes 4 years.  \n\nNext, you have to attend a medical school for 4 years... I'm guessing this is the school you are referring to when you ask for the "best colleges"... notable medical schools are Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Washington U, etc... The US News top medical schools for 2007 list is at: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php\n\nAfter medical school, you do a total of 6 years of residency training (3 years in general surgery & 3 in plastics).\n\nGood Luck!
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go to a regular 4 year university first, get a degree, then apply for med school
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Go to college and study pre-med. Then go to medical school.
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finish high school  go to college maintain a minimum GPA of 3.5 in college apply to several med  schools be good in med school and then go for surgery inter-ship . although as well find scholarships etc because will be expensive . but she can do all she wants if she work hard for  it  and has your support in the way to reach that goal
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I know they look at the MCAT the hardest. Then they look at your science GPA. I have been told many times a 3.0 GPA will get you into med school. You of course need to take alot of sciences (biology, gen chem, organic chem, and biochem, physics) to prepare for the MCAT. \n\nI am currently in my junior year at UAB (university of alabama at birmingham) and am taking the MCAT in 2006 after I finish with my last physics semester in Spring 06. My GPA is 3.4 and have had 2 years of MD (CP200) shadowing from Burn Unit, STICU, ER and OR. I also have a big family history of physicians. Also its not a bad idea to shadow a MD who is actually on the board of the med school you are applying to. Also the interview is one of the most crucial parts. Don't have a interview and say you are doing it for the $$$. Medical school is not about book knowledge. It's about being able to work in a group and working with all kinds of patients. You will never be able to learn everything, it's all experience. I want to go into Neurosurgery or Cardiothoracic surgery. I need to go into 4 years of college, 4 years of med school, and then 3 years of specializing. You still will not know everything there is, and the only way you can learn is by having years of experience. I have heard that it takes of 10 years just for neurosurgeons to experienced enough to be experts in their field. This is why most of the good physicians are pretty old. EXPERIENCE!\n\nAlso, do not limit yourself to one or two med schools. Apply to every med school you know. You never know when a school decides to give someone a break and try them out. Good luck.\n\nI hope this helped you.
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In the U.S., a good start would be to complete a course of studies in a science degree.  This should get you the prerequisit biologies I & II, microbiology, chemistries I & II, physics, calculus and anatomy & physiology.  Apply for and take the GRE, and then apply to the medical school of your choice.  Also apply with the national registry.
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You have a long way to go before worrying too much.  Get into college first, do well in undergrad.  Get into med school.  There is a long way ahead of you, and you have to make sure this is what you really want.  Honestly, not having all A's in 10th grade won't bar you from med school.  I know people that got B's in some Biology courses that got into med school just fine and are well on their way to being doctors.  But Undergrad is generally a lot harder than High School, and Med School is infinitely harder than undergrad, so if you're struggling with straight A's right now, just think what it will be like to struggle for straight A's in college.  I'm not trying to discourage you, but there is a lot to do before you're really ready to become a doctor.  After high school the next 12 years of your life are devoted to becoming the best damn doctor you can be.\n\nThe 12 years after high school are generally, 4 years of undergrad (Pre-Med), 4 years of Med-School, and mostly 4 years of a residency, depends on the specialty.  The undergrad years are generally your most fun, but are still crucial.  Now I don't want you to be a naive little gunner and overwhelm yourself like most pre-meds, so watch out for scheduling yourself to do too much (volunteering at the hospital, trying to do some extra research, taking too many hard classes at once, doing shadowing rotations).  And while you are doing extra curriculars, make sure you're making them worthwhile, like if you're shadowing a pediatrician, ask them as many questions as you can without coming off annoying.  Just do your best in these years, and keep your GPA high and study as much as you can for the MC AT (Expect to study up to 6-8 hours a day).  Then once you do get accepted into a med-school, prepare for the first stage of hell.  It will involve constant studying, with maybe a few hours A WEEK for fun, and not much time for you to have a fun life.  A residency is your next step, and once you're there, you will spend time running around the hospital picking up as much info as you can on how to become a pediatrician.\n\nJust don't buy into all the glam our of the life of a doctor, you might change your mind about becoming one, or might change your specialty, or who knows.  There is a lot of work ahead of you kid, and I wish you the best of luck, but make sure you have your wits about you, and actually understand the profession inside and out.  And understand that you'll end up in debt most likely, and that family life will be really hard while in med school.  Realize that malpractice insurance comes with the job, and that not just bad doctors get sued.  Becoming a pediatrician is one of the most prestigious careers you can choose, but it comes with so many hardships that anyone who is too weak will be sorted out very quickly, make sure you know what you're in for, and that you're strong enough to make it.  Best of luck.
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you'll need to attend a 4 year college where you MUST take\n1. 1 year of general chemistry\n2. 1 year of organic chemistry\n3. 1 year oh physics\n4. 1 year of biology\ndepending on the medical school you choose, you may also need a semester of math, english, and a humanity (history, philosophy, ect.)\n\nyou also need to take the MCAT during your junior year of college. the mcat tests your ability to retain knowledge, and be able to apply it to an unfamiliar situation. which is essentially what doctors do.\n\nthe test is divided into 4 sections, physical science (half physics and half general chemistry), biological science (2/3 biology and 1/3 organic chemistry), verbal reasoning, and a writing section.\nphysical science, bio science, and verbal are each scored on a scale of 1-15 points. so a 45 is the maximum. to get into medical school, you need a 30, meaning at least a 10 from each section. writing is scored by a letter grade from J to T (j being the worst, t the best)\nso your score looks like this: 32P \nthe MCAT is an 8 hour test, and by the time you take it, it will be on the computer.\n\nduring medical school you'll study your anatomy, biochemistry, virology, ect, mostly during your first two years, then your last two years you do rotations, meaning you get to try all the medical specialties like surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, ect. \nyou graduate medical school.\nthen you get to discover the circus that is the match. \nyou apply for a specialty, pediatrics, at a certain hospital where you will be taught the ins and outs of your specialty. you'll be an md, but you'll essentially be "in training" for a number of years. \noh yes, the USMLE (us medical licensing exam) which has 3 steps, which you need to take to be an official doctor. the first two steps are taken during med school, the last one is taken during your residency.\nafter you complete your residency you try to get a "real" doctor spot, which is called an attending position, where you treat your own patients and have your own group of doctor wannabees to train.\n\nthrer's a LOT that i haven't covered, but that's everything in a nutshell.\n\ngood luck.
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It is funny that you are a neurosurgeon, in 8th grade, and 16 all at the same time.\n\nIf you are asking if you'll be busy by becomming one, then the answer is yes. You have to get a degree, then go to med school and then do years of trainning before you can operate on the brain. So yes you will be busy with school, and then once you are one, you will be in surgery for hours and hours. Because when you are operating on the brain, you just can't leave whenever.
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You must take the MCAT.  Since you have a science major, you probably could get into a med school with a decent score on the MCAT.  I don't know if there are any other tests you may need to take because you are from a different country.  Start visiting college websites and contact admissions.  They will point you in the right direction.
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There is no fastest way. It requires years of study, and a dedication to the profession. Either branch of medicine takes a minimum of 12 years after high school, and a lot more if you want to do something as specialized as neurosurgery. In any case, this is not an easy career path, and definelety not something to choose if you just want to make money.
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Go to a 4-year school (preferably one with a good reputation), take the required prerequisite pre-med courses like Physics, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry... then take the MCAT test for acceptance into a medical school. Spend the next 4+ years in med school working crazy hours and doing rotations in all aspects of medicine (emergency, surgery, peds, etc.) then specialize in Ob/gyn. Hope this helps. Universities have more info on specific requirements for med school.
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If you've always wanted to be a doctor and you still want to be a doctor, then you should definitely pursue it.  You only need to take one year of college math as a prerequisite to medical school and you can get a tutor for that class if you're really bad at it. You can major in whatever you want and just take the required courses to get into med school: 1 year physics, 1 year chemistry, 1 year organic, 1 year biology, 1 year math, 1 year english (1 semester biochem and 1 semester genetics required by about 9 med schools).  You'll need to make sure your grades are high and your MCAT score is above average as well as staying active in other activities and being well-rounded. If it's always been your dream, then you should do it.  You are lucky that you know what you want to do.  Some people don't figure it out until they're 40 years old and then they feel it's too late to pursue their dreams.  You are young and know what you want.  Take advantage of this!
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There is a lot of steps to becoming a surgeon.  First you need to get a bachelor's degree in biology or some scinece field.  Then to medical school, this is 4 yrs.  After this you then specialize in surgery and that is several more years.  Don't forget about your internship and fellowship.