<p>Hey Ya'll!
Quick question, I'm deciding on majors and schools this year, but I have a few career options in mind:</p>
<p>Endocrinologist: specializing in juvenille diabetes
3rd grade teacher
Anestesgiologist</p>
<p>Does anyone know much on endocriniology. I know anestesiologists have to go to 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency, and major in something science related.
Anyone know about endocriniologists?</p>
<p>First, spell the damn word right: endocrinologist. </p>
<p>All MDs must undergo 8 years or 8 yrs worth of schooling. Endocrinologists study hormones and related diseases.</p>
<p>thanks. I didn't realized I'd added the extra 'i' to the endocrinologist. What would be a good college major, or school though for this?</p>
<p>Endocrinologists deal with the endocrine system, which does include hormones, but also the glands and network itself. </p>
<p>It doesn't matter what college major you choose...there is no "Med Major", you just have to meet all the requirement for medical school...like chemistry, calc, mol bio, etc.</p>
<p>People mispell words all the time bendumfront. get over it and move on.</p>
<p>Okay, now I guess my big question is, is this going to allow me to specialize in juvenille diabetes??</p>
<p>well, after you get through your 4 years of college and hit med school, you will choose Endocrinology as your focus (as opposed to neurosurgery, cardiology, etc). You complete med scool as a doctor in endocrinology, then you specialize in juvenile diabetes after you've become a doctor. This is done when your an intern, resident, and so forth.</p>
<p>if you think you want to be an endocrinologist how can you not have 5 minutes of your time to research the job?</p>
<p>not sure if you know this, but an endocrinologist is indeed a doctor which means you have to go to college, med school, residency, and since it's a subspeciality, a fellowhip.</p>
<p>You will most likely have to do an internship in internal medicine, 4 years i believe followed by a fellowship, 3 years i believe. You will be dealing with problems related to the various glands or hormones. </p>
<p>hope this helps.</p>
<p>thanks for further explaining the topic. i am by no means an expert.</p>
<p>It doesn't matter what you do in college, major in whatever you want (you just have to take the required pre-med courses). Then you get into medical school, do that for 4 years, and then choose what kind of medicine you want to go into. Go into the pre-med topics forum, the people there know a lot more than I do about the whole process.</p>
<p>Hey,
Thanks everyone. And I did research it on google but I couldn't come up with anything specializing in diabetes or the education of.</p>
<p>well yes let me re-emphasize that endocrinology also deals with diabeties and metabolic disorders</p>
<p>i shadowed an endocrinologist. basically the doc dealt with a lot of diabetics patients. like a family doc, but more specialized.</p>
<p>"It doesn't matter what you do in college, major in whatever you want (you just have to take the required pre-med courses)."</p>
<p>THANK YOU. This is one bit of wisdom that needs to be voiced repeatedly. </p>
<p>I know med school students who majored in English, Drama, and even Women's Studies.</p>
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First, spell the damn word right: endocrinologist. </p>
<p>All MDs must undergo 8 years or 8 yrs worth of schooling. Endocrinologists study hormones and related diseases.
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<p>I'm afraid you are also quite incorrect, and it is more then a spelling error</p>
<p>The number of years an MD spends in school depends almost entirely on the area this MD chooses to go to school and practice. In fact many MD degrees are given out in just 5 years whereas some take longer. One must also factor in residency.</p>
<p>Haha.</p>
<p>Hm....welllll, I think I WOULD KNOW as my parents ARE endocrinologists. Ya, it's 8 years.</p>
<p>bump bump!</p>
<p>college: 4 years or whatever it takes
Med school: 4 years (unless you go for an MD/PhD, in which case add Phd time.)
internal medicine residency: 3 years
fellowship in endocrinology: 2 years (I think, i'm not an endocrinologist.)</p>
<p>It's kind of odd to decide on what medical subspecialization you would want when you aren't even in college frankly. Just focus on getting into medical school.</p>
<p>residency and fellowship are not school. They are considered "training." It is a job. You get paid (though not very much.) </p>
<p>You will be able to be licensed as an MD after 1 year of "training." You can moonlight if you want. </p>
<p>Endocrinology is a subspeciality of internal medicine.</p>
<p>In reading these posts I'm wondering if I was this clueless when I was in highschool.</p>
<p>I agree with pencilpusher. Focus on college. Then focus ahead on med school. You've got a nearly a decade before you even begin to decide on specialties. Wait a bit :)</p>