<p>I am so interested in medicine and the medical field, but I want a family. I want to provide, but also be there for them. Are there any majors/jobs related to this field that don't require more than four years of college?</p>
<p>Nursing? </p>
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<p>Paramedic?</p>
<p>Allied health professions. Radiology technician, that kind of thing. Physical, speech or occupational therapy.</p>
<p>Physician assistant positions require schooling after college- a great field.</p>
<p>You can work for a medical corporation on the business side. Hospitals and hospital corporations employee accountants, IT people, marketing staff, etc.</p>
<p>Rad tech, sonographer, respiratory therapist, nuclear medicine tech, registered nurse, physical therapy assistant. . .</p>
<p>Dietitian, dental hygienist, health information manager, cytotechnologist and more listed here:</p>
<p>[Allied</a> Health Professions | explorehealthcareers.org](<a href=“http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/Field/1/Allied_Health_Professions]Allied”>Surgical Technologist)</p>
<p>Dermatologist, podiatrist or any other doctors that don’t have to deal with emergencies :)</p>
<p>?? A dermatologist is a medical doctor. They go through 4 years of college, 4 years of med school and a derm residency. That doesn’t fit the OP’s criteria.</p>
<p>^^Actually, dermatologists do have emergency call.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565823[/url]”>http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565823</a></p>
<p>Spider and snake bites; necrotizing fascitis; burns; large, deep abrasions; and severe rashes of unknown origins–all require an ER consultation with dermatology.</p>
<p>Podiatry requires 4 years of post-grad training (Podiatry School), plus 1 year of clinical internship for licensing. Often podiatrists will do another 1-2 years of specialty fellowship training alongside orthopedic residents. (And yes, podiatrists also have emergency call.)</p>
<p>Physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy ALL require advanced degrees for licensure, and do not fit the “four years of college” criteria the OP has stated.</p>
<p>While you could get a nursing degree in 4 years or less, you will work many evenings, nights, weekends and holidays!</p>
<p>Nursing does have a variety of employment options in many different venues (hospitals, doctor offices, clinics, schools, student health centers, skilled care facilities, hospice, etc) as well as part time and full time options. Yes, you will likely have to work some weekends and evenings, and holidays…but there is good flexibility otherwise.</p>
<p>I work as a RN in a facility which is only open M-F. It is closed on major holidays and most days all cases are finished and patients recovered and sent home by 3:30. No nights, weekends, or holidays for me, though I worked my fair share of all of those when I worked at a hospital working 12 hour shifts.</p>
<p>You can get a RN license with an associate’s degree. The licensing exam is the same for ADNs as it is for BSNs, though opportunities for advancement may be more limited for the ADNs and some facilities are only hiring BSNs and requiring their currently employed ADNs to get their BSN within a given time window.</p>
<p>You can get an OT degree in 5 years total after HS. One of D’s friends got one from Boston U.</p>
<p>There also are a whole bunch of CNA/GNA/Med Tech/Phlebotomist/Pharma Tech options out there that can be completed in about a year. Check the credit and non-credit offerings at your local community college.</p>
<p>I’m reading Lean In right now, and this reminds me of a chapter about leaning back too early. You’re not even in college and already thinking about how to cut back to care for a nonexistent family. Pursue what you want to pursue, then figure out the rest later.</p>
<p>I hope I’m not opening a can of worms here. (What? On cc? Never!) ;)</p>
<p>HImom…check the requirements NOW. The schooling takes five years than a required year of unpaid rotations prior to taking the licensing exam.</p>
<p>Thumper-when did the requirements change for OT? I know several kids in 5 year OT programs; I thought it was an entry level Masters taking 5 years.</p>
<p>Yes…it is a five year OT program of classes followed by a one year set of rotations.</p>
<p>According to the Boston University website, they took their last admit to the combined BS/MSOT in 2012-2013. That program was five years of classes plus a minimum of 24 weeks of practicum following the courses.</p>
<p>Now they have a bachelors, followed by a full masters program.</p>
<p>It would be more than five years total.</p>
<p>Regardless…the OP is looking for programs that can be completed in FOUR years…and OT isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>I have a daughter finishing up her masters degree in OT (MSOT) this coming May. If you complete a traditional four-year undergraduate degree (as my daughter did), then a Masters in OT is two years of additional academic class work and then six months of required fieldwork (you can sit for your licensing exam 60 days after finishing your fieldwork). My daughter will “walk the stage” in May (after two years of academic classes) and “graduate”, but will only receive an empty diploma case (the same goes for all the MSOT’s). You must then do the six-month fieldwork rotation to receive your diploma (she’ll be officially finished with her required six month fieldwork rotation in December of next year and will then take the licensing exam in February). Several colleges do offer combined five year academic OT programs, but that does not include the required fieldwork. And you also have to know that you want to do OT from very early on (which my daughter did not) if you choose to do a combined program.</p>