Psychiatrist

Graduate School
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<p>I really like psychology but I hear people that major in it are bound to end up cleaning tables and mopping floors.
Is it really that unlikely that one would become a psychiatrist? Is the job market bad for that? Is it really competitive?</p>

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<p>u have to get a MD</p>

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<p>psychiatrists are medical doctors and have to do the whole med school route. you need a phd to be called a psychologist, which is also 6 years, and admissions for clinical psychology phd programs are tougher than med school admissions, with the nationwide acceptance rate of 5%.</p>

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<p>To answer your actual question, you really need to get a doctorate if you're going to be a psychologist.</p>

<p>If you get a bachelor's degree, you'll be mopping floors of a mental hospital figuratively. Really, you'll probably just end up teaching the high school class so go for the PhD, or at least masters.</p>

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<p>There are a ton of options in psychology. You just have to research them. Check out <a href="http://www.apa.org%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.apa.org&lt;/a> under the career section for that. As others have said, MD is for a psychiatrist and is more focused on biology while a psychologist has a PhD or PsyD (more counseling, less research). There are job oppurtunities available in both (you can always start your own business) but it takes a lot of hard work in getting into med or grad school (clinical/counseling acceptance rates are very low) and a lot of work to complete the education and do internships in it. You'd need good science and math skills to purse either of those paths.</p>

<p>A bachelors degree in Psychology can get people to think of what they think towards Liberal Arts degrees, that they'll never find "good" jobs. But psychology majors have other applicable skills to different jobs but in order to get them, internships, pursuing extra skills and interests and looking for oppurtunities are needed. There are also oppurtunities to get Masters degrees, other research degrees such as developmental, social, quantitative, industrial-organizational and cognitive that can be professors and other good jobs. My advice to you is to take Psychology courses to see what you're interested in, do research with your professors and try to try out through volunteering and internships what would be the best thing for you to do.</p>