How to get into the medical feild?

Study your butt off in high school. If you haven't taken them, take biology and science classes. Find a college with a strong pre-med program, and work your butt of there. Forget partying on weekends with the slackers. If you want to get into med school, you have to be able to compete with the smartest nerds in your state. Not your school - not your city - in your state. There are only so many spots in med. school, and the competition for them is INTENSE.

I hope you did well in your junior year, because the colleges are going to look at that when they are deciding whether to admit you. If they don't like what they see, you are going to get wait-listed, or bypassed. So unless your GPA was about 3.8, start studying now for your senior year classes. Find what text book your school uses, and start working your way through it.

If your ACT or SAT scores were just so-so, take a prep. course and take the test again. You need a killer score to get admitted early.

And if you think I'm just feeding you a line, wait until about April, when you're on pins and needles because nobody has admitted you already, and remember this message. I've seen it happen before. You need to really shine academically to get into med. school. And you need to really do well to get into a good pre-med program, too.

First do well in High School and get into a good college.

Then you can major in anything but is WISE to major in Biology or Chemistry. You'll need at least a 3.5+ GPA to get into any medical school. TAKE as many science classes as you can. There are already some classes you need to take anyways such as Inorganic, Organic, Biology, Calculus etc.

Then you take the MCATs which is a killer test to get into medicla school. You should aim for a 34+. Highest you can get is 45.

Then you go to medical school. Its another 4 years of learning. The first 2 years of medical school are mostly book work. Second year being the hardest out of the 2. Then the other 2 years are rotations where you explore many types of fields and you learns a little about each such as radiology, oncology, cardiology etc.

After you do that you apply for a residency. In your case you would want to apply for general surgery residency then move to specialty such as cardiovascular surgeon or neurosurgeon or orthopedic surgeon etc.

WARNING: Getting into a surgery residency is extremely hard, hardest being plastic. Other then plastic surgery all surgeons have cruel hours. A neurosurgeon might have a 2 hour operation or a 22 hour.

Well first you're going to need to go through college first. You can either major in pre-med or even Biology if you want. Then around the end of your junior year you will take the MCAT which, in addition to your college GPA, will determine how good of a medical school you get into. From here you will go to school and will learn about all the different friends and after a couple years you will start to concentrate on certain areas.

So don't worry, you have plenty of time. :)

The first thing that you need to do is volunteer at a hospital- you will see and learn more things by that than anything. You will be there to help in all the departments and you will be able to ask what does it take to be a doctor? Can you stand the sight of blood? Crying babies? Abused children? Then you will need to get the classes to help you get to college.After that then you can decide what exactly you want to aim for. Surgeons, General Practice, OB-GYN, talk to your parents and school counselor about what your goals are and how to get there-- Good Luck to you!!!

Well, you've got plenty of time to decide what kind of doctor and/or surgeon you want to be. You need a 4-year college degree to apply to medical school, and everyone does the same coursework before entering medical school. Pre-med courses are offered at pretty much any college, so find one you like and get started.

One of the most practical would be Latin. Many of the medical terms are rooted in that language. It will really help you decode the meaning of what is being said/written. The next most practical, especially in the south west and western parts of America would be Spanish. It would help you communicate with a large number of people. After that any language you learn will be useful some of the time.

well if you have to ask how you become a doctor and your gonna be a senior in highschool, i would say learn to use the internet more efficiently. you do 4 years of undergraduate work (usually pre-med or biology), 4 years of medical school, and then another 3 years of residency before your a full on doctor.

first off, these people who tell you to major in 'pre-med' dont know what theyre talking about -pre-med is not a major its just a list of courses you need to apply to med school. the second myth theyre telling you is that med schools prefer biology and chemistry majors. they DONT. they see thousands of these types of students applications and they are bored with the 3.5gpa bio major from a state university. theyre EVERYWHERE. to really make yourself standout you need a high gpa and great mcat scores, yes, but you also should major in something you LIKE and excel in that as well as the science courses you need. you also need lots of med setting experience and volunteer work, and some schools wont even consider you until youve done medical research, and some of them even require your research be published (thats very difficult). dont even waste your time picking a specialty in surgery now. youre only in high school; youll just end up changing your mind 100 times! even students entering medical school for the most part dont have a clue what they will be specializing in. you dont have to know that for literally at least 6 years. you will need to earn a degree in anything you want from a university, but you must take: 4 semesters of bio (inc biochemistry and genetics for most schools), 2 semesters nonorganic chem and 2 semesters organic, 2 semesters of physics, english and many schools require calculus and/or statistics (actually i go to northwestern and theyre the only school i know of that require statistics, but i found it useful). its hard to know for sure if you want to be a surgeon without knowing whether you can handle it- you will probably become aware of this when you get to med school and have to dissect a cadaver or when you go through the surgery part of your internship. a lot of med students faint, but thats besides the point (dont worry about that now). you also have to do extremely delicate procedures, so you have to have the talent to do so or, as some say "gifted hands". on the other hand, you might be in med school and decide you want to do oncology or family practice- something completely different. why do you want to be a surgeon? you need to ask yourself why you want to be a dr. is it to help people? or is it for a more shallow reason, like money or prestige, or you just think it would be cool? or is it because they make it look glamorous and exciting on grey's anatomy and e.r.? (believe me, its anything but glamorous being a surgeon, or any type of doctor. you will be at the hospital for 9/10ths of your life, so you have to make sure you want to devote this time to total strangers in order to improve their health, and a lot of the work is much more tedious than you see on t.v.) people who do it for the superficial reasons rarely make it through and are quite miserable i might add. if you do make it to med school, (its very cut-throat and extremely competitive so be prepared to work your butt of to get into any med school!), and you still want to be a surgeon only you can answer what kind of surgery you want to practice. just know that to specialize in a type of surgery you will need: at least 4 years of undergrad, then 4 years of med school, at least 4 years of residency in general surgery and then at least 2-3 years of fellowship work. surgery is one of the most competitive medical fields so the top students of the med schools graduating class usually snag the fellowships, so work hard! to give yourself an extra advantage, and if you have really good grades and extra-curriculars now, in high school, apply to a few of the top schools- a lot of med schools give students who come from top schools more leeway. just look up "top u.s. schools for pre-meds" on google. if youre THIS clueless and youre already going to be a senior in h.s., you really really need to know how rigorous, thankless and exhausting it is to be a doctor, and you must have a truly altruistic heart. it is imperative that you are extremely tough, because dr.'s see death all the time, from the elderly to newborn babies. its very sad and it takes a very strong person to handle it. youll also be underpaid for many many years and working overnight at the hospital every week, and will probably clock about 80-100 hours per week, aspecially as a resident, but many surgeons and other types of doctors clock in this many hours throught their career (and no im not exaggerating, 80-100 is the AVERAGE) good luck and please enjoy your youth! you dont have to worry about a specific fellowship you may want to get 12 years down the road!