Career Paper
The career I chose to research is a pediatrician. I already know a little bit about this career because I am interested in pursuing it. A pediatrician is a doctor who specializes with working with children. I know that to become a pediatrician it involves going through a lot of schooling. You must go through four years of undergraduate and 4 years of medical school. After graduating from medical school, you must go through years of residency before becoming a pediatrician. I know pediatricians make a good living, but I am not sure exactly how much they make. I believe they do not start making a lot of money until after their years of residency is over. My questions are how many years of residency does a pediatrician typically have, exactly how much money do pediatricians make, and when do they begin to make this amount of money? A pediatrician is a children’s physician who provides preventive health care for healthy children and medical care for children who are acutely or chronically ill. Pediatricians deal with the physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of their patients from birth to the age of 21. Pediatricians diagnose and treat injuries, infections, genetic defects, and organic diseases and dysfunctions. Pediatricians are not only concerned with the physical well being of their patients, but also things like behavioral difficulties, developmental disorders, functional problems, social stresses, and depression or anxiety disorders. Pediatrics is considered a specialty but it has subspecialties within it. Subspecialties include cardiology, critical care medicine, infectious disease, endocrinology, etc. In order to become a pediatrician, you must go through many years of schooling. Four years of undergraduate school is required, and during these four years you want to major in areas of studies like biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, or different pre-medicine programs. After four years of undergraduate, a test called the MCAT (Medical College