Dr Syed Azhar Rizv Case Study

par. 5). Becoming a doctor takes many years of education, overall to become a pediatrician it takes 8+ years of schooling. Future pediatricians need to take four years of medical school, 4 years of residency, and additional specialty training. ("Careers in Medicine: Specialty Information."

The student will learn about the body as well as the mind and how to treat all types of illnesses. The student will have to pass internal medicine, neurology, emergency medicine and many other courses. When deciding on which sub-specialty, The student could choose between: emergency psychiatry, neuropsychiatry and many more. After acquiring a D.O. or an M.D., the student will have to spend four years in residency, which means getting hands-on experience with patients.

Students can also seek management positions in physical therapy or start their own physical therapy practice. Most doctoral degree programs take about three years to finish. To enroll and get accepted into a physical therapy doctoral degree program, students must have a bachelor's degree in physical therapy. Requirements vary by program but personal statements and submission of official transcripts is usually required. In a doctoral degree program, most of the coursework is based on advanced physical therapy research.

Psychiatry is a challenging field but before someone can commit or give up on this field, they must know how to do it and know what type of psychiatry they would want to do. Psychiatrists are doctors who assess people with mental or physical issues and treat them properly. There are multiple types of psychiatrists, such as addiction, adult, child or adolescent, organizational, geriatric, forensic, and neuropsychiatrics. There are also different levels these types can be treated. Patients could be treated on an individual level, which is one on one therapy.

Classes taken in high school should include biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, geometry, calculus, psychology, sociology, history, and english(“Psychiatrists”). Many psychiatrists have post secondary certificates and have experience as a nursing assistant or a practical nurse. They also tend to have degrees in psychiatric or mental health technology, also including a high school diploma(“Psychiatric Technicians and Aides”). To apply to medical schools, a bachelor’s degree is required. Medical schools take four years to complete with another four years after for residency training(“Psychiatrist”).

The Physician Assistant degree is a two year Master’s degree, offered multitude of colleges across the nation. (American Academy of PAs) This field was created, as there was a gap in the physician shortage in the healthcare system. (American Academy of PAs). This gap has now been filled by PA’s. A physician assistant can do everything a physician can do, under the management of a doctor.

Becoming a Psychiatrist has interested me based on the premise of helping others. A psychiatrist is a physician who diagnoses and treats mental disorders in his/her patients. A common misconception is that a psychiatrist and a psychologist are the same thing. Unlike psychologists, psychiatrists attend medical school and obtain a M.D. This gives them the power to prescribe certain medications and even specialize into certain fields such as geriatric psychology, which is the specialization into the mind and behavior of aging adults, child and adolescent psychology, which is the specialization into the mind and behavior of children, and addiction psychology, which is the specialization into the mind of process or substance addicts.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree, medical school is next. Medical school is another four years, this is including the preclinical and clinical part. When medical school is completed, students will earn their doctor of medicine degrees. Then comes a residency program. A residency program is where graduates of medical school undergo three to seven years (the number of years, depending on the graduate’s specialty) of professional training under supervision of senior physician educators (American Medical Association, 1).

The rules for graduates of foreign medical schools are more complex and can be obtained from each state medical licensing board. Becoming a board certified physician in a specialty involves the completion of a residency in a given specialty, then completing a comprehensive exam (often a written and oral exam). When you have satisfied the requirements of that particular board you are now Board certified and are called a Diplomate of that board (e.g. Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine). There are 24 approved medical specialty boards in the U.S.

Even though Dr. Roy Basch moved from the BMS to study psychiatry at Mount Misery he was faced with a similar conflict: being taught conflicting methods of research. With each new rotation Roy was exposed to a different type of psychiatric research exposing him to a plethora of different ideas and theories. One of the most effective methods Roy was taught was introduced to him during his time under the care and teaching of Dr. Malik. Dr. Malik’s methods were effective because he was humble and connected with his patients as human beings, allowing them to recover because their terrifying sickness was “just apart of being human” (page 158). Malik displayed his humility in a number of ways.