[beautylicious87]

are any of you majoring in DERMATOLOGY??

can you tell me how it is??
is it tough or what??

please give me tips and suggestions and whatever help you can provide!!

MUCH THANX

[uandme4ever21]

are any of you majoring in DERMATOLOGY??

can you tell me how it is??
is it tough or what??

please give me tips and suggestions and whatever help you can provide!!

MUCH THANX

You can't major in that.

[B0hemian_Sprite]

Haha, yeah, I was going to say. How do you major in dermatology? I believe you have to go to Med school, and then during your internship you'll focus in dermatology.

Unless your goal is to be an aesthetician...and I have no idea how you go that route. Sorry

[beautylicious87]

Haha, yeah, I was going to say. How do you major in dermatology? I believe you have to go to Med school, and then during your internship you'll focus in dermatology.

Unless your goal is to be an aesthetician...and I have no idea how you go that route. Sorry

wait!!
you can't major in dermatology??
oooo
i didn't know that!!
wow!!
ok thanx for the help anywhoo....

[uandme4ever21]

Haha, yeah, I was going to say. How do you major in dermatology? I believe you have to go to Med school, and then during your internship you'll focus in dermatology.

Unless your goal is to be an aesthetician...and I have no idea how you go that route. Sorry

You apply to med school and get in (Getting in is very difficult!). During med school, they allow you to rotate through the various clinics and types of medical field. You then decide on what you like and apply for that type of residency. The problem is, the residency also have choices in what type of students they pick. The type of residency is dependent on your USLME step 1 board scores, your letter of recs, interviews, and the med school you go to. Step 1 board scores probably having the most weight. Unfortunately, dermatology is one of the highly sought residencies around due to the ease of lifestyle and high pay and lower than the average liability. Therefore they have way more qualified med students applying than they have spots. So if you are a crappy ass med student or a did horribly on ur board score, good luck! You would waste another year sitting at home doing nothing and applying to residencies again.

It is like dating, you can want somebody all you want, but that somebody has to want you back. You can want dermatology all you want, dermatology residencies have to want you back.

Getting into med school is very difficult. Getting into dermatology is even more difficult. It has a good lifestyle though for the high pay. But then again a lot of other jobs offer than too.

[daisy]

What are board scores???????????

[beautylicious87]

What are board scores???????????

yeah what are board scores??

[uandme4ever21]

yeah what are board scores??

After two years of med school, you take a national exam that will determine if you are allowed to continue on. Basically, like an exit exam for high school or SAT, but much more difficult and long. I think it is 5 hours long for the first one, not sure. It is computer base. It is cumulative, it pretty much covers various topics like pharmacology, pathology, anatomny, biochemistry, and etc. Basically the stuff you learn the first 2 years of med school. Think of it as a big fat super giant final (the king of finals, it covers the topics you learn your first 2 years of med school). Once you pass, you can't take it again to improve your chances of getting into a better residency. And if you fail it once, you have retake it to continue on with med school, but pretty much you can look at working as a primary care physicians (IM, family doc), non of the top speciality would really want you. As you progress through medical school and into residency and fellowships, you have to take more board scores, I think a total of at least 3 board scores, step 1, step 2, step 3, and so forth.

Board scores is basically a government sponsor test. The government has to make sure you are qualified enough to continue on as a doctor. It needs to protect the people against an incompetent doctor. Therefore it license all of the healthcare providers and various other jobs, such as CPA and lawyers. The step 1 boards is the first license examination to determine that you learn enough to continue on. It is required by law that you take it to continue on.

MD/DO = educational degree the school gives you that tells people you are good enough to become a doctor
STEP 1, 2, 3 boards = government licensure that tells the people you meet some minium level of competency, therefore trying to protect the people against you. It is the legal right to work as a doctor in this country.


SO YES, YOU CAN'T JUST PICK DERMATOLOGY BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. If everyone could, it wouldn't pay so much.

[wish4or]

hey that's what i wanted to doo
you cant major in it. from what i know you have to go to med school become a family physican and from there go back to med school and specialize in deramtology

[localpinoy]

yea like others said...go to med school to get that MD. then, you can start specializing which means more school after med school. its like other specializations such as surgery, urology, etc.

hope that helps