Comments | med_school: Psychiatry

evil_winky in med_school

Psychiatry

Jun 23, 2011 22:30

I'm still considering medical school after recently graduating and getting my teaching license. I am strongly considering specializing in psychiatry. Does anyone have any experience in this field who could point me in the right directions as far as programs go? I'm really trying to decide if I can do the same this with a PhD in pysch but going to ( Read more... )

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evil_winky June 24 2011, 13:12:12 UTC

It seems to me that nurse practitioners have similar duties to P.As. I think the arrogant side of me just wants to call myself a doctor, but I hadn't considered being a nurse practitioner. I'd have to decide if that is really what I want-it seems to me that it could be easy to end up in a family practice being either a p.a or a nurse practitioner and I'm not sure that I really want to do that. You've given me something to think about, though that wouldn't cost nearly as much as med school ( ... )

plungerdna June 26 2011, 02:22:32 UTC

I might be a little biased because I went the M.D. route, but if these are your concerns I would seriously consider medical school. There are also a lot of programs with different focuses. For instance, my residency has a strong focus on theraputic approaches and neuroscience/anatomy. A friend's program has more of a research emphysis. There are also a lot of subspecialties in psychiatry--forensics, child, consult liaison (this is almost like a medicine consult and why I actually chose psych), geriatrics, addiction medicine, and even more areas that fellowships are not offered in--disaster relief, inpatient, emergency psychiatry, neuropsychiatry (might have a fellow?) and other areas I am sure I am forgetting. There's also training availible for someone who wants to do psychoanalysis. Takes a lot longer, but I have an instructor who only does this and teaches ( ... )

evil_winky June 26 2011, 03:59:16 UTC

No, I appreciate the rambling more than you believe ( ... )

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evil_winky June 26 2011, 04:08:06 UTC

Psychiatry probably should be separate from medical school. Its focus on the mind-body relationship is probably what puts it in that category, plus the whole pharmacology aspect. But psychiatry often deals with problems through which the cause is not so concrete as running a test or looking under a microscope. I'm sure psychiatrists that favor the biological paradigm would argue with me on that, but I'll wager to bet regardless ( ... )