Becoming a m.d.?
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Becoming an MD is a long process that requires commitment and dedicationn. After 4 years of medical school, you will need residency training to be certified in a particular field. But to answer your question, depending on your specialty, you will generally "round" on your patients daily in the hospital which means evaluating them, examining them, and ordering treatments and studies for the day. After that, if you are a general clinician - neurologist, pediatrician, internist,etc. you will see patients in the office: new patients, existing patients, etc. After a full day at the office, generally 8am to 5pm, you will need to follow-up on your patients in the hospital - checking on the results of tests and studies, seeing if someone's abdominal pain improved or worsened, etc.
If you decide to have a career such as a surgeon or anethesiologist, you will spend the bulk of your day in the operating room conducting surgery or providing anesthesia from 7:30 am until all the surgeries are done for the day. I would say your day generally will start between 6 and 7am and end between 6 and 7pm. Between 6 and 8am, you will visit your hospitalized patients, between 8 and 5pm - you will be in the office or procedure room. After 5pm, you will be returning calls from patients with questions, talking to other doctors about your patients, talking to family members about their loved ones, etc. In addition, you have to fit time to complete your office notes and other paperwork after 5pm or so.
Just thinking of the doctor who did an operation on me, he got up about 5:30 a.m., to get to the hospital at 7:00. He read the charts for the operations he was going to do, and talked to his operating room team until about 8:00. Then, he went around to say hello to the patients he was operating on, that day. He did three operations, for 2 1/2 hours each, with lunch and visiting the people he'd operated on previously, in the middle. Then, he dictated his notes & went home about 7:00 p.m.
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