Medical Malpractice

Just like any other medical profession, you have to first complete a 4 year undergraduate course before you are allowed to take the MCAT or the Medical College Admissions Test. The course you decide to take should be in the sciences because as a doctor, you will be dealing with the human body and be familiar with the various chemicals used in the various medicines.

If you do well here, you can enter the medical school of your choice where you have to endure another 4 years to obtain your medical degree.

Since internal medicine is a specialize field, you also have to complete several years of graduate medical education which includes a year of internship and 3 years of residency training.

The only risk when you are starting out in your internal medicine career is to be accused of malpractice which can only happen if you become negligent. So take every hour you spend working as an intern to learn everything there is to know about internal medicine.

By keeping notes, you will easily find the solution when you are once again faced with the same problem.
If you are able to do that, the last thing you have to do is pass the state licensing exam which enables you to do your practice.

Doctors can earn more than $300,000 a year and in order for you to be on top of your game, you need to keep yourself updated with any new developments and the best way to do that will be to attend seminars and other courses whenever these are offered.

After years of working for a hospital, you can choose to continue working for them or start your own practice. If you decide to stay, you can specialize by first going back to school and then becoming a cardiologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, immunologist, nephrologists, oncologist or rheumatologist.

While you can also do that after going back to school, it won't be a bad to also do this early so you can have your own clinic, do your own hours and get most of the profit. If capital is a problem, try opening a clinic with other doctors in the same or different specialty.

Data from the AMA or American Medical Association reveals that there is shortage of doctors in internal medicine as many have either retired or moved on to other more prestigious specialties. This means that there are job vacancies in the different healthcare facilities all across the country and all you have to do is make the grade and apply for it.

So now you have an idea of how to start an internal medicine career, ask yourself if this is what you really want to do with your life and then do what you need to achieve it.