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Medical Careers : How to Become a Psychiatrist
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Description: To become a psychiatrist, a bachelor’s degree in a science discipline and a passing MCAT score is required, followed by four years of medical school, a four-year residency and passing the board exam. Consider becoming a psychiatrist withtips from a practice administrator in this free video on career information. Expert: Mark MacBayne Bio: Mark MacBayne, with a Master of Public Health degree, is a practice manager at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Filmmaker: Bing Hu…
25 Comments
November 4th, 2009 at 9:59 am
would you say the same about physicians you idiot because the prescribe drugs too infact thats their main duty
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Just so everyone knows, this guy is completely wrong.
1) A 3.5 GPA is what most med schools consider to be competitive.
2) He also didn’t mention any undergrad counseling courses that you may want to consider taking.
3) The med school prerequisites are 1 (not 2) year of biology, 1 year of general chemistry, 1 year of organic chemistry, calculus 1 and 2 (or calc 1 and a generally strong foundation in math, such as a minor in it), and physics 1 and 2. Don’t listen to this tool.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:19 am
how to b a phychiatrist : patronize and talk down to ur clients, buy a suit and a clipboard and remember to never under any circumstances help the patient
November 4th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
King, I agree. I am also studying to be a psychiatrist for identical reasons. We will be “the black sheep” of what they are known for. Glad to know there are people out there on the same page.
November 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
its all in the doctor and how he/she treats their patients.
I do agree that most of them are pill pushers. I was forced to see many many when i was a child and i was perscribed many meds that did nothing but harm to my system.
I personally hate these doctors…….well at least i did.
Now I am thinking about becoming one myself and treating people the way they should be, not just med up and tossed about
November 4th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I’m studying to be a Psychiatrist… And the reason I chose to do this is because I am fascinated with the way the mind functions. Secondly, because I look around and I see so many people being diagnosed with mental disorders… I don’t understand why this has become an epidemic. I want to contribute in the reducing these numbers. I have hope that it is just corruption within the field, and people really aren’t sick. I want to help those who really need it. So.. please don’t crucify all of us.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Man, psych’s get such a bad rap. When I was in residency (neurology), I thought psych residents were very “off.” Looking back during med school, I could never, ever tell if psychiatrists were “off” because of being psychiatrists, or they were “off” to start with and gravitated toward psychiatry (or psychology). Thoughts!?!
November 4th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I don’t like psychiatrists. I think they are “pill-pushers”.
Psychiatrists do not intend to cause deliberate harm to their patients but many of them do indirect damage nonetheless.
Psychology is like taking a broken arm, bandaging it up, and letting it heal over a period of time….
Psychiatry is similar to someone merely glancing at the arm and prescribing Hydrocodone.
Most perceive Psychiatry as nothing but a “quick fix”.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Smart punk in a suit.
Sits and collects money per hour!
The sicker you are, the more he collects!
When you start “visiting” Mr. Shrink, he will convince you to go more often… You will have to go as often as he wants and pay him as much as he wants.
All these shrinks are interested in is money.
Patients have to be sick forever and go to them for as many years as they resits in order to fill them up with cash.
The interest of a shrink is to lengthen the period of treatment and make much cash!
November 4th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
3.7 wth lol okay well right now I have a 3.45 and I thought that was okay
I go to
emory now so I’ll prob. end up staying here for medical school… if they retake me lol
November 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
people you can make hella bank with this job and not all psyciatrists are bad.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
OMG !!!! LMAO i didnt knw so manny ppl didn’t lyk Psychiatrist……..
November 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
psychiatry is a bad dickhead form of medicine.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Hey,pharmucitical companies pay these psychiatrist to use their samples,that’s why psychiatrist drug you up.Also,the drug fuck pharmas,also wine and dine in fine luxury these dumbfucks psychiatrist.They do,I hate these damn docs,well,the last one I went to was real good,he cared a lot and wasn’t in it for the money.I hate the False Memory Syndrome Movement bullshit.Kill them all of the FMS organization.
November 4th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Go to hell you dumb son of a bitch quack ass money making dickhead!!!!!
November 4th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
“hi,heres how to become a psychiatrist,get degree,get patients,drug them up to make them happy so I can collect your $200 an hour,if you can’t pay or have insurance,we don’t want you here nor do we give a rats ass.Also,to be a psychiatrist,get invovled in the False Memory Syndrom movement so when a patient comes in,tells u they remember abuse,you can tell them it didn’t happen,is one of our 3 common diagn,schizo,effective or bipolar,you’re crazy,making up memories.”
Fuck u psyche doc quacks!
November 4th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Why does everyone hate psychiatrists? Not everyone of them is trying to kill you.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
So much hatred towards psychiatry in general. I once visited a psychiatrist, and she accidentally overdosed me on lithium. Yet, she still had a medical doctors degree. Quite baffling, even if I’m interested in the subject, though it garners too much hate for me to consider it.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
A psychiatrist is usually an MD who is too lazy, incompetent or stupid to practice real medicine.
Be honest.
Psychiatry is a pseudo science that specializes in pushing dangerous cytotoxic drugs on vulnerable human beings to make easy money.
Google Dr. Peter Breggin.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Psychiatry killllllllsssss!!!!!!!!!!people do not become a murderer!!!!!
please don’t be blind…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Psychiatry offers much insight into the blind gullibility of many. Psychiatry is little more than a business; that is, a way to make an easy profit.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
why then after all of that do the shrinks just ignore the patinets forget evrything thev learned nd just right up tv drugs?
45 patients in 45min close at 3 open at 1130
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
rhinoceros9, I think I could say that it is the majority of the people in the US and abroad who are the actual bipolars because they made stupid financial decisions that destroyed the world economy, and someone like me, knew better the whole time. I even told the banks back in 2007 that it was unethical to offer Adjustable Rate Mortgages and they tried to talk me into one. So I am definitely in the minority, and I am proud of my individuality.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Furthermore, I am NOT depressed.
I am full of life, with goals to accomplish and a full time job on top of that. You on the other hand haven’t even seem to have succeeded yet if you are still searching for a career. I already have my career plus several others and many hobbies on top of all that.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
If you had even read the drug side effects you would “KNOW” that it is a fact that I have stated the side effects and it is not an OPINION. And you don’t know how to label anyone. If I wanted to be as obnoxious as the shrinks I would call you a Nazi with a vulgar speech disorder–or should I just say you are a part of Nami–Nazis Alliance for Mainstream Indoctronation, Nazis against molested Inidviduals, and Nazis Against MINORITY INDIVIDUALs, and no, I was never labeled bipolar FYI.