If you always wanted to help people, you like children, and you thought about becoming a doctor, this article is for you. Paediatric is such an amazing career choice. In this article, you will have the chance to learn a little bit more about this job.
A pediatrician is a specialized doctor who works with children, adolescents and young adults to evaluate the impact of diseases and dysfunctions on their development. He's helping kids with all types of illness such as mental health, physical health, developmental health and psychosocial health.
In brief, pediatricians have to examine, establish diagnostic and treat young patients. Also, they need to establish a truthful and respectful, compassionate relation with the children's family.
For a pediatrician, every day is different because all children are different, and it's all different cases. As a specialist for children, you might prescribe, administer treatment, or do other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness. But on a daily basis, you'll examine children to assess their growth and development. You'll have to explain procedures and discuss test results and prescribed treatments with patients and their parents.
As a pediatrician, you work in hospitals most of the time. You can work in a private clinic too, or you can do home treatments for certain patients.
In Quebec, to become a pediatrician, you'll need to complete your college years and pre medecine studies. In general, though, you have to do a bachelor of science degree, then you need to graduate from medical school too and have specific training in pediatrics. It's around 11 study years.
In Canada, pediatricians make about $241,431 a year.
You will need to do your pediatric residency, 3 years add after your done with the general medicine program.
Being a pediatrician means you have to interact with people. As a consequence, you may risk having psychological problems due to seeing grieving parents, sick kids dying, or big traumas, especially if you are projecting your personal situation into theirs. Therefore, it's weird to say, but to be a pediatrician, you have to be not too sensitive to survive these difficult events. You need to create a certain wall to protect yourself. However, the reality is that the biggest danger, as a pediatrician, is to lose a young patient despite you've done everything you could.
There not really any chances that pediatricians can be replaced by robots soon because every single child is different and every case is different. Children need to have a human contact too when they're not feeling well. They need someone to reassure them, not to be stressful.
In Canada, pediatricians retire around the age of 62 years old for men and 60 years old for women. However, these numbers are an average, some doctors may retire belated.
Becoming a pediatrician is a vocation, but also my biggest dream. I always wanted to help people in my life and I really have a good time when I'm with children. I enjoy the complexity and fragility of children, so I think pediatric it's the perfect medecine domain for me. I still have a lot of years of study in front of me. Almost 10 years. But I know it's 100% worth it!
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