2. What does she do? is a branch of medical care that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The upper age limit ranges from age 14 to 18, depending on the country A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician (also spelled paediatrician). A pediatrician is just a doctor for children. The children go to them when they are sick or annually check up
3. How many years So that adds up to about 11 years of school and training to become a Pediatrician. After graduating from high school, a student that wants to become a Pediatrician must finish: four years of college four years of medical school one year of a Pediatrics internship two years of a Pediatrics residency
4. reasons 10. When you are in med school, you will still get 2-4 weeks off at Christmas, 2 weeks of Spring Break and a nice long summer, while all of your college buddies that got 'real' jobs will be working. 9. Show me the money! OK. Pediatricians are not the best paid doctors, but their average salary of $135,000 a year will put you into the top 5th percentile of salaries in the United States. So while you likely won't become a millionaire in Pediatrics, you will make a nice living. 8. You get to work with kids, who more often than not, get better when they are sick. 7. Even if a lot of your patients are younger infants that cry a lot, since the average visit is just 10-15 minutes, you won't have to listen to them cry all day. 6. By the time you graduate from med school, finish your residency and start practicing as a Pediatrician, they will likely have the whole medical liability and health insurance mess all fixed... or at least it will be fixed before you retire. 5. Moms and Dads are easier to deal with as parents than as patients. 4. 81.5% of pediatricians are either "very satisfied" or "satisfied" with their professional hours, income, skills, and interest level, a level of job satisfaction that you likely won't find in many other careers. 3. Pediatrics is much more than just colds and ear infections and you will see and care for a wide variety of interesting and challenging illnesses, such as depression, asthma, anemia and whatever else you feel comfortable with. 2. You get to see your patients grow up... walking, their first day at school, playing sports, graduating, etc.
5. Tools I will need Pediatricians use special equipment and gadgets to examine patients. A stethoscope is used to listen to the patients heart and lungs. This tool can help point out irregular breathing and heart sounds which can lead to health problems. An otoscope is used to look into the patients ears. This device has a light attached so the pediatrician can see the eardrum. Pediatricians use a flat wood stick called a tongue depressor to observe a patient's mouth and throat. This keeps the tongue down so the tonsils are visible. A blood pressure cuff is put around a patients arm and used to check blood pressure. There is an air pump attached to the cuff that inflates it, squeezing the patients arm. This stops the blood from flowing through the artery. Then the pediatrician lets air escape and listens to the immediate blood flow.
