This details the pathway to becoming a doctor

1. Becoming a
Doctor: What
do you need
to know

2. Structure
▪ A Bit About Me..
▪ The Road to becoming a Doctor
▪ SEVEN STEPS TO GETTING IN TO MED SCHOOL & Beyond
▪ Things I wish I had known
▪ Things I learned along the way

3. ▪ High School –
▪ -Tennis Team, Chess Team, Honor Society President, Class
Treasurer, Hospital Volunteer, etc… Career Goal: DOCTOR
▪ College -Stony Brook University, Pharmacology & Chemistry
- Pre-Med Honor Society President, SGA Committees,
University Student Ambassador, EMS Volunteer, Research
Galore Career Goal: DOCTOR
▪ Medical School – (EVOLUTION) -No
Clubs, No Volunteering, no time for anything but studying
- First year interests: Surgery, Orthopedics vs..
-Third Year interests: OB/GYN, Internal Medicine, Neurology
- Fourth Year interests: Internal Medicine, Neurology

4. ▪ Residency –Stony Brook University Medical Center –
Neurology/Internal Medicine (5 Years)
▪ Fellowship – Stony Brook University Medical Center Neurophysiology/ Sleep
Medicine (1+ Year)
▪ Additional Training in Headache Medicine/ Brain Injury Medicine at Yale, Boston
University, Tufts
 Academic Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University: Taught Undergraduate
Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows. Saw Patients at 3
Locations. (8 years)
▪ THE BOARDS: This is the ultimate test(s) of professional certification in an area
(can be oral/written/both) :
Board Certified in Neurology, Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Headache
Medicine, Brain Injury Medicine, and Neurophysiology

5. How to Become a Doctor: 7-Step Career Path
Overview
▪ Becoming a doctor is a pretty complex, multi-step process.
▪ Here are the seven major steps:
 Step 1: Do well in high school
 Step 2: Get into a great college
 Step 3: Take the MCAT (and get a good score)
 Step 4: Apply and get into medical school
 Step 5: Attend medical school and pass your boards to become a licensed doctor
 Step 6: Choose your specialty and APPLY TO andcomplete your residency, Possibly Fellowship
 Step 7: Take and pass your final boards to practice independently ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~private
practice vs. employment vs. _________
Good Source:
 https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-to-become-a-doctor

6. Things I wish I had known
1. Be prepared to give up your life, because the time
commitment is even more than you think.
2. You might not know exactly what kind of doctor you want to
be until the end of med school.
3. When you choose a specialty, you're pretty much choosing it
for life. (except in very very very rare cases)
4. You should probably be type-A. (It is not an absolute, but it can
really help.)
5. You’re NOT going to be the smartest person in the room
anymore.
6. You’re NEVER going to know everything.

7. Things I wish I had known
7. You need to be really good at working with other people.
8. You're going to learn just as much from your peers as you will
senior physicians.
9. Being a doctor is a ton of paperwork.
10. It's always going to be difficult when a patient dies.
11. You're going to oversee other residents after just a year.
12. Be prepared to move potentially a lot.
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8. Things I learned along the way
TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
- Doctors are bad patients
- Self sacrifice is the way we are taught
- Make time for sleep and yourself