Education & Training
To become a medical doctor requires at least 11 years of education beyond high school.
Medical School

Contributions to Society
  • Treat patients
  • Teach in a medical school
  • Research new cures
    • Rewards
  • High salary
  • Respect and regard
  • Satisfaction of helping others
  • Why doctors make so much money?
  • Deceptive income of physicians
    • Challenges
  • Long work hours
  • Stressful
  • Expensive education
    • Skills & Abilities
  • Strong interest in sciences -- biology, chemistry, and physics
  • Work with people
  • Good communication skills
    • Prospects
  • People are living longer, so there is an increasing need for medical doctors
  • Advances in AI based software applications and robotic surgery may reduce the need for some types of medical doctors

    • MCAT

    USMLE 

    Step 1

    USMLE 

    Step 2 

    CK & CS

    USMLE 

    Step 3

    Path to Becoming a Medical Doctor in the US
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