Essay On Becoming A Gynecologist

Frequently people get confused that an Obstetrician and a Gynecologist are the same specialty because they deal with essentially the same parts of the female system. The abbreviation OB/GYN means Obstetrics and Gynecology. According to WebMD, an obstetrician is a doctor that specializes in pregnancy, childbirth, and a woman’s reproductive system. Gynecologist is a surgeon who specializes in diseases of the female genital tract and women’s health (MacGill). Becoming an OB/GYN requires a college degree, it requires an understanding of what we will be doing, it requires knowing how much the earnings are, it requires knowing the specific working environments that we will be working in. First, we have to know the college requirements to become an OB/GYN. The requirements for school are that we have a completion of an undergraduate bachelor degree, completion of the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), completion of four years of medical school, and completion of residency training. Medical school is split up into two sections: two years of regular lecture classes. After that two years of different clinical rotations. Medical school is extremely competitive so they like for our applications to be …show more content…
The cool thing about being an OB/GYN is that we work anywhere. We can work in large hospitals, we can work in outpatient clinics, and academic medical centers. With being able to pretty much work anywhere it also depends on your specialty. For example; if we decide to mainly deal with labor and delivery we will be undoubtedly be doing many over night calls and uncontrollable hours. Another example could be that; if we choose to focus on the gynecologic oncology side of things we will be spending more time doing surgeries in the OR and our hours will be more predictable. Also, if we choose to open a practice with other doctors we can share the responsibilities of splitting the hours equally