To become a pediatrician you need to go to school for about fifteen to eighteen years. First you well have to take common course, this will set the basics of medicine and will take about four years. Next you will have to get a Medical Degree which will prepare you will for your pediatric residency and will take around another four years. Next, you will need to enter a Pediatric Residency this is hands on training with someone watching over you this can take anywhere from seven to …show more content…
You will need to find a school that offers you the ability to receive a common course, medical degree, pediatric residency, a medical license, and lastly help to provide you a medical license examination. You will also not able to take classes online. The three schools that seemed to fit the nest where Harvard Medical School, UCSF School of Medicine, and UW Wisconsin. The best school for my lifestyle is UW Wisconsin School of Medicine. This is because UW Wisconsin offers the cheapest of the three schools with the in-state tuition cost of 33,482 dollars with Room and Bored compared to 65,581 dollars for Harvard Medical School and 54,610 for UCSF. UW Wisconsin also offers loans with ninety-two percent receiving loans compared to eighty-two percent and seventy-six percent. UW Wisconsin has the lowest out of almost all schools for indebtedness; with only about 136,000 dollars for four years of medical school. With it being one of the cheapest in the long run it makes me very confident that once I get a job it will be worth it in the long run. The median pay of my job yearly is about 116,600 dollars so if I took five perecent every year I could have my first four years of college paid of in six years. The amount of debt I will be in is very important to me, I want it to be low so that my job is worth the work put into it. Also with UW Wisconsin has the best acceptance rate by 3.5% compared to 2.2 and 2.3 %. UW Wisconsin is also the closest to my home with only being about two hours away, and I believe that it is important to be close to where I grew up. The student population in all the school is very high, though I think I will do better with a little bit of a smaller school. UW Wisconsin also has a very good sports team and extra curricular