Question: What are the Different Medical Specialties that I can Practice?
Answer: After medical school, students receive training in a specific medical specialty. Medical specialties and subspecialties vary in the length of their training. Students begin rotating through medicinal specialties during their third year. More responsibility—and electives—are added in clinical rotations during the fourth year. Here is a brief summary of medical specialties:
- Anesthesiology - 4 years
- Dermatology - 4 years
- Emergency Medicine - 3-4 years
- General Surgery Option 1 - 5 years
- Subspecialties - additional 1-4 years
- General Surgery Option 2 – 1-2 years
- Specialty - additional 3-5 years
- Internal Medicine - 3 years
- Subspecialties - additional 2-3 years
- Neurology - 4 years
- Obstetrics and Gynecology - 4 years
- Pathology - 4 years
- Pediatrics - 3 years
- Subspecialties - additional 2-3 years
- Psychiatry - 4 years
- Radiology - 4-5 years
- Subspecialties - additional 1-2 years
