What are three negative aspects of a pediatrician?

Cons of becoming a pediatrician

• Watching children suffer: While empathetic doctors will have a hard time seeing any kind of patient suffering, seeing kids in pain or dying can take an even greater emotional toll.
• Communication: Kids can’t always express their needs or feelings.

Is it hard being a pediatrician?

It is a long and difficult year! You will be almost continually sleep-deprived.” Internship is followed by another round of National Medical Board examinations. By the time you finish undergraduate school, medical school, and residency training, I suspect that pediatrics will go through even greater changes.

What challenges do pediatricians face?

3 challenges pediatricians face

• Managing the family unit. Parents whose children are sick enough to be hospitalized are often stressed out, sleep deprived and understandably emotional.
• Solving medical mysteries. Being a pediatrician is rewarding and challenging work.
• Dealing with emotional trauma.

What type of personality does a pediatrician have?

Pediatricians should be observant, intelligent, persistent, level-headed, open-minded and resourceful when diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses. An observant pediatrician can notice subtle changes in a patient’s condition and act accordingly.

Do pediatricians get days off?

Pediatricians do better than most Americans in amount of vacation time. Approximately 15\% take more than 4 weeks of vacation annually, and 55\% take 2-4 weeks, which puts them in the top 6 for amount of time taken off by specialists who responded to our survey.

How long does a pediatrician go to school?

Pediatricians must attend at least nine years of schooling. That includes four years of undergraduate school and four years of medical school (or six years at a combined university), plus three years of a pediatric residency. Some pediatricians spend another two to six years training in a subspecialty.

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