Neonatologist

Duties and Responsibilities: Neonatologists are pediatricians who have received additional specialized training in the care of infants. After completing the three year residency required for all pediatricians, neonatologist go on to three more years in a neonatal fellowship, learning to care for distressed infants under the supervision of an experienced practitioner. As critical-care providers for these youngest patients, neonatologists bear a range of responsibilities for their diagnosis and treatment, as well as providing support for the parents and other physicians

Salary: $236,503

Education:  

College degree- 4 years

Medical school- 4 years

Pediatric internship and residency- 3 years

Neonatology fellowship- 3 years

Reflection: do you think you would like to be one? why or why not?

I would not like to be one and my reason for this is because I’m not a baby person I mean I do enjoy them yeah they are cute and fragile but if I ever had to see anything bad happened to them I would freak out and not in the best way that I can cope with so for me its best to stay away as they rest and heal so I won’t get in the way of others