Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist 

Duties and responsibilities: 

Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness. As physicians, they are licensed to use a wide variety of treatments and may write perceptions. Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities. Their duties include:  

*Designing treatment programs. 

*Conducting psychotherapy sessions. 

*Prescribing potent mental illness drugs. 

*Supervising electrotherapy treatments. 

*Conducting research. 

*Leading a team of mental health care providers.    

Average Salary:$90,000-$200,000 

Educational Requirements: 

Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. degrees  

In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrics must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.      

    

Reflection: Do you think you would want to be one? Why? Why not? 

I don’t think that I would want to be a psychiatrist because it is too much work and what if you mess up on a patient and prescribe him something wrong. And well personally from what l know it would be the same thing as being a therapist which is listening to peoples crap and I don’t want to do that.