Imagine being able to know what makes people tick! Imagine being able to understand why people act the way they do. Imagine being in University thirteen years MORE after High School.
             Definition of a psychiatry - The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders.
             Definition of a psychiatrist - A physician who specializes in psychiatry.
             Becoming a psychiatrist is no easy task that's for sure, but once completed it gives great satisfaction.
             Required Schooling - Well it is important to do well in school regardless of final destination. But to go to Medical School you need to keep your marks at minimum north of 70% in the courses that are required and useful in Medical school suck as *Biology*, Physics, **Chemistry**, Math. And you need to take them all at the advanced grade level. In Canada to get into Medical school you need to have at least half a Batchelor's degree before applying and for McMaster Medical School you need a Full Batchelor's degree. The degree can be in any subject but a science degree would increase your chances. It takes four years to get a Batchelor's Degree in Science. If you are accepted into Medical school you then you go through 4 years of Lectures, Tutorials, and in hospital work, towards the end it is more clinical work. Through all this you would be writing tests on a regular basis. In the end, if you're still standing you have to right the National Medical Exam or the L.M.C.C. Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada
             Which is a gruelling test spanning 2 days for 6-8 hours a day. If you pass you are now able to specialize in a medical field; you are also a Doctor. You would have already chosen your specialty, and then you would enter Residency.
             Residency- A residency is when you are working and being paid to work as a doctor. You are working towards becoming a psychiatrist. This residency will take five yea...