Brenda Said:

Types of careers in the medical field?

We Answered:

It really depends on your grades an how long you'd like to be in school. You can be a Home Health Aide without a 4 year degree, or get a 4 year degree and be a Nurse, or go to grad school for 2 years after you complete your 4 year degree and be a Physician's Assistant, or go to Medical School and Residency for 7 years after your 4 year degree to be an MD. With every level of education, the pay, autonomy, and responsibility increase - MDs make more money than nurses, but they work longer hours and are far more likely to be sued.
Nurses and Physicians Assistants can work in any type of medical office, in any specialty. Doctors must take an additional fellowship to specialize beyond the most general practice in their chosen field - for example, an Internist would have to have a fellowship to become a gastrointerologist, and a surgeon would have to have an additional fellowship to specialize in heart surgery. If you think about it, there is probably a medical specialty for every part or system in your body, and probably a surgical specialty as well.
In any case, medical careers are highly competitive, from nursing through MD, so you'll have to have excellent grades and be very good at taking standardized tests to get into a good school.