What's a Psychologist?
A Psychologists focus to treat emotional and metal suffering patients.
What's a Psychiatrist?
A Psychiatrist is a trained medical doctor and they spend their time with patients on medication managements as a course of treatment.
What's the difference?
Well Psychologists and Psychiatrists often work in the treatment of patients.
A psychologist will not be able to write prescriptions, but it may be recommended a patient be seen by a psychiatrist.
Below is a video of the Difference Between a Psychologist and Psychiatrist
Jobs of a Psychologist
A few posts ago I posted a introduction about Psychology. In that post I have listed types of jobs to be a psychologist. In the first option was a psychiatrist and your year salary is about $354,500. Here is a link of my intro of psychology.
Types of a Psychiatrists
Adult psychiatrist: They work with adults experiencing mental illness.
Addiction psychiatrist: They work with people who have addiction and substance miscue problems
Geriatric psychiatrist: Works with elderly people.
Education
To be a psychiatrist your educational timeline should be like this:
- Bachelor's degree: Four Years
- Medical School: Four years
- Residency: Four years
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