Training in professions

[Ballguy]

AF basic training: Six and a half weeks
USMC Basic Training: Thirteen Weeks
US Army basic Training: Nine Weeks


The following list does not include college


Dermatology - 4 years

Dermatopathology - 1-2 years
Emergency Medicine - 3-4 years

Pediatric Emergency Medicine - 2 years
Sports Medicine - 1-2 years
Toxicology - 2 years
Family Practice - 3 years

Geriatrics - 2 years
Neurology - 4 years

Electromyography (EMG) - 1-2 years
Neuromuscular Diseases - 1-2 years
Electroencephalography (EEG) - 1-2 years
Epilepsy - 1-2 years
Behavioral Neurology/Dementia - 1-2 years
Cerebrovascular Diseases/Stroke - 1-2 years
Movement Disorders - 1-2 years
Neuroimmunology - 1-2 years
Neuro-Oncology - 1-2 years
Pain - 1-2 years
Headache - 1-2 years
Neuro-Ophthalmology - 1 year
Critical Care Neurology - 1 year
Neuroimaging - 1 year
Sleep - 1 year
Ophthalmology - 4 years

Neuro-ophthalmology - 2 years
Retina - 2 years
Glaucoma - 2 years
Oculoplastics - 1 year
Plastic Surgery - 5-6 years

Hand Surgery - 2 years
Internal Medicine - 3 years

Allergy & Immunology - 2 years
Cardiology - 3 years
Critical Care - 2-3 years
Endocrinology - 2 years
Gastroenterology - 3 years
Geriatrics -2 years
Hematology and Oncology - 2-3 years
Infectious Diseases - 2 years
Nephrology - 2 years
Pulmonology - 2-3 years
Rheumatology - 2 years
Obstetrics/Gynecology - 4 years

Infertility
General Surgery - 5-6 years

Critical Care - 2 years
Pediatric Surgery - 2 years
Thoracic Surgery - 2-3 years
Transplant Surgery - 2-3 years
Trauma - 2 years
Vascular Surgery - 2 years
Colon and Rectal Surgery - 2 years
Urology - 5 years

Pediatric Urology - 1-2 years
Psychiatry - 4 years

Child Psychiatry - 3 years
Forensic Psychiatry - 2-3 years
Neurosurgery - 6 years

Pediatric Neurosurgery - 1-2 years
Physical Medicine - 3 years

Pediatric Physical Medicine - 2 years
Radiology - 4 years

CT - 1 year
MRI - 1-2 years
Ultrasound - 1 year
Interventional - 1-2 years
Neuroradiology - 1-2 years
Breast - 1 year
Chest - 1 year
Musculoskeletal - 1 year
Pediatric - 1-2 years
Nuclear Medicine - 1-2 years
Orthopedic Surgery - 5 years

Hand - 2 years
Spine - 2 years
Hip - 2 years
Foot and Ankle - 2 years
Anesthesiology - 4 years

Critical Care - 2 years
Pediatric Anesthesiology - 2 years
Pathology - 5 years

Forensics Pathology - 2 years
Aerospace Medicine - 2 years
Pediatrics - 3 years

Allergy and Immunology - 2 years
Behavioral and Developmental - 2 years
Cardiology - 2 years
Critical Care - 2 years
Endocrinology - 2 years
Gastroenterology - 2 years
Genetics - 2 years
Hematology and Oncology - 2 years
Infectious Diseases - 2 years
Neonatology - 2 years
Nephrology - 2 years
Pulmonology - 2 years
Rheumatology - 2 years

Federal Agents: 12 weeks of basic training, the major agencies have specialized training

Paramedics (highest level of EMT): 2 years.


There is no real reason for this thread, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

[Shek]

The military training time is grossly underestimated. For officers, the time spent in pre-commissioning programs, officer basic training, advanced courses, specialized courses, staff colleges, and war colleges aren't included. For enlisted troops, time spent in advanced individual training, specialized course, and developmental leadership courses aren't included.

For example, I spent 4 years in my pre-commissioning training, 1 year in my officer basic training and specialized tactics courses, nearly a year in my advanced course, and have spent a year and a half in graduate training specifically for future military jobs. Of my first 14 years on active duty military service, I will have spent 7 years training for my profession.

[Bluesman]

One of the things that landed me my post-military job was being able to lay an inch-high stack of Air Force training certificates down in front of my interviewer. I spent over a year learning Vietnamese (immersion-style: eight hours a day in class, studying every evening), and then another four months in crypto skool. Survival skool, upgrade training, RIVET JOINT instruction, adjunct faculty training for the National Cryptologic Skool, and about a cool hundred classified programs across all of the 'INTs.

shek has the bubble: training is constant and intense in the military. Colleges and trades WISH they could make you work that hard.

[lemontree]

The military training time is grossly underestimated. For officers, the time spent in pre-commissioning programs, officer basic training, advanced courses, specialized courses, staff colleges, and war colleges aren't included. For enlisted troops, time spent in advanced individual training, specialized course, and developmental leadership courses aren't included.

For example, I spent 4 years in my pre-commissioning training, 1 year in my officer basic training and specialized tactics courses, nearly a year in my advanced course, and have spent a year and a half in graduate training specifically for future military jobs. Of my first 14 years on active duty military service, I will have spent 7 years training for my profession.

Very true and you have not even added the specialist weapons courses that officers do!...it goes on an on. The amount one has to study in the army, is sufficient to make a person a rocket scientist if he/she does the same amount in a college or university.