Dermatologist

Duties and responsibilities:

A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in skin, hair, nails, and mucous membranes (ex. Lining inside the mouth, nose, and eyelids. They diagnose and treat 3,000 different diseases which include skin cancer, eczema, acne, psoriasis, and nail infections. Dermatologist also improve their patients appearance like wrinkles, age spots, acne scars, and look more like the patients self after surgery when a skin cancer is removed.

Salary: $100,000-$500,000 a year

Education:

·       Bachelor’s degree

·       Medical school, becoming a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine

·       Internship, 1 year

·       Dermatology residency program, at least 3 years

I really would love to be a dermatologist because I want to know why people get rashes, acne, wrinkles etc. I simply just want to learn how it is caused, how can you prevent it, how to treat it, and what triggers it.