Upcoming early Summertime is known to be medical school application season. Known to many, the journey to becoming a board-certified physician in the United States is the most rigorous educational and training process in the nation: four years of undergraduate college studies to fulfill pre-medicine science and math classes (along with the accumulation of clinical hours, volunteering, and shadowing), the one-year expanse of applications (taking the MCAT, primary and secondary applications, interviews, etc.), four years of medical school (two years of grueling didactics followed by two years of clerkship/varying medical specialty rotations) with three board exams (Step 1-3), 3-7 years of residency training (specialty-dependent, with a minimum of 10,000 training hours), and 2-3 years of chosen subspecialty/fellowship if desired.

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