How long would I have to go to college to become a Diagnostician(doctor specializing in infectious diseases)?

I am about to start high school and I would like to know how long I would have to go to college to become a Diagnosician.It is a doctor who specilizes in infenctous disease and nephrology.Nephrology is the branch of internal medicine dealing with the studies of the functions and disease of the kidney.

There's no such thing, in America anyway. You can be an ID (infectious disease specialist), and they have 9-10 years of training past their undergraduate degree.
http://www.idsociety.org/Template.cfm?Se...
Nephrology is a different specialty. Here's info on Duke University's program:
http://medicine.duke.edu/modules/fellows...

Good luck with your studies!

First of all, the two types of doctor you are talking about are quite different.

An Infectious Disease physician specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of people with infectious diseases.

A Nephrologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of people with kidney disease.

Typically, physicians become one or the other. It would be very rare for someone to go through training for both.

Here is the time it will take:

1. 4 years of high school (18 years old)
2. 4 years of college (22 years old)
3. 4 years of medical school (26 years old)
4. 3 years of residency in Internal Medicine (29 years old)
5. 3 years of fellowship in either Infectious Disease or Nephrology (32 years old)

Then you can start practicing medicine on your own. You are a doctor after step 3, but still need further training. Good luck!

could be 8-10 yrs

That's amazing that you want to specialize in the exact same branches that Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie) specializes in. As wonderful as the show, House M.D., is (don't get me wrong, I love it), a TV show is not a great way to choose a profession.

If you want to be a doctor, you should definately pursue it. However, you would probably be happier if you chose something that you loved. Just remember that nothing is the way that it is portrayed on television.

Pues tienes que estudiar mucho son 6 a帽os de la carrera de medicina, despues haces un a帽o de servicio, haces el examen de residencia y si lo pasas tienes que cursar 2 a帽os de medicina interna y posteriormente cursar tres a帽os de nefrologia.

Pues depende de lo que quieras terminar, puedes terminar medicina interna 4 a帽os y luego hacer 3 a帽os de casi cualquier subespecialidad o hacer solo de 2 a 3 a帽os de medicina interna y luego la subespecialialidad.

Para estudiar nefrolog铆a se necesita primero terminar 6-7 a帽os de Medicina general y luego hacer una especialidad durante 5 a帽os m谩s.

Hola Manda, para lo que mencionas primero que nada debes cursar la carrera de medicina general, y posteriormente hacer una subesecialidad, para nefrologia o para infectologia, cualquiera de las dos son ramas de la especialidad de medicina interna, sin embargo son muy diferentes, ya que una se trata de todo lo que es el ri帽on y su enfermedades, y la de infectolgia trata todas las enfermedades que son causadas por parasitos, virus, bacterias, hongos, debes tomar una decision sobre que te gustaria estudiar mas.