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How do you expect hiring for psychiatry in the region to increase, decrease, or stay the same over the next few years?

I'm currently completing my diploma as well as a trade on the side. I plan on going to community college for two years and then to a 4-year college. After that to get my bachelor's and masters. I'd like to know what it takes to get through all of these courses to get the optimal outcome. I know it's a solid commitment and I'm willing to work for it so I don't need reminders about how hard it's going to be.

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Michel’s Answer

Doubling down on Suuzanne’s great answer, but yes Psychology and Psychiatry work together, but do have different pathways. Psychiatry will work more on med management whereas the Psychologist will work on helping the patient with therapy, techniques, ect. Both are great career paths and mental health care is a growing field and is picking up some pretty good traction with more jobs. Psychology has an estimated growth of 6% over the next decade or so which is in line with the average. Psychiatry has an estimated growth of about 12% which is above the average of other careers. These are fields that have a lot of movement people are coming into them and out of them frequently. It will really come down to what interests you more. If you like the human psyche and understanding the very small details of the brain and the ways to fix it with medications and how those interactions work Psychiatry is great. If you are interested in learning how different therapies work. How the brain works and really understanding not just Psychology but also Sociology and how Socioeconomic status and society as a whole correlates to patients Psychology may be up your alley.
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Suzanne’s Answer

Congrats, Kane, on having an ambitious and exciting plan you have laid out for yourself. At some point along the way, probably around the time you are transferring your community college course credits to a four-year university, you will want to decide between becoming a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist. Both of these are well-respected professions which help people deal with their mental health but they are two very distinct career paths. Psychologists study in graduate school and have at least masters, often doctorate degrees. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who have graduated from medical school and then completed a psychiatry residency (typically four years). As physicians, psychiatrists can prescribe and manage medications for their patients.

You asked about hiring prospects for psychiatrists. According to o*net (an excellent source of occupational info), the hiring prospects for psychiatrists are very good and expected to grow rapidly. Employment trends for clinical and counseling psychologists are also very bright.
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