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I am a humanities student of grade 12. The subjects included in my stream are English, history, sociology, political science and psychology. I am very much interested in pursuing psychiatry, is there anyway I can do that? Or will I have to look for something other than psychiatry under psychology?
I have heard that we can attend a foundation course, will that help in any way?

Yes,you can pursue psychiatry for Humanities student.

To become a psychiatrist , candidates must have a MBBS degree .

Humanities student can become psychologist but not psychiatrist. For becoming psychiatrist student need to be MBBS but for becoming psychologist students can take any stream.

In order to become a psychiatrist one has to go through

MBBS degree is a pre requisite for being considered for a PG seat in psychiatry.

A 5 year degree in medicine , recognised by General Medical Council

2 year foundation programme of general training

3 year of core training in psychiatry.

3 years if training in speciality.

Those who are not interested in MBBS can go for becoming a psycologist by completing their bachelor's and masters in psychology.

The minimum qualification required to pursue a Psychiatry is a candidate must have passed 10+2 in the Science stream with biology as one of the compulsory subjects from a recognized board. After that a student will have to complete MBBS and then will have to enroll for the Psychiatry MD course or a diploma in Psychiatry. After completing class 12th one must clear admission tests for universities and institutes that offer this course and a few medical entrance exams conducted for medical admission are given below.

--> National Entrance Examination Test (NEET)
--> AIIMS EE
--> JIMPER EE
--> SCTIMIST EE
--> NIMHANS EE