Which Arizona schools offer allergist/immunologist programs?

Allergists and immunologists begin by getting their Bachelor’s Degree.  From there, they also need a four-year medical degree and a three-year fellowship in either internal medicine or pediatrics.

While obtaining the undergraduate degree, those wishing to pursue becoming an allergist should be sure to include some basic prerequisites in their studies, including premedical classes, humanities, physics, math, social sciences, and organic and inorganic chemistry.  Medical school will include classes on anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, psychology, microbiology and various general medicine courses.  Those will fill your first two years in medical school.  From there, you’ll have two years of clinical training.

There are nine teaching hospitals in Arizona – three in Tucson (including the University Medical Center) and six in Phoenix (including the Phoenix Children’s Hospital and the Maricopa Medical Center). 

Once you’ve completed medical school, those wishing to become an allergist must also add three more years of training – either in internal medicine or in pediatrics.  Then you must be board certified before you begin your own practice, which usually comes after a fellowship study (a period in which you train/study specifically for the allergist board exams) in an allergy/immunology program.

Healthcare is the number-one hiring field across the country right now – and with one in five persons dealing with allergies, this is a lucrative field.