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Essential Information. Doctors are licensed medical practitioners who have undergone 11-15 years of training to gain a license. This usually includes four years of undergraduate education followed by four years of medical school, divided into two years of classroom training in medicine and two years of clinical training.
All would-be doctors must then attend medical school, which usually takes four years to complete. Though there is no major in medical school, students are required to complete clinical rotations in a number of departments, including orthopedics and surgery.