What Collage courses would I have to take to become a Rheumatologist?

You're looking at med school - so pre-med programs are heavy on science and math. Drs don't actually specialize until they do their residency - so that's after your undergraduate degree, and after you finish med school. However, most docs - if they don't know already - decide on a specialty when they do rotations. So in your 3/4th year of med school you will do rotations - like internships - in several specialties - from surgery to Ob/Gyn to orthopedics to pediatrics and many others. Rheumatology is lumped with "Internal Medicine" much of the time when doing rotations. (A

Thank you for wanting to be a rheumatologist!
I don't know what to tell you, other than heavy science! As a patient with both Sjogren's Syndrome and Rheumatoid Arthritis, (and "probably" Lupus), I still don't understand how this works!
There are not a lot of rheumatologists, and definitely, not a lot of good ones! It requires a bit of counseling skills along with the medical skills. There are just soooo many things about these illnesses that is just sooo unfair! And, if you try to "forget" that you are "sick" and just act like a normal person, you get even sicker!

I hope you are able to participate in some research / clinical trials. I also hope that when you do your rotations, you find a hospital that cares enough about rheumatology to separate it out from internal medicine.

Best of luck,
Kim

Most of the pre-med curriculum focuses on biology, chemistry, and some math like Calculus.