After training as a regular surgeon, a neurosurgeon in America will take on an additional 5-7 year neurosurgery residency program. If they have a sub-specialty (pediatric neurosurgery, etc.) it will be an additional 1-3 years in residency. Neurosurgery has the longest training period for any medical specialty.
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Brain surgeons, or neurosurgeons, have a median income of $536,057 per year. Anesthesiologists have a median salary of $350,123 per year, so neurosurgeons make more.
Neurosurgeons are some of the highest paid surgeons, often making over $500,000 per year.
Neurosurgeon: A physician trained in surgery of the nervous system and who specializes in surgery on the brain and other parts of the nervous system. Sometimes called a "brain surgeon."
A pediatric surgeon operates on children and focuses on child-specific health issues, while a regular surgeon deals with adults.
he would need to know how to use a knife and how to cut somebodys poor scalp off!
In the US, at least, you can't become a surgeon without also being a "regular doctor." So, yes.
For a doctor to become a surgeon, additional years of training and steady hands are necessary.
what are the requirements
Yes of course a surgeon needs to have specialized training to perform any medical procedure including face lifts. Although compared to complex surgeries it is relatively simple procedure a surgeon would still have to have some training to perform a face lift.
No one wins money in these professions. However, a cardiac surgeon has more training and education than a general surgeon and so she makes more.
There is no such thing as a surgeon major. You first become a doctor then you attend training at a hospital (not a college) to become a surgeon. I'm a doctor