Surgeons

10 YEARS

If all goes as planned...and you do not have to repeat anything along the way...in general...four years of undergraduate work, four years of general medical school training...five to six years of general surgical training...and one to two more of sub-specialty / fellowship training. What's that, about 15 or so? That's of course, after successfully completing 13 years of K-12! 28 years of working hard and doing your best, ...doing well enough on the many tests along the way, ...and sticking with it, even when you felt you could not. Good Luck with your journey, wherever you are at on it... This is a different jeff, but it sounds as though the person above is trying to put people off becoming a plastic surgeon ...very lame. If you really want to become a plastic surgeon... go for it...don't let anyone hold you back or put you off.
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Depending on what field of expertices you are looking for, it may vary from 3-8 years, the level of which you have chosen to study will hinder how long you will need to be a qualified surgeon.

you can train to be a doctor from 16 then spend 4 years at medical school then become a trainee doctor at a hospital

There are different types of doctors, from medical, to educational, to social science etc. Each have requirement particular to themselves. Basically though, a doctorate takes approximately eight years beyond high school completion. However, the may be further requirements for some as in the case of a medical doctor.

A pediatrician commonly starts his/her day in the Newborn Nursery at the local hospital, examining newborns within 24 hours of birth. Here the pediatrician will begin to form what will hopefully become a long-term relationship with the baby's family, dispensing information, advice and reassurance about caring for their baby to the new parents. Once arriving in the office around 9 AM, the pediatrician will divide his/her time between doing well-baby and well-child exams and seeing children with specific complaints. Usually the mornings are booked with regularly scheduled health maintenance exams of children younger than school age and the late afternoon hours are filled with visits of school-aged children. Large group practices are now staffing their offices during evening and weekend hours as well.

Plastic surgeons are licensed medical physicians and go to medical school like all physicians (assuming of course that they are practicing legally and are properly licensed and board-certified).

While you don't have to complete a 4-year, bachelor's degree prior to applying to a dental school, most students applying to a dental school have such a degree. Typical college coursework for people looking to become dentists or Oral Surgeons includes chemistry, physics, biology, health and mathematics.

To prepare yourslef for the intense competition you will experience in one of the toughest disciplines in the field of medicine, you should test your mettle now in the toughest course your high school has to offer. That means taking as many first-track, honors, and AP courses as you can possibly handle. Ace those and with decent SATs or ACTs, you should be able to get into a top-drawer college. Assuming you do well in college, you will hopefully get into a top medical school, where you'll fight it out with other top guns who want to be surgeons. Good luck and God bless you.

Since a plastic surgeon is a doctor, it would be best to take academically rigorous classes - 4 years of English, 4 years of science, etc. Good luck! Know you chemistry, calculous, and biology. I'm in college right now and those are the most challenging courses that usually weed people out when they wan't to persue medical school. If you don't do well in these classes when you first get into college, it's easy to get discouraged. GO FOR IT!

An orthopedic surgeon works on the skeletal system, or better known as bones.

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Tiger Woods knee surgeons were Thomas Rosenberg and Vernon J Cooley who share a practice (Rosenberg, Cooley, Metcalf) in Park City, Utah. Both have performed 3 surgeries on Tiger's knee: two scopes and one ACL.

they do surgery on brains to save peoples lives.

they also improve people brains by operating and exploring people.

The surgical removal of a portion of an intervertebral disk

This is done to decrease the number of contaminants that enter the surgical site. Such as bacteria.

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This is a hard question to answer. This is such a common surgery in the US these days that the amount of surgeon related errors are very low. You should check out a site such as obesityhelp.com it has ratings on surgeons and unbiased reviews from all over the world not just the USA. Did you know this surgery costs $35k in the US and 90% of insurance companies do not cover it! You should look into having this surgery abroad in a country like Mexico or Costa Rica. The hospitals are almost twice as nice as the hospitals in the US. Also majority of the surgeons have much more experience than surgeons in the USA primarily because both countries have been doing this surgery longer than it has been approved in the US to be done. You could save over 60%! Good luck in your decision.

Sometimes the surgeon who did the mastectomy can recommend a plastic surgeon. I had my reconstruction " tram flap" done by a plastic surgeon who is also a hand surgeon , he specilized in reconstruction and micro vascular surgery but also does facelifts and other plastic surgery. I had gone to 3 plastic sugeons for consultation, all were recommended, and picked the one that spend the most time with me, answered all my questions, explained everything in detail, pros and cons of the type of procedure I wanted.

It depends.

These persons earn the best in the field of Physician - Radiology, Radiologist - Diagnostic, Doctor - Radiology, Radiologist.

But you sit in a dark room and look at images all day long.

Yeah surgeons do get vacation. Some more than others though. If you're say, a colorectal surgeon in private practice you probably will have some pretty good vacation time. If you're a transplant surgeon working in an academic/hospital setting then vacation time will be almost non-existent.

The entry level income for a general surgeon is about $54 per hour. For a 2080 hour year, that would equal about $112,000.

Ether unconsciousness. In the past this was used a lot... now, I think, there are many safer gasses that are used in surgery.

The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons reports that in 2003, there are 15,853 active fellows, 1,829 resident members, and 2,240 candidate members, for a total of 19,922 orthopedic surgeons in the United States.

1. Graduate College (4 years) 2. Apply to, and be accepted by a Medical School. 3. Graduate Medical School (4 years) 4. Apply for, and be accepted by a Surgical Residency Training Program at a teaching hospital 5. Complete the Residency Program (4 to 8 years, depending on what type of Surgery) 6. Pass your Specialty Board Certification examination.