How to Get Medical Jobs : How to Become a Heart Surgeon

[Nipponkoku]

This is a little misleading.

After you get your Medical Doctor degree, you enter a 5 year general surgery residency. AFTER 5 years in general surgery, you apply to a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship. The fellowship is mandatory, as hospitals won't permit you to perform heart and lung operations without completing a fellowship.

Also, fellowships for CT Surgery are usually 2 years, not 3 years.

[echoes19671969]

@Nipponkoku. A fellowship is technically any training after your general surgery residency. Most hospitals, however, call the Cardiac Surgery fellowship a residency because most of them offer an extra year, which they consider fellowship, to gain additional experience is specific disciplines of cardiac surgery(Pediatric cardiac, transplant surgery, etc.)

[orlandosoplon77]

@Nipponkoku do all surgical specialties require general surgery? for example if i want to be a orthopaedic surgeon or lets say a neurosurgeon, do i have to complete 5 years of general surgery first? thank you

[Nipponkoku]

@orlandosoplon77 Not all surgical specialties require general surgery. Neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery are both their own residency programs, meaning, after med school you go straight into either orthopedic surgery or neurosurgical training programs. Usually, orthopedic surgery lasts 5 years and neurosurgery lasts ~7 years.

The specialties requiring gen. surgery are heart, transplant, pediatric, surgical oncology, some plastic surgery, trauma, and vascular.

Message me with any questions.

[thekillerreaperz]

holy snap..i do think that ALL of those years of paying a ton of money for school saving lives when you are the wall between life and death it is all worth it.

[BurstingTears]

Very well information