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

Becoming a heart surgeon, or cardiac surgeon, requires the typical medical doctor training followed by several years in a surgical residency and several more years in a cardiac fellowship. Learn about becoming a heart surgeon with tips from a medical administrator in this free video on career information.

Expert: Mark MacBayne
Bio: Mark MacBayne, with a Master of Public Health degree, is a practice manager at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
Filmmaker: Bing Hu

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[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

[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.

[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

[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.)

[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.