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what type of degree i need to be a cardiac surgeon??
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Sharon’s Answer
Hi Enrique! To become a cardiac surgeon, you need to:
1) Graduate high school (4yrs);
2) Get a Bachelor's Degree (4-year college) with a focus on pre-medical studies/courses;
3) Go to Medical School for at least 4 years. Its a good idea to do an additional year of research with a cardiac surgeon as your mentor.
4a) Apply to General Surgery residency (5years), then Cardiothoracic fellowship after residency (2-3 yrs); OR
4b) Apply for an integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery residency (6 years).
Its a very long process, but focus on doing your best every step along the way. That way, if you change your mind at any time, you will still have options. Good luck!
1) Graduate high school (4yrs);
2) Get a Bachelor's Degree (4-year college) with a focus on pre-medical studies/courses;
3) Go to Medical School for at least 4 years. Its a good idea to do an additional year of research with a cardiac surgeon as your mentor.
4a) Apply to General Surgery residency (5years), then Cardiothoracic fellowship after residency (2-3 yrs); OR
4b) Apply for an integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery residency (6 years).
Its a very long process, but focus on doing your best every step along the way. That way, if you change your mind at any time, you will still have options. Good luck!
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Thanhthuy’s Answer
Hi Enrique, you would need of course a high school diploma, a bachelor's degree of your choice for undergraduate studies, a medical degree from a medical school before pursuing the specialty of your choice. Good luck on your studies!!!
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Jeffrey’s Answer
To become a Cardia Surgeon you should have:
1- four years fo college leading to a BA or BS; , and include a year of Biology, two years of Chemistry, a year of Physics and a year of calculus; and a distribution of language and humanities
2 - To get into a US medical school you need a good application a GPA of at lest 3.5
3 - 3-4 years of US Medical School, leading to md or DO degree, with good grades and references
4 - Residency training, including a year of General Surgery, and advanced Surgical residency traing aiming at Cardio-Thoracic certification - this is usually 5-6 years after graduation from medical school
You need the fortitude and personal life skills to endure this.
1- four years fo college leading to a BA or BS; , and include a year of Biology, two years of Chemistry, a year of Physics and a year of calculus; and a distribution of language and humanities
2 - To get into a US medical school you need a good application a GPA of at lest 3.5
3 - 3-4 years of US Medical School, leading to md or DO degree, with good grades and references
4 - Residency training, including a year of General Surgery, and advanced Surgical residency traing aiming at Cardio-Thoracic certification - this is usually 5-6 years after graduation from medical school
You need the fortitude and personal life skills to endure this.
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Cindy’s Answer
If you know you want to be in medicine, there are some programs that offer combined undergrad and med school training to complete in 6 years, and then you would move on to residency and fellowship training. To do specifically heart surgery requires extra training, that usually is fulfilled by doing general surgery residency which can be 3-5 years and then fellowship training in heart surgery which is 2-3 years (integrated program would combine the general surgery and heart surgery into 6 years total.