Fabian
My career choice is to be a plastic surgeon or nuero surgeon but i also am intrested into business
I am am not fully sure of what the requirements of a surgeon are as well as a business man. but what really interest me is business because i have little experience and i would like to master that skill, really because i enjoy it.#business #plasticsurgeon #neurosurgery
2 answers
Arpit Patel
Arpit’s Answer
Getting into a career in Plastic or Neurosurgery is a long and difficult path. To give you an idea of what it takes after high school:
-4 years of college
-4 years of medical school (note: there are some combined programs which might save you a year, but almost everyone does 8 years between undergraduate college and medical school)
After medical school, depending on your grades and test scores, you will do one of the following:
-5-7 year general surgery residency + 3 years plastic surgery fellowship (plus optional 1-2 year other fellowship)
-6-7 years plastic surgery residency (plus optional 1-2 year fellowship)
-7-8 year neurosurgery residency (plus optional 1-2 year fellowship)
In total, this is 14-20 years of training after high school.
If you're interested in this, it starts early with a keen interest in math and science throughout high school and in college. You can actually choose to study anything you like in college (many history, business, engineer, arts, etc. students switch into medicine later), as long as you take a minimum handful of science courses. You then take the MCAT (medical college admissions test) after your 1st or 2nd year of college. It will test your math, science, and reading/analysis/reasoning skills. If you do well on this test, and have a good college GPA (ideally, over 3.5), you'll have a shot at getting into medical school. Plastic and Neurosurgery are very competitive specialties, so you'll want to do really well in medical school too.
I don't know too much about getting into "business", but your path to get into the field can be much more variable than the path above for a surgeon. It will likely be shorter too. But don't let length scare you away from doing something you love.
Leahanne Thomas
Leahanne’s Answer
Fabian,
I would suggest you start by understanding skills versus industries. Are you good at detail work or are you a big picture person? A surgeon requires meticulous attention to detail, one wrong cut... That is a skill. Medicine and health care are an industry. Do you have an interest in that industry? Business is a vast industry, with so many levels of skills from sales, to accounting, to operations. Start by determining your skills and then your industries of interest. For skills - are you good with people, things, ideas or data?