Thoracic Surgeon

Thoracic Surgeon

Duties and Responsibilities:

A thoracic surgeon is a medical doctor who performs operations on the heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs in the chest.  They can be called cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, general thoracic surgeons, and congenital heart surgeons.

Salary:

$ 415,643

Education:

Thoracic surgeons have to gr graduate from medical school and most commonly will go on to complete a five-year general surgery residency. After this they must successfully matriculate through an approved cardiothoracic surgery residency program for either two or three years.

Others however, choose to do additional training in a sub-specialized area but this training is largely optional, except for congenital heart surgery.

Reflection:

This career isn’t as great for me as I would’ve thought so, probably because this career seems way to complicate and I just can’t deal with any openings in people’s body’s.