Academic Transplant Surgeons?

[Petey Piston]

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I've read about Indiana University's School of Medicine Abdominal Transplant Surgeon fellowship

I read it was an academic position. How do academic positions work? Do you become a professor?

How much do academic abdominal(liver, kidney, pancreas, etc) transplant surgeons make? No one seems to post data about it anywhere!

Also, is transplant surgery the best medical management-surgical combination out there? I've also heard of OB/GYN, is there any others?

Sorry lots of questions, but I'd feel much more at ease if I had a few answers 🙂

(Sorry if this was a repeat for anyone, I was told to move this here)

 

[cowme]

I've read about Indiana University's School of Medicine Abdominal Transplant Surgeon fellowship

I read it was an academic position. How do academic positions work? Do you become a professor?

How much do academic abdominal(liver, kidney, pancreas, etc) transplant surgeons make? No one seems to post data about it anywhere!

Also, is transplant surgery the best medical management-surgical combination out there? I've also heard of OB/GYN, is there any others?

Sorry lots of questions, but I'd feel much more at ease if I had a few answers 🙂

(Sorry if this was a repeat for anyone, I was told to move this here)

Academic=employed by university hospital. In addition to surgery and clinic, academic docs teach and do research as well.

Academic surgeons typically make far less than private surgeons, so I would expect avg salary in the 250k to 350k range. However transplant surgeons probably work the most hours of anyone in the hospital, and are pretty much always called in the middle of the night.

Ob gyn (other than gyn onc surg) is not really close to the same type of surgery as transplant, but I would say any oncologic surgeon has a great mix of medicine and surgery. Also consider colorectal, thoracic, cardiac, urology, ent, endocrine-onc surgery for a good deal of medicine and patient follow up.

 

[xanthomondo]

If I were a transplant surgeon I'd be afraid of getting hepC from a liver transplant my entire career.

 

[Lokhtar]

Isn't the risk the same in all surgery though? Or do transplant surgeons have more of a risk?

 

[ACSurgeon]

Isn't the risk the same in all surgery though? Or do transplant surgeons have more of a risk?

Hep C is more common in liver transplant patients (who need a new liver because of Hep C induced cirrhosis) than your average surgical patient.

But you are right, every patient should be treatd as a potential risk for infection transmission.

 

[ProtossCarrier]

You don't want to be an academic transplant surgeon.

 

[Petey Piston]

Well most of the transplant surgeons are academic, so I wouldn't have any choice...any salary ranges for these surgeons? I'd guess 275-300k.

Do neurosurgeons have a lot of medical management and patient follow-up? I know transplant surgeons care patients pre to post op, what other surgical specialties do this?