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Cardio32, this is the Classified Ads forum for posting job openings. Your question needs to be posted on our regular forums in order for you to get answers.
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Four years.
Yes. But then you have to do a residency to actually practice. So plan on another 3-7 years (4+ on average) on top of that before you are considered done with your training.
Well yeah but he didn't say that he just mention med school. For some specialties don't you have to do a fellowship? 1-2 years? I think you do for Neurology and Neurosurgery, I think.
Fellowships generally are done to subspecialize but are not, per se, required. Bear in mind that neurosurgery involves many years of residency so you can expect to school and train for well over a decade. You can practice neurology after 4 years of residency (a preliminary year of medicine or transitional, plus three of neurology). Many folks do a fellowship thereafter but it is not mandatory to practice in the field.
I wouldn't compare surgical and nonsurgical fields like the above because the residency path, mandatory research years, hours, and total years involved are like night and day between those two fields. Neurosurg is one of the longest paths, and probably for good reason.
In medicine you're looking at years upon years of training so honestly a couple more years for your choice field isn't going to make the difference between an extremely long process to begin with and "forever".
General surgery is a 5 year residency.
General surgery is a 5 year residency.
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When someone is a 16 year old junior in high school, and is investigating a career goal that will take another 15 years to meet, it SEEMS like forever. It's not though. Time flies. You're actually experiencing other things in life besides the goal oriented education during that time.
Dangit! I knew I forgot something. 😛 But in all seriousness, Humid is right, time does go faster as you get older and you do experience a lot on the way. Medicine can also be a lot of fun if you enjoy it and the only time that may seem forever would be the process of getting in
. Plus you never know where you'll end up in the future so try recollecting your thoughts into step-by-step basis, like getting into college. You may also change your mind from time to time. You may think general surgery is the best for now, but maybe fall in love with orthopedics next year after watching a surgeon replace an amputated leg.When I was younger, I always thought I would be a pediatrician or a general physician because that's the only doctor I was exposed to and that's all I thought there was. It wasn't until I got into high school that I discovered surgery and I thought it was the most amazing thing ever. Since then, I cant tell you how many surgical specialties I imagine myself part-taking. In the end, who knows, I may hate surgery when I get to my rotations.
The moral of the story is to keep an open-mind for the future. Live your life now and try planning things one step at a time. Fifteen years may seem forever now but if you plan to go to college anyways then that's only 10 more years to deal with. With a medical school training, that would only be 6 more years. Those six more years of residency may still seem long especially stack with those other years, but these years you will be working in a hospital and gaining hands-on experience opposed to sitting in a class room and studying for a test.
True dat.
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