Becoming a Cardiothoracic Surgeon: Skills, Education, and Tasks

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To become a cardiothoracic surgeon, there are certain job tasks, special skills and talents, as well as a higher education that is needed. Not only do you need to have many talents, such as problem solving, being able to work with blood, and being able to tell someone their loved one has died, you also have to be able to have a higher education, to become a surgeon you need to have your Doctoral degree, your post-doctoral degree, and your professional degree, I plan on attending Stanford University, Stanford California or John Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland. Some of the job tasks that you have to do for this job is follow a certain procedure which includes, following surgical techniques during the operation, examine the patient to …show more content…

The first year of highschool, will be a really important year for starting my future career in the medical field, I will have to try and take a lot of health classes, science classes, and other classes to help me prepare for my astonishing future . I’d be taking a lot of health classes throughout my whole high school years. Some of the courses that I would need to take are, medicine and dentistry, customer and personal service, and english. I’d also need to attend biology, education and training, psychology, and computers and technology. More courses I would attend are personal and human resources, therapy and counseling, administration and management, law and government, sales and marketing, AP chemistry, engineering and technology, mathematics, mechanical, and economic and accounting. Then, in college I would need to take the classes I didn’t take there, and i’d also have to get my Doctoral degree, Post-Doctoral degree, and my Professional degree. Also, I would have to go to school for my required doctor of medication degree, residency and fellowships in cardiothoracics, and my license. Becoming a surgeon requires a lot of schooling, not only do you need to attend health classes but you also have to attend science classes too. Some people say it’s too much schooling to complete while you’re still young, but i’m up for the challenge of completing the schooling …show more content…

While I was researching this career, I had found out that the wage for having this career is $100.00+ an hour, and $208,000+ a year. I had also found out a lot of other professions you could go into, related jobs are: medical scientist/ expert epidemiologists, nursing instructor teacher post secondary, oral maxillofacial surgeon, pharmacist, anesthesiologist, internists general, hospitalists, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioner, and even a nurse midwife. Some other information I found was amazing about going into the medical field is that 21,500 jobs in this field are available. Some of the work values I found that you gain from this job, independence, recognition, and achievement. I believe that this career would be an amazing job for me because i’ve always loved learning about the human body, a lot of my family has gone into the medical field so I want to continue to keep it going in the family. Also, I think working with a heart and being able to say you saved someone's life would be

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