College Confidential - View Single Post - Is becoming a neurosurgeon really as difficult as they say?

Jamiecakes · 04-23-2009, 07:52 PM

My neurosurgeon went to medical school-->Got his PhD-->Did a surgical residency-->then did a neurosurgery specialty residency -->then did a fellowship in skull base surgery. He went to Duke(89), Cornell med(97), Rockefeller PhD (97), San Francisco General and then neurosurgery (98-03), Brigham and Womens (04).

So he graduated highschool around 1985 and was done and ready to practice neurosurgery in 2004 in his mid-thirties.

04-23-2009, 07:52 PM	#16
Jamiecakes Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 260	It is a long haul. My neurosurgeon went to medical school-->Got his PhD-->Did a surgical residency-->then did a neurosurgery specialty residency -->then did a fellowship in skull base surgery. He went to Duke(89), Cornell med(97), Rockefeller PhD (97), San Francisco General and then neurosurgery (98-03), Brigham and Womens (04). So he graduated highschool around 1985 and was done and ready to practice neurosurgery in 2004 in his mid-thirties.
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