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A neurosurg residency is 7 years. The only board certified fellowship currently available is endovascular NS, which is another year.
A cardiology fellowship is 3 years but also requires 3 years of an Internal Medicine residency.
If you want to become an electrophysiologist or interventional cardiologist, you have to tack on an extra year beyond the three years of cards and three years of IM...
So 7 years or 8 years after graduating med school? Granted NS is the only specialty in which every single residency program has applied for and received an exemption to the 80 hour work week, and you will be taking call every second night (even if it is from home), but fellowship in cards is no cakewalk either...and the lifestyle of the interventional cardiologists isn't much different from the neurosurgeons.
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