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1.) Plastics is now a residency. It may also still be a fellowship, but most people who go into it enter it as a residency. Many residencies are seven years long.
2.) You get to call yourself a plastic surgeon when you begin your internship. It will technically be a true statement. You do not, however, have independence in the Operating Room or the incomes usually associated with a waiter, much less a platic surgeon, for another seven years.
3.) There is nothing to do during high school or even undergrad that pertains to specialty choice, even if you're 100% confident that that is what you will enter into.
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