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02-22-2005, 09:54 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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| Becoming a Plastic Surgeon
I am interested in becoming a reconstructive/craniofacial plastic surgeon. Does anyone know the average salary? I do not want to do it for the money, but I was just wondering. Also, is an Integrated residency ideal?
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03-20-2005, 11:49 AM
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#2 | | Junior Member
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I want to be a Cosmetic/Reconstructive Surgeon too! As for the salary, it's purdy big. But I've decided that this specialty would be something I'd enjoy since like to fix things, fix anything.. It's a psychological issue, maybe something happened when I was a kid.
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03-20-2005, 02:18 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
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Wow!!! I want to be a pediatric reconstructive surgeon! It's weird how there are a couple of of wanting to be the same thing. where did you apply to college?
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03-20-2005, 02:40 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
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I got accepted to NYU, NEU, UCSD, UT Pan American (good medical program), UT Austin, Baylor. Still undecided
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03-28-2005, 08:48 PM
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#5 | | Junior Member
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How do you go about becoming one? You get a degree and then get into a good medical school? Then what...? Thanks
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03-29-2005, 10:33 AM
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#6 | | Junior Member
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Then you go onto a residency.
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03-29-2005, 12:32 PM
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#7 | | Junior Member
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Oh. So it's the same as all the other doctors.
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03-29-2005, 12:58 PM
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#8 | | Member
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You do your residency (5 years of general surgery). If you survive that you try to get lucky enough to get into a plastic surgery fellowship. Then a few years of that and your a plastic surgeon
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03-29-2005, 01:05 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
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It is one of the most competitive specialties so you need to be at the top of your medical school class to get into a good residency.
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03-31-2005, 12:33 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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plastic surgeons are gonna need good lawyers, as well as most other doctors. :/
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04-24-2005, 08:51 PM
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#11 | | New Member
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| Plastic Surgery Residency
just curious, while in a plastic or general surgery residency, what do the residents get paid per year.
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04-24-2005, 08:59 PM
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#12 | | Member
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Mid thirty thousand range up to high forties. When you consider the hours you work you make less then minimum wage usually.
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04-24-2005, 09:01 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
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If you divide the hours a surgical resident works by the annual salary, it probably works out to about minimum wage.
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04-24-2005, 11:13 PM
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Definitely not worth entering medicine if you are after money
Financial security? Yes
Rich like the doctors of old? Not anymore
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04-26-2005, 12:03 AM
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#15 | | Junior Member
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My friend makes about $8.00/hour for 80 hours/week at Scott&White.
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