The surgeon: no room for error

A surgeon - not everyone can do. Students begin to understand this, having visited several operations. Not for nothing, many of those who are a freshman dreaming of becoming a surgeon, the fourth to radically change their minds and opt for a more leisurely medical specialties. From the course of about 35 people, only one or two students enter residency in surgery.

At the same time, surgeons are always needed - without them it is impossible to imagine a hospital or clinic. They reduce a dislocation, "repairing" broken, remove the tumor, cut appendicitis and conduct many other operations, depending on their specialization. The result of their work to really feel and understand everything.

However, surgeons salaries tend to be small: most professionals working in public hospitals in the budget rates.

In commercial medical centers offer high fees, but here are mostly in demand wizard plastic surgery.

Seven or eight years at the university

Specialty "General Medicine" in medical schools is traditionally famous for its "inaccessibility": competition four or five people in place. There are cases when medical students are the second, the third attempt. Do the first time - a great success.

Specialty "Surgery" in universities does not exist, but there is "Medicine". From the first to the third year students are taught general medical disciplines (surgery and including) special items starting with the fourth year.

At each medical school, there are several circles "of interest": if a student decided to devote himself to the surgery, he was in the third year goes to scientific surgical circle. That's where the future professionals gain valuable experience - on duty in hospitals, at present operations, and sometimes (if the head of trust) operate themselves. In the circles to discuss urgent problems of surgery, exploring new medical techniques and technologies.

But the end of high school - not final stage. If the graduate is still convinced that the surgery - his fate, he must obtain post-graduate education.

At six years of study at the university added two more years of study at the residency (or one internship). The graduates enter residency with honors or honors, internship - for the less academically successful students. However, in the residency can do today and troechnik - but only on a fee basis, the question is, who would then need a specialist, and if he finds a job easily.

From theory to practice

Any operation - it is the whole team: the surgeon, his two assistants, surgical nurses, an anesthesiologist. Sometimes it takes a few hours. The next day, the surgeon is obliged to come to the patient - to examine, to tie up, to agree with the doctor on duty the further treatment of the patient. Therefore, if the surgeon is officially a five-day working week (excluding duty), it is actually not uncommon unplanned outputs to and from work on Saturday and Sunday.

Learn from the specialty "Medicine" complex: teachers are asked strictly, concessions do not - on your knowledge and skills directly related to human life. And things have to learn not the easiest. Three Pillars of the specialty "Medicine" - medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology. On these subjects is given most academic hours. Shtudirovanie other equally important disciplines:.. Anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, etc. - will also take a decent share of your study time.

enormous amount of information and medical students need to clearly allocate their time to learn all the time. It happens that good students are driving themselves into a corner. It should be once is not ready - you will receive unsatisfactory. To fix it you need time, and debts have a feature to grow like a snowball ...

waiting for work in hospital wards have to learn how to use syringes and other medical instruments except university classrooms, textbooks and notebooks of students. What kind of doctor are you, if you know about the operations only by hearsay? Here it is necessary not only to watch but also participate.

During study medical students go through several practices:

 sanitarskaya - sophomores nurses working in hospitals and clinics;

 sister - in the third year, students take care of the sick, provide first aid, are present on the operations;

 medical - after the fourth year, students practiced in the medical field of their choice: they write the history of the disease, the diagnosis, and so on..

It is said that a man falling into a swoon at the sight of blood, can not be operated by the surgeon. In fact, cool - a matter of habit. Anyone, even the most experienced doctor, a student getting bad in the first operations.

Practice students are usually in urban hospitals with which the university signed an agreement, or simply in the departments of clinics, where there is appropriate medical department. In any clinic there work for interns - nurses is never enough.

The first operation is a novice surgeon is held under the supervision of experienced physicians. Someone - already in his third year, someone - during residency training. It all depends on the surgeon, under whom you will be working on how soon he will entrust you to take a scalpel in hand.

Death on the operating table - the most difficult test for the surgeon. But it's part of the job. Professional I obliged to cross and through this tragedy. After all, next to the patient needs a strong, self-assured doctor.

How to build a career

You can go to work as a surgeon in a conventional clinic, but here only examine the patient, and in case of serious problems - is sent to the hospital (hospital).

those working in the hospital, who really wants to become the operating surgeon. Operate here have to often and you can quickly gain the necessary experience. Accordingly will grow and qualifications: general surgeon, surgeon specialist second, first and the last, the highest category. In parallel, you can build an administrative career (Surgeon-ordinator, Senior Registrar, Head. Of the surgical department) and to engage in science (assistant professor, professor).

Specializations in surgery are many:

 general surgery (surgery on abdominal organs);

 Cardiovascular (operations on the heart and blood vessels);

 thoracic surgery (surgery of the chest);

 neurosurgery (brain surgery, spine);

 oncosurgery (removal of tumors);

 abdominal surgery (surgery of the abdomen organs).

Surgeons determined with specialization already studying in residency. It is impossible to become an expert in a certain narrow field of surgery, not having a diploma of completed higher medical education.