Yet another good answer from my fellow critical care provider, N.
General surgery itself is a specialty, where you operate mostly on the abdomen. Just don't touch the pancreas.
She listed several fellowships available to those who have successfully completed a general surgery residency. A few more are cardiothoracic surgery, bariatric surgery, transplant surgery, hepatobiliary surgery.
As she said, people don't usually do more than one fellowship, as those are already subspecialties themselves. You want to be really good at what you do, not just decent at many things.
There are obviously exceptions to this, for example, to become a hepatobiliary surgeon, a "super fellowship" is often required, meaning that the few HPB surgery programs that exist, accept mostly applicants who have done both a general surgery residency, as well as either a transplant surgery or surgical oncology fellowship.
Also, don't get too far ahead of yourself. It's great to Be ambitious, however, by the time you get done with residency you are going to really be ready to finally start making some real money. It will be tempting to find a job as an attending general surgeon and not even do 1 fellowship, let alone several.
You probably would do like ER room surgeries if you were general, unless it was absolutely necessary you wouldnt do anything very big in any one specific area of medicine seeing as that's what the specialists are for..you'd do just that, basic general surgeries most likely in a ER
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There are several fellowships you can do after a general surgery residency.
- pediatric surgery, plastics, colorectal, endocrine, vascular, oncology, critical care, probably others I can't think of right now.
Practically you do one fellowship because you cannot specialize in too many areas, you will never be good that way spreading yourself too thin.
Yet another good answer from my fellow critical care provider, N.
General surgery itself is a specialty, where you operate mostly on the abdomen. Just don't touch the pancreas.
She listed several fellowships available to those who have successfully completed a general surgery residency. A few more are cardiothoracic surgery, bariatric surgery, transplant surgery, hepatobiliary surgery.
As she said, people don't usually do more than one fellowship, as those are already subspecialties themselves. You want to be really good at what you do, not just decent at many things.
There are obviously exceptions to this, for example, to become a hepatobiliary surgeon, a "super fellowship" is often required, meaning that the few HPB surgery programs that exist, accept mostly applicants who have done both a general surgery residency, as well as either a transplant surgery or surgical oncology fellowship.
Also, don't get too far ahead of yourself. It's great to Be ambitious, however, by the time you get done with residency you are going to really be ready to finally start making some real money. It will be tempting to find a job as an attending general surgeon and not even do 1 fellowship, let alone several.
You probably would do like ER room surgeries if you were general, unless it was absolutely necessary you wouldnt do anything very big in any one specific area of medicine seeing as that's what the specialists are for..you'd do just that, basic general surgeries most likely in a ER