Saturday, December 3, 2011

How do you become a Pediatric surgeon?

Like Ben Carson? He is a pediatric neurosurgeon.
So did he just do a residency within neurosurgery then freshly decided he needed to do pediatrics or did he do pediatrics then neurosurgery?
What is the standard procedure on this.How do you become a Pediatric surgeon?
The standard procedure is to train within surgery first (general surgery if you want to be a pediatric surgeon; neurosurgery if you want to be a pediatric neurosurgeon, orthopedic surgery if you want to be a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, etc.)
Pediatricians are useless in the OR, except for neonatal resuscitation at C-sections. Other than that, we don't see them surrounded by the OR at all.
To become a pediatric surgeon, you'd after do a fellowship in pediatric surgery (they do procedures that common surgeons don't do). If you want to focus on the pediatric cases in another surgical subspecialty, you could do second training, or you could just run out there and factor your practice to pediatric cases. The other surgical specialties include some pediatric cases in their training.
In pills, you can ALWAYS do more training. Look at everything Ben Carson did:
http://www.hopkinsneuro.org/cv/neuro_ped...
Hope that clears things up.
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The standard is to do surgery (neurosurgery or broad surgery), followed by a pediatric fellowship. Pediatrics is not a surgical field, so it will not prepare you within the slightest to operate on kids, even though you understand their physiology and disease conditions better.

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