<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>I got accepted to NYU, NEU, UCSD, UT Pan American (good medical program), UT Austin, Baylor. Still undecided</p>
<p>How do you go about becoming one? You get a degree and then get into a good medical school? Then what...? Thanks</p>
<p>Then you go onto a residency.</p>
<p>Oh. So it's the same as all the other doctors.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>plastic surgeons are gonna need good lawyers, as well as most other doctors. :/</p>
<p>just curious, while in a plastic or general surgery residency, what do the residents get paid per year.</p>
<p>Mid thirty thousand range up to high forties. When you consider the hours you work you make less then minimum wage usually.</p>
<p>If you divide the hours a surgical resident works by the annual salary, it probably works out to about minimum wage.</p>
<p>Definitely not worth entering medicine if you are after money</p>
<p>Financial security? Yes
Rich like the doctors of old? Not anymore</p>
<p>My friend makes about $8.00/hour for 80 hours/week at Scott&White.</p>
<p>i heard that you have to be at least at the top 5% of your medical class if you want to be considered a fellowship for plastic surgery as is for other specialties</p>
<p>Well the fellowship comes after the Gen. Surg. Res.. If you do well in that and have really good Exam grades then yes. By that point they don't really care about med school its more about what you did in your residency and where you did it. Not about where you got your base. Although I'm sure it could help</p>
<p>I have a Few questions of my own..</p>
<p>I recently STARTED my interest in Plastic Surgery
now, here is the catch im 23, I was wondering if im to late to start medicine to then become a plastic surgeon, another question what exactly is a residency..</p>
<p>If all goes well by what Age I would officially call myself a PLASTIC SURGEON..</p>
<p>Residency is training after medical school.</p>
<p>If you are 23 now, then you would be 27 after medical school. The typical route is 5 years of general surgery residency first. You would be 32 then. Next is the 2 year fellowship in plastic surgery. You would now be 34.</p>
<p>There are some integrated plastics program out there now (you do not enter into gen surgery for this and go straight into a plastic program...this is without a doubt the hardest residency to obtain straight from med school)</p>
<p>hi am am 16 and a sophomore in high school, i would like to became a plastic surgeon in the future and would like to know if there is anything that i can do already that will help me achieve my goal and better my chances of getting into the right schools.</p>