<p>I'm going to be a heart surgeon and I need a couple partners.</p>
<p>haha, I'm looking into CT Surgery as well, but I think you'll have time to find partners. lol.</p>
<p>True, but it still could happen.</p>
<p>first you gotta get to med school, a hard task. Then graduate med school. Then get a gen. surg. residency (5years) then a cardiothoracic fellowship (2-4 years) then additional training. Then join a practice. Only after you are well established can you think of finding your own partner.</p>
<p>I'm doing heart transplant, not CT.</p>
<p>um you still need ct training. before you take up anything heart related look up the time for training, and not the money. You need to be a trained gen. surgeon first, then a trained cardiothoracic surg. if your lucky enough to get into that, and then if your really lucky and do really well in ct training you can think about specializing in heart surgery and then specialize in transplants. </p>
<p>*Btw i am also interested in becoming a CT transplant surgeon. so i figure i may give peoples a heads up of the odds their against.</p>
<p>Cool dude. Yeah I know it's a long road. I was also considering neurosurgeon and it's 14 years for that.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.aap.org/sections/congheart/whatisapedheartsurgeon.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.aap.org/sections/congheart/whatisapedheartsurgeon.htm</a> heres a good resource even though its pediatric ct its about the same thing for adult ct. And CT is very close to being 14 years if not more depending on how specialized you want to become.</p>
<p>Thanks dude.</p>
<p>hello?...........</p>
<p>texasmathwhix: what made you go into Cardiothoracic surgery?</p>
<p>I too have the goal of cardiothoracic surgery, but at this point i think its bleak: I'm going to U of Rochester next year and did not get into/apply to many BS/MD programs. I feel that I have a good chance if i do well, but am scared because achieving a 3.6 will be SOOO HARD!!!! </p>
<p>none-the-less, if i succeed i'll come back here and look for you :P</p>
<p>I wanted to have some action as a doctor, not just diagnosing athlete's foot. Also a science teacher I had, had us dissect lamb hearts and she brought in her husband who was a Heart Transplant surgeon from UCLA. Years later I went to visit her and she said her husband had been talking about me the other day, that he remembered me and said "I hope that kid is considering becoming a doctor because we could use someone with that kind of memory and focus."</p>
<p>So medicine was the first thing I realized I would be good at, so I looked into the career and found out it pays an average of $380K per year and it's a good cause, and it's science which I have a passion for.</p>
<p><----Prospestive Cosmetic Surgeon from UTHSCSA School of Medicine</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>UTHSCSA? What the heck that's a long acronym.</p>
<p>Seeing as how you're from Texas you should know it though. I think it stands for University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio School of Medicine.</p>
<p>Correction, I'm not from Texas. I moved here about 7 months ago. thanks for asking before criticizing me.</p>
<p>I didn't mean to sound harsh, but a simple google search can do the job pretty well most of the time to find an answer. </p>
<p>P.S. I'm from Michigan and have never been to Texas, so like I said try the google.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know I could have got it on google, didn't care that much though. I'm going to Baylor Med School hopefully so I couldn't care less about San Antonio, I've never considered it.</p>
<p>If you're sincere about becoming, you better start making connections on as many med schools as possible no matter where they are; a doctor is a doctor regardless on where they got their MD. I'll be ever so grateful if I get into a med school, but I know I have a very good chance, based on things that I have seen so far.</p>
<p>Well my parents have many close friends that are doctors and they have all said without me asking that I'd be a great doctor.</p>
<p>If what they say really means anything, then I've got good luck. I'm also extremely strong in math and science, and not far behind in communication skills and writing.</p>