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Working Conditions:** Surgeons usually work in well-lighted, sterile environments while performing surgery and often stand for long periods. Most work is in hospitals or in surgical outpatient centers. Many surgeons work long, irregular hours. Over one-third of full-time surgeons worked 60 hours or more a week in 2006. Only 8 percent of all surgeons worked part-time, compared with 15 percent for all occupations. Surgeons must travel frequently between office and hospital to care for their patients. While on call, a physician will deal with many patients’ concerns over the phone and make emergency visits to hospitals or nursing homes.
 * Job Description:** The General Surgery Program's primary goal is to prepare residents to function as independent and highly qualified practitioners of surgery.The program is enhanced by areas of concentration, including trauma/critical care, surgical oncology, colon and rectal surgery, vascular surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, hepatobiliary surgery and both basic and advanced laparoscopic surgery. Surgical residents see patients in the surgical ambulatory care area and in faculty surgeons' private offices.
 * Personality Characters:** A surgeon needs to be personable so they can understand what exactly their patient needs and they also need to be able to make confident conditions in a short amount of time. When a surgeon is in the middle of surgery and something goes wrong they need to be able to correct the problem quickly or it could mean death for the patient. A surgeon also needs to be good with their hands. It is not possible to be a surgeon if you don't have steady hands. A surgeon has to be able to make steady cuts on people and they can’t make a mistake. **


 * Places of Employment:** A surgeon can be self employed, work in offices of physicians, and be employed by hospitals. About 15 percent of surgeons were self employed in 2006. About half worked in offices of physicians. Also, the other 18 percent were the ones who were employed by the hospital. Others practiced in Federal, State and local governments, including colleges, universities, and professional schools. To find a surgical job locally you could either start your own practice or work at any of the local hospitals.
 * Job Outlook:** Employment of physicians and surgeons is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations. Job opportunities should be very good, especially for surgeons willing to practice in specialties—including family practice and internal medicine—or in rural and low-income areas where there is a perceived shortage of medical practitioners.


 * Salary Information:** Overall, General Surgeon's salaries are based on years of experience, geographic location, public demand, the type of facility and required schedule. The current median expected salary for a General Surgeon in the United States is $250,086. The Allied Physicians Salary Survey revealed a difference in salary for general surgeons by years of experience as follows:
 * 1-2 Years – $226,000
 * 3 or More – $291,000
 * Maximum - $520,000


 * Recommended Education and Training:** Formal education and training requirements for physicians are among the most demanding of any occupation—4 years of undergraduate school, 4 years of medical school, and 3 to 8 years of internship and residency, depending on the specialty selected. A few medical schools offer combined undergraduate and medical school programs that last 6 years rather than the customary 8 years.

__U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics__ [] "Surgeon Careers: Jobs as a Surgeon and Overview of Surgeons' Careers." __Health Careers__. 06 Apr. 2009 []
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