PLASTIC SURGEON
Cash is Paper.... Credit Cards are Plastic , whatever it may be, you sure need some serious money in nay form, if you wanna use the services of a Plastic Surgeon. Hollywood needs them all the time, like Ashlee Simpson and Jessica Simpson recently did for their noses ;-)
Here's are some average plastic surgeon salaries :
And then again, according to Plastic Surgeon - Dr. Caroline A. Glicksman, Plastic Surgeons in California can make upto 4 Million Dollars a year while some others stay put with 200,000 $ a year while paying 50,000$ a year in Malpractice Insurance Premiums. All depends on how busy you wanna get !
How to get into Plastic Surgery ? Let me quote text from the Harvard Program:
"There are two tracks : (1) an independent three-year program open to applicants who have completed at least three years of a general surgery residency or other approved prerequisite residency, and (2) an integrated six-year program open to applicants who have completed medical school. In the six-year program, the first three years will be spent in a general surgery residency with general surgery rotations and rotations specifically relevant to plastic surgery; the final three years will be spent doing a program identical to that of the independent three-year program residents."
Obviously very difficult for IMGs - but there have been a few who made it with proper planning, clinical exposure, knowing the right people and of course - superb surgical skills !
Also Read:
- Look who's stealing from the Plastic Surgeons
NOTE: Salaries here are the 50th Percentile Salaries and may apply to mid-career levels - the lower percentile salaries (for fresh physicians) may actually be lower by 30,000- 40,000 $
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Here's are some average plastic surgeon salaries :
- Houston, TX: $ 299,000/-
- Los Angeles, CA: $ 326,000/-
- Miami, FL: $300,000/-
- New York, NY: $341,000/-
- Seattle, WA: $317,000/-
National Average Salary: $298,000/-
And then again, according to Plastic Surgeon - Dr. Caroline A. Glicksman, Plastic Surgeons in California can make upto 4 Million Dollars a year while some others stay put with 200,000 $ a year while paying 50,000$ a year in Malpractice Insurance Premiums. All depends on how busy you wanna get !
How to get into Plastic Surgery ? Let me quote text from the Harvard Program:
"There are two tracks : (1) an independent three-year program open to applicants who have completed at least three years of a general surgery residency or other approved prerequisite residency, and (2) an integrated six-year program open to applicants who have completed medical school. In the six-year program, the first three years will be spent in a general surgery residency with general surgery rotations and rotations specifically relevant to plastic surgery; the final three years will be spent doing a program identical to that of the independent three-year program residents."
Obviously very difficult for IMGs - but there have been a few who made it with proper planning, clinical exposure, knowing the right people and of course - superb surgical skills !
Also Read:
- Look who's stealing from the Plastic Surgeons
NOTE: Salaries here are the 50th Percentile Salaries and may apply to mid-career levels - the lower percentile salaries (for fresh physicians) may actually be lower by 30,000- 40,000 $
Search Keywords to this blog article:
- "plastic surgeon salaries"
- "How much to plastic surgeons make ?"
- "yearly salary of a cosmetic surgeon"
- "reconstructive surgery income"
- "plastic surgeon yearly pay"
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posted by Digitaldoc, MD at 5:56 PM
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Post Your Comment !hi digi
r these salaries before or after tax?
u know taxes increase as ur income increase
so if these salaries before tax i think there will not be great difference between internist and anaesthetist!!!
Most salaries mentioned here are pre-tax figures. So in comparing anesthetists and internists - BOTH will see reductions after applying taxes, still keeping the take-home earning figures pretty different
what are the odds of becoming a successful plastic surgeon?
The odds...not very good. Plastics is the most competitive field in medicine to get into. Forget how difficult it is to get into medical school, you need to be #1 in med school to get into an integrated program. If you go the classical route, no program accepts only 3 year of gen surg anymore. You have to do at least 5 yrs. The match in plastics for the classic route is around 35%. That means after 5 yrs of general and research, good letters, awards, etc. you still only have a 35% chance of getting a spot.
Plastics the most competitive? I don't think so. It's just a popular choice for lifestyle reasons, because everyone wants to do cosmetics and think they'll be Dr. 90210. Therefore, lots of people who have no business applying for plastics end up applying, thus increasing the number of applicants--many of whom are just not qualified.
The most competitive applicants are, by a strong margin, neurosurgery candidates. In addition, orthopedic surgeons, ENTs, some maxillofacial surgeons, and neurosurgeons are all qualified to do cosmetics fellowships, which a plastic surgeon also has to complete to do cosmetics (which is why they go into it in the first place).
What's your source Mr. Anonymous? Look at the new NRMP data. Dermatology and Plastic Surgery remain the most competitive field in medicine.
you should really not look at blogs but talk to those mathcing right now. The most competitive residency fields are actually Urology and Dermatology because of lifestyle, pay, and # of slots to residents. The most competitive medicine specialties are by far Cardilogy and GI...and among those interventional cardioloy is tough to get into.
The up and comings...ER (450,000+ pay now in Texas) and Radiology. These have < 40 hours per week pay upwards of 300,000. Radiology may be able to work at home in the next 10 years via internet home reading rooms. ER has 36 hours per week only..so they can moonlight and make gobs of money.
This is the same with Medicine now. A shift towards moonlighting (shift pay pickups) and hospitalists (week off, week on in a hospital with moonlighting in between).
How come they earn so little? I mean... a plastic surgery costs around 5,000$ and a surgeon expects to have about 3 patients/day, which would make 105,000$ a week and that gives 420,000$ a month, right, so shouldn't they earn a bit more than 250,000$ annually? :S
Derm, Radiation Oncology, Plastics, Urology, ENT, and OPTHO. are among the most competitive ones according to the NRMP, and applicants. They all are competitive due to the number of spots.
ya 3 patients a day perhaps, not all 5,000 surgeries though, most are follow-ups and check-ups. 3 surgeries a day would be epic!!!
I've always wanted to be a surgeon. I'm currently only 18 years old and i am in my first year of college. Got a long way to go...
Not to mention, cost of operation... cost of all medical equipment, staff, nurses... etc
Plus the money that goes to the surgery such as the 5,000$ wouldn't go straight to a doctor you have to pay nurses insurance electricity x-rays machinery tools. You have sooo much money there! Plus the surgeries take a super looong time and no one sees three patients needing surgery A DAY i mean my dad sees about 60-80 but he doesn't do surgery on all of them only on Fridays and Wednesdays!