Requirements to become a Surgeon?

Question

i heard that in order to become a surgeon you need good eyesight and hands that don't shake. is that true? i mean everyone's hand shake.

Answer 1

The requirements to becoming a surgeon include:

graduating medical school
passing the four (was three) steps of US Medical Licensing Exams (USMLE)
be eligible for licensure in the state you intend to practice
be accepted into a surgical residency
be prepared to work your *** off for 5 years (or more) of residency
pass both the oral and written exams to achieve "board certification"
fulfill the requirements of any fellowship that you choose
be hired as an attending surgeon
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Surgery is 5 years of very hard work on top of the four years of hard work in medical school. The work week for surgeons often exceeds 80 hours (but officially you can only work 80 hr in residency). Be prepared, you will be on call for the rest of your working career. You will be called for all sorts of emergencies. You need a level head and an objective mind. You need a cast iron bladder and stomach.

You can not be legally blind, but you eyesight does not need to be perfect. If you perform microsurgery or vascular surgery, you will buy a special pair of glasses called loupe's that act in a similar fashion to a jeweler’s loupe (but you will have one for each eye).

You can have a hand tremor, but you must be able to compensate for it. As an example one surgeon had horrendous shaking in his hands, but when he went to throw a stitch or cut tissue, the tremor disappeared. Despite this, he was still a top notch surgeon. Hand eye coordination is probably more important, especially now that laparoscopic surgery is pervasive. Oh, yeah, you'll need to have both of your hands and they must function.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Every one's hands shake but some shake much more! And then think of yourself on the operating table with a surgeon whose hands are shaking so badly that he can't hold a scalpel or will miss the target to be cut by a few mm.

Good eye sight, steady hands and not being queasy (when you open up a body, it is not a pretty sight), for some types of surgery fairly good strength (to cut and drill through bone), ability to stand and bend over the bodies on the operating table for long hours and long attention spans.

In my view, the above are the minimum qualities for a good surgeon.

Answer 4

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Requirements to become a Surgeon?
i heard that in order to become a surgeon you need good eyesight and hands that don't shake. is that true? i mean everyone's hand shake.

Answer 5

Not everyone's hands shake.

It is true that you need to have steady hands. As for eyesight, as long as you have good vision with correction (glasses), then that is usually good enough.

If your hands shake, it could be that you are having too much caffeine. My dad doesn't drink any caffeine for at least 24 hours before he knows that he is going to do surgery (eye surgeon - more important than some other surgeries because of the microscopic nature of the surgeries).

He can't make this choice for emergencies sometimes though.

Answer 6

I personally don't believe that you need good eyesite, I mean, if you need glasses, then wear them. As for the hands thing, I'm sure that normal hand shakes are okay, but I don't think I could be a surgeon becuase I have problems with my hand.

Answer 7

It's true. There is an essential tremor. The key is you solid control of your hands and need to know how to make the slight tremor not impact what you are trying to do.

Answer 8

You are right along with that, you should be merciless for cutting & throwing what you don't like