Also called: Vascular & Endovascular Surgeon
Repairs arteries and veins, from bulging aortas to blocked leg arteries.
Threads a wire from the groin all the way up to a ballooning aorta and deploys a stent graft while watching live X-ray, then restores blood flow to a diabetic patient's foot to save it from amputation.
BLS top-codes physician pay; estimate for attending physicians after residency/fellowship.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 13 years after high school. Bachelor's, medical school, then a 5-year integrated vascular surgery residency (or general surgery plus fellowship).
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry.
Growing about average. Tracks physicians and surgeons overall (about 3% over 10 years); shortages in many regions.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps read vessel scans and plan stent sizes; threading wires and open repairs stay in the surgeon's hands.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Physics, Anatomy & physiology, AP Chemistry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1249.
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