Also called: Children's Surgeon
Operates on babies, children, and teens, including newborns born with life-threatening defects.
Repairs a newborn's intestines that formed outside the body, removes a 10-year-old's appendix, and treats kids injured in accidents. Instruments are tiny and every movement matters.
Estimate; BLS top-codes physician wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 15 years after high school. Bachelor's, medical school, then general surgery residency plus a 2-year pediatric surgery fellowship.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Chemistry, Pre-Medicine.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI imaging helps plan operations; operating on tiny bodies and comforting families stays human and highly skilled.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Anatomy & physiology, Child development.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1243.
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