Also called: Undersea Medicine Doctor
Doctor who treats divers with the bends and uses pressure chambers to heal wounds and poisonings.
A hyperbaric physician supervises patients inside pressure chambers, treats divers with decompression sickness, and handles carbon monoxide poisoning and stubborn wounds. Some work with Navy divers and astronauts.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 12 years after high school. Medical school, residency (often emergency medicine), plus undersea and hyperbaric medicine fellowship.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school, Graduate school, Military. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Pre-Medicine, Physiology.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI drafts notes and flags risks; treating bent divers and supervising chamber patients stay with the doctor.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1229.
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