Education
You must graduate with an M._. or _.O.
What is medical school?
The organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
The surgical procedure for irregular heartbeats.
Arrhythmia surgery.
Surgery on the heart.
What is cardiac surgery?
This degree takes 3-4 years and often in chemistry.
What is a bachelors?
The average person takes around 22,000 breathes a day with this organ.
What is the lung?
The surgical procedure that clears the coronary artery.
CABG surgery.
Transplanting one important organ to another person.
What is a heart/lung transplant?
This path is optional.
What is fellowship training?
The largest organ.
What is skin?
Taking a diseased wedge piece from the organ. (Typically the lung)
Wedge resection.
Surgery on the chest area. (Lungs, heart, etc.)
What is thoracic surgery?
You spend 5 years doing this residency before doing another.
What is general surgery residency?
This function by transporting food to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Transplanting one heart from a donor to a receiver, typically because the one they had is diseased.
what is a heart transplant?
Looking after patients post surgery.
What is monitoring patients after surgery?
This residency is 6 years long.
What is integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency?
What is the trachea?
A surgical procedure that repairs a weakened aorta.
What is aorta aneurysm repair?
Fixes heart defects from childhood.
What is congenital thoracic surgery?