Education
Organs
Surgeries
Responsibilities
100

You must graduate with an M._. or _.O.

What is medical school?

100

The organ that pumps blood throughout the body.

What is the heart?

100

The surgical procedure for irregular heartbeats. 

Arrhythmia surgery. 

100

Surgery on the heart.

What is cardiac surgery?

200

This degree takes 3-4 years and often in chemistry.

What is a bachelors?

200

The average person takes around 22,000 breathes a day with this organ.

What is the lung?

200

The surgical procedure that clears the coronary artery.

CABG surgery.

200

Transplanting one important organ to another person.

What is a heart/lung transplant?

300

This path is optional.

What is fellowship training?

300

The largest organ.

What is skin?

300

Taking a diseased wedge piece from the organ. (Typically the lung)

Wedge resection.

300

Surgery on the chest area. (Lungs, heart, etc.)

What is thoracic surgery?

400

You spend 5 years doing this residency before doing another.

What is general surgery residency?

400

This function by transporting food to the stomach.

What is the esophagus?

400

Transplanting one heart from a donor to a receiver, typically because the one they had is diseased.

what is a heart transplant?

400

Looking after patients post surgery.

What is monitoring patients after surgery?

500

This residency is 6 years long.

What is integrated cardiothoracic surgery residency?

500
The organ that is crucial for breathing as the windpipe.

What is the trachea?

500

A surgical procedure that repairs a weakened aorta.

What is aorta aneurysm repair?

500

Fixes heart defects from childhood.

What is congenital thoracic surgery?