Working in the medical field is known to accumulate 6 digits of a salary every year due to its high demand and it mainly focuses on providing a person’s necessity which is improving one’s health and treating a person’s condition, disease, or illness.
To be specific, professionals who work in the surgical field or also known as surgeons are the professionals in the medical field who accumulate a huge amount of salary due to how high in demand their profession or expertise is.
Life is simply unexpected and no one knows what will happen to them at any moment. This is why a surgeon’s responsibility pays off a huge amount of money. Hospitals might not expect a horde of patients from a big road accident every single day but there could be some patients in a critical condition that needs the expertise and skills of a surgeon to be able to live or finally get back from their condition, disease, or illness.
Before becoming a surgeon, a medical student must undergo a long process or years of training in medical school due to this job having so much to train for especially if the medical student decided to have tough expertise which is one of them is neurology and cardiology, two studies which focuses on the brain or the nervous system of a person and the other one is about the heart or the circulatory system of a person, which the two are one of the hardest surgeries to perform due to them having the body’s most sensitive, delicate, and important organs.
Before a medical student becomes a surgeon, they have to undergo 4 years of undergraduate studies with any medical course of their choice to get a bachelor’s degree before proceeding to train in their chosen specialty in a training hospital. The number of years of every specialty varies differently. Some specialties could go up to 5 years only while others could take around 7 years due to how vast or loaded that kind of specialty is.
Are Resident Doctors or Doctors in Training Earning Money?
First of all, what does it mean by a doctor in training or a resident doctor? Well, they are still trainees for the medical field and who are pursuing a license according to the kind of specialty they have been pursuing.
They are responsible for facilitating patients inside the hospital, guiding them about their treatments or what is going to happen to them, they also provide emotional support for patients to make them feel at ease inside the intimidating atmosphere of a hospital, and they also help support their seniors in some activities or tasks inside the hospital such as submitting a sample to a laboratory as requested by their seniors.
Another question comes to mind, do doctors in training or resident doctors provide medical practice towards patients? Besides providing the basic needs of a patient inside a medical establishment, doctors in training can actually be the ones to assist the patients with their sole purpose for visitation in the hospital. For a clear example, a resident surgeon can join a surgical team and could help assist in the surgery of a patient but with the guidance of their superior or senior surgeon. Their roles inside an operating room are to stitch up the patients, perhaps pass the tools or machines to the senior surgeon, but if the senior surgeon trusts them enough since they are competent and efficient, a senior surgeon could also assign the surgeon in training a huge part in the surgery.
But to those doctors in training, are they really getting paid in the practices they do during their years as a resident? Well, the answer is, yes. So basically, this is the point where surgeons get paid in their jobs even if they are still in training. Their salary is not as high as a licensed surgeon, yet but they still make a hefty amount of money for someone who is still in training.
Although in all honesty, making money as a resident doctor is extremely hard for them due to the competition that takes place within the workplace premises. There are also some instances wherein doctors in training or resident doctors face something negative within the medical establishment such as workplace discrimination. This usually happens for the sake of a little initiation and these are done by their seniors. They could do really much since they are their senior and the only best way to deal with it is to constantly improve their performance as a doctor in training or resident doctors in order to gain their senior’s respect. Although in some fortunate situations, there are seniors who will always be encouraging and would treat their juniors with respect.
According to research, in Australia, a surgeon or doctor in training or still undergoing residency in a training hospital, earn about $60,000 Australian dollars with an hourly rate of $50 which is considered pretty high already for a medical professional in training.
But of course, once a resident doctor finishes their training after so many years or most likely a decade of studying, they can finally become licensed medical practitioners of surgery and their salary will get higher as they continuously work as a surgeon.
Surgeons are said to earn about $600,000 Australian dollars per year and it comes sometimes goes way beyond that depending on their expertise and how excellent they are as surgical professionals.
Some surgeons can also make millions of dollars especially if they are specializing in operating on the nervous system which is a really sensitive system of a person’s body and one of the systems which are highly exposed to so many life-threatening risks since the nervous system is the central intelligence of the body. One wrong move in operating on it will cost someone’s life and all of the systems of the body gradually shutting down due to the damage of what controls them.
Indeed, surgeons deserve their high salaries. With their skills, they can save lives and improve their patients’ wellbeing.
Sources:
https://www.ccjobs.com.au/blog/doctor-life-in-australia-salaries-lifestyle-and-learning/
