Najah+Joyner+Career+Profile

[|Tasks]:
 * Doctors diagnose illnesses, and prescribe people suffering from disease**. Also doctors can **save a persons life with surgery** and medication. Also surgeons **specialize in injury and disease**. Orthopedic surgeons **repair bones and tissue after injury**. Doctors also **make people healthier and examine people**.

[|Level of education required]: Orthopedic surgeons are **required four years of undergraduate school,** f**our years of medical school**, and **three to eight years of** **internship**. The highest level of education is to **attend medical school**. A **medical and bachelors degree license is required**. Surgeons will always **need a Phd to work**.

[|Salary:] The average **entry level salary is $186,044 per year**. The average **peak salary is $339,733 per yea**r. Some of the benefits that surgeons get is **medical and prescibtion insurance, vacation benefits, health benefits,sick days, and medical plans**.

[|Future Prospects:]Employment is expected to grow much faster. It is **expected to grow 22%.** About **661,400 jobs were held in 2008**. The reason so many people **held the job was because people will always need a doctor**. That means that the **chance of being a doctor is high** **because of medical conditions and injury**. They **expect job opertunities to do good for doctors even in low income** areas because they have fewer doctors.

[|Average hours spent on the job:]Doctors **spend long irregular hours at work in the hospital**. Most doctors work **60 hours a week**. But **doctors that work in offices have more time off**. Some doctors get **called into work at any time of day** when there is an emergency. The doctors have to **work Monday through Fridays and on weekends**.

[|High school:] Doctors have to finish all **four years of college to become a medical doctor**. In high school you can **join internships and work along side a** **doctor**. You also need a bachelors degree. Many other doctors have advanced degrees.

[|College or other trainig:] It takes a **least eleven years to become a doctor**. It is **four years of college after high school**. **Four years of medical school and three years woking in a hospital. And four years of high school.**