How to become a plastic surgeon

Today, a plastic surgeon is one of the most popular and sought-after professions that many women owe their second youth and fresh flowering appearance. Almost everyone knows about the work of plastic surgeons - but how they come into aesthetic medicine and what they need to do for this is a mystery to most people.

Statistical data

According to statistics, before becoming a plastic surgeon, a doctor must get a higher education at one of fifty specialized Russian universities or at the medical faculty of any state university. The training of specialists is supervised by the Federal Agency for Health Care and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia. Also, the medical educational system provides for the presence of special universities and faculties, where doctors can receive a certain postgraduate education. Future doctors can improve their skills, as well as undergo various internships and courses at large hospitals and research institutes.

In total, there are eight institutions in Russia that specialize in improving the medical qualifications of doctors.

At the beginning of training, a student of a medical faculty or university receives an array of fundamental knowledge for five years, after which his training ends with a diploma. Then, a certified novice doctor needs to get a wide specialty, for which he goes through primary specialization in the form of an internship and residency, which last one and two years, respectively. Only after passing these two specializations does the doctor receive the right to practice independent medical activity in his chosen specialty.