Published 30 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2637
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2637

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US neurosurgeons earn nearly $0.5m in their first year

Janice Hopkins Tanne

1 New York

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Neurological surgeons in the United States who have just completed their training in residencies or fellowships earn more than any other newly qualified doctors in their first year, a survey of doctors’ recruiters has found.

In 2008 neurological surgeons earnt a median salary of $445 000 (£270 000; {euro}320 000) in their first year after completing their residency or fellowship, the highest of any US specialty. The median salary in the first year for all neurological surgeons joining a new practice (presumably including more experienced surgeons) was $605 000.

Other specialties paying high salaries in the first year after a residency or fellowship were invasive cardiology (median of $300 000), invasive and interventional cardiology ($350 000), haematology and oncology ($325 000), maternal and fetal medicine ($300 000), general orthopaedic surgery ($375 000), hip and joint orthopaedic surgery ($306 000), sports medicine orthopaedic surgery ($300 000), diagnostic and interventional radiology ($350 . . . [Full text of this article]


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