1. General Surgeon Molly Myers

2. Table of Contents • Career Description • Similar Careers • Is This For Me • Skills You Need • What to Learn • Money • Employment Outlook • Earnings Chart • Connections • Career Site • Likes and Dislikes • Images

3. Career Description • Manages and treats common health problems • Directs and coordinates medical staff • Operates on patients to treat injury • Prescribes medication or medical care

4. Is This for Me • Investigative personalities fit this career • I have an investigative personality • Enterprising personalities fit this career • I have an enterprising personality • Achievement work values fit this career • I have an achievement work value

5. Similar Careers • Chiropractor • Examines and adjust spinal column • Veterinarian • Treats medical problems in animals • Dentist • Treats teeth problems and mouth tissue

6. Skills You Need • High reading comprehension • High active listening • Medium writing level • Medium speaking level • Medium mathematics level • Medium science level • High critical thinking skills • High active learning skills • Medium learning strategies level • Medium monitoring skills

7. What to Learn • Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical studies • Anatomy • Chemistry • Math • Biology • Medical School (MD) • Prescription drug types, guidelines, interactions • Diagnostic procedures • Diagnostic tool training • Surgical techniques/procedures

8. Money • Colorado Earnings • Average annual wage:$201,310 • Entry annual wage: $121,630 • Average hourly wage: $96.78 • Entry hourly wage: $58.48

9. Employment Outlook • Outlook: Stable • Annual growth rate estimate 14% • Job Openings • 18 estimated annual job openings • Employment • 555 were employed this year in Colorado

10. Earnings Chart

11. Connections • American Medical Association • Information about Medical Careers and Education • Society of General Internist Medicine • Information about general internal practices • United States Department of Labor • Information about wages, work conditions, etc. • My Future • Information about growing careers • ONET Career Exploration • Information about occupations for job seekers

12. Career Site • United States Department of Labor Help save lives, become a surgeon! • Treat injury and disease through operation • Counsel patients on healthcare • Examine patients • Perform and interpret diagnostic tests

13. Likes and Dislikes • Making the amount of money • Helping people • Doing the work • Working long, irregular hours • Going to all the required school Likes Dislikes

14. Images Common surgical tools Typical surgeon scrubs Surgeons at work Surgical Room