Cardiovascular surgeon doctor - Salary and Career
Doctors in surgical specialties

Cardiovascular surgeon doctor - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They perform surgical interventions according to the needs of each patient, implant orthoses and prostheses, transplant organs and tissues, carry out medical consultations and assistance for the treatment of patients, implement disease prevention and health promotion actions, both individual and collective, prepare medical documents , administer health services and disseminate knowledge in the medical field.

How much does an Cardiovascular surgeon doctor earn

A Cardiovascular surgeon doctor earns between $1.319 and $14.111 per month, with an average monthly salary of $4.934 and a median salary of $3.758 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 50 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Cardiovascular surgeon doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 4.934 59.212 1.234 32
1º Quartile 1.319 15.825 330 9
Median Salary 3.758 45.100 940 25
3º Quartile 10.762 129.142 2.690 70
Higher Salary 14.111 169.334 3.528 92


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of biological sciences, health
      • medical professionals
        • doctors in surgical specialties

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Main workplaces

Doctors in surgical specialties the positions of this CBO family develop their activities in the sectors of health, social services, teaching, research and development. They act as self-employed without permanent supervision, can work individually or in teams, carry out activities indoors and at irregular hours. In some situations, they work in uncomfortable positions for long periods and, due to the nature and responsibility of their work, they are subject to stress. In some of the occupations professionals may be subject to the action of toxic, chemical, radioactive and biological materials.


What does it take to work in the field of Doctors in surgical specialties

The occupations are performed by professionals with higher education, accredited by the CFM Conselho Federal de Medicina. The exercise of the function takes place after a period of one to two years of professional experience plus a specialization course or medical residency in the area of expertise.


Functions and activities of Cardiovascular surgeon doctor

Doctors in surgical specialties must:

  • disseminate medical knowledge;
  • difusing medical knowledge;
  • perform medical consultation and assistance;
  • perform medical consultation and care;
  • spreading medical knowledge;
  • treating patient (as a biopsychosocial being);
  • practicing surgical interventions;
  • administering health services;
  • diffusion medical knowledge;
  • perform consultation and medical assistance;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • manage health services;
  • practice surgical interventions;
  • implementing actions for health promotion;
  • treat the patient (as a biopsychosocial being);
  • diffusion of medical knowledge;
  • perform medical consultation and care;
  • implement actions for health promotion;
  • diffuse medical knowledge;
  • elaborate medical documents;
  • treat patient (as a biopsychosocial being);

  • Activities

    • plan patient treatment;
    • participating on boards of associations, professional associations and health councils;
    • participating on boards of associations, class entities and health councils;
    • assist standardization of medical activities;
    • perform instrumental workup;
    • discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, guardians and family members;
    • issue reports;
    • issue opinions;
    • elaborate informative and normative material;
    • demonstrate ability to listen;
    • define surgical team;
    • interpret data from clinical exams and complementary exams;
    • coordinating health programs;
    • disclose information in the media;
    • practicing interventional procedures;
    • establishing medical-hospital committees;
    • request interconsultations;
    • evaluating risks of surgery;
    • perform hospital visits;
    • develop equipment;
    • participate in the boards of associations, professional associations and health councils;
    • demonstrate impartiality of judgment;
    • select patients in specific situations;
    • raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • provide consultancy and advice;
    • demonstrate decision-making ability;
    • demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;
    • assist in the regulation of medical activities;
    • elaborate reports;
    • elaborate medical records;
    • describe medical actions;
    • promoting health campaigns;
    • elaborate standard operating procedures;
    • perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;
    • indicate treatment;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • performing organ and tissue transplants;
    • forwarding organs and tissues;
    • request additional exams;
    • demonstrate empathy;
    • developing procedures;
    • perform treatments with biological agents;
    • select equipment and instruments;
    • elaborate reports;
    • practice clinical interventions;
    • elaborate protocols for medical procedures;
    • demonstrate ability to adapt language;
    • preserving organs and tissues;
    • manage financial resources;
    • establish medical-hospital committees;
    • perform treatments with physical agents;
    • tracking prevalent diseases;
    • evaluate expert knowledge;
    • check equipment and instruments;
    • prepare teaching material;
    • develop research projects;
    • participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;
    • implanting prostheses and orthotics;
    • prescribing hygienic-dietary measures;
    • perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;
    • distribute tasks;
    • establish prognosis;
    • demonstrate time management skills;
    • establishing a health action plan;
    • organizing scientific meetings;
    • demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;
    • prescribe immunization;
    • prescribe medication;
    • dispatch work;
    • select orthoses, prostheses and special materials;
    • coordinating health programs;
    • developing research in medicine;
    • refer patients to other professionals;
    • supervise medical training;
    • attend interconsultations;
    • set up medical-hospital committees;
    • perform anamnesis;
    • perform treatments with chemical agents;
    • perform home visits;
    • prescribe treatment;
    • request hospitalization;
    • request interconsultations;
    • practice interventionist procedures;
    • perform gene therapy;
    • operating equipment and instruments;
    • issue certificates;
    • perform urgent and emergency care;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • monitor the patient's medical evolution;
    • teaching classes;
    • assist the delivery;
    • specify inputs;
    • evaluate therapeutic options;
    • define surgical technique;
    • demonstrate quickness of perception;
    • perform community health diagnosis;
    • treat complications;
    • demonstrate ability to work in a team;
    • implementing biosecurity measures;
    • demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;
    • demonstrate altruism;
    • supervise staff;
    • evaluate the risks of surgery;
    • assist the regulation of medical activities;
    • providing preventive treatments;
    • writing scientific papers;
    • demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;
    • disseminating information in the media;
    • prescribing immunization;
    • issuing certificates;
    • issue declarations;
    • demonstrate medical actions;
    • practice interventional procedures;
    • evaluate medical acts;
    • perform complementary exams;
    • manage urgent and emergency situations;
    • develop procedures;
    • follow the patient's therapeutic plan;
    • issue prescriptions;
    • demonstrate selective attention capacity;
    • perform physical examination;
    • set up service schedule;
    • remove organs and tissues;
    • promoting educational activities;
    • supervise medical acts;
    • forward organs and tissues;
    • select work team;
    • to raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • writing scientific papers;
    • organizing continuing education courses;
    • diagnose the health status of patients;
    • implementing biosafety measures;
    • demonstrate tolerance;
    • fill in compulsory notification forms;


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