Surgical oncologist doctor - Salary and Career
Doctors in surgical specialties

Surgical oncologist 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 Surgical oncologist doctor earn

A Surgical oncologist doctor earns between $1.375 and $14.697 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.088 and a median salary of $3.358 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 12 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Surgical oncologist doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 5.088 61.050 1.272 31
1º Quartile 1.375 16.500 344 8
Median Salary 3.358 40.296 839 20
3º Quartile 11.208 134.500 2.802 68
Higher Salary 14.697 176.361 3.674 89


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 Surgical oncologist doctor

Doctors in surgical specialties must:

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

  • Activities

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


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