Urologist doctor - Salary and Career
Doctors in surgical specialties

Urologist 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 Urologist doctor earn

A Urologist doctor earns between $1.657 and $11.102 per month, with an average monthly salary of $4.502 and a median salary of $3.839 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 120 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Urologist doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 4.502 54.026 1.126 34
1º Quartile 1.657 19.890 414 13
Median Salary 3.839 46.069 960 29
3º Quartile 8.467 101.601 2.117 64
Higher Salary 11.102 133.223 2.775 84


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 Urologist doctor

Doctors in surgical specialties must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Urologist doctor the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • general public administration
    • assisted human reproduction activities
    • health management support activities
    • outpatient medical activity restricted to consultations
    • support activities for education
    • other human health care activities
    • accounting activities
    • outpatient care activities




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