Women doctor - Salary and Career
Doctors in surgical specialties

Women 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 Women doctor earn

A Women doctor earns between $2.582 and $13.982 per month, with an average monthly salary of $6.191 and a median salary of $5.473 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 1.274 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Women doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 6.191 74.287 1.548 55
1º Quartile 2.582 30.985 646 23
Median Salary 5.473 65.681 1.368 49
3º Quartile 10.663 127.958 2.666 95
Higher Salary 13.982 167.782 3.495 124


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 Women doctor

Doctors in surgical specialties must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Women doctor the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • health management support activities
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • general public administration
    • outpatient care activities
    • outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
    • support activities for education
    • outpatient medical activity restricted to consultations
    • outpatient medical activity with resources for performing surgical procedures




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