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Surgery is described as a challenging, varied and rewarding career combining intellectual challenges with hands-on treatment. Surgeons undertake ward rounds, elective and emergency operations, outpatient clinics, administration, teaching and other supporting work, and research. Surgical specialties include general surgery, cardiothoracics, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, paediatrics, plastic surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, urology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and vascular surgery. Becoming a surgeon requires a medical degree, foundation training, core surgical training, specialty training and a senior medical appointment. The career is open to people with the determination, enthusiasm and aptitude to succeed, regardless of background, ethnicity or gender.