One of the most arduous vocational careers to pursue is that of a doctor’s surgeon, and there are always a steady flow of medical students choosing this particular pathway.

Throughout the last few years, more and more specialisms within the surgical pathway, and some of them are becoming more and more in demand every single year.

With that in mind, continue reading to learn six of the most in-demand surgical specialisms for 2022.

Neurological Surgery

Neurological surgery, more colloquially referred to as brain surgery, generally addresses conditions such as head injuries, brain tumors, and spinal disorders and also directly deal with medical emergencies involving the brain, such as spinal cord compression and bleeding.

Subspecialties of neurological surgery include spinal surgery, seizure disorders, spinal canal stenosis, and pediatric neurosurgery.

Vascular Surgery

A vascular surgeon is specifically and only trained to deal with diseases of the cardiovascular system and performs operations on the heart and associated elements such as arteries and veins.

Vascular surgery can involve surgical reconstruction, medical therapy, and minimally or more detailed invasive surgical procedures.

Rectal & Colon Surgery

Doctors that train to be surgeons specializing in rectal and colon operations treat the entirety of the various disorders and diseases associated with the small bowel, the colon, the anus, the rectum, and the appendix.

To become a surgeon who specializes in rectal and colon surgery, after the standard four-year medical program, it is then necessary to complete a general surgery residency program that usually consists of five to six years of training, then further program specifically to do with rectal and colon surgery which usually takes two years from start to finish.

Eye Surgery

Eye doctors are the more colloquial name for the clinical term ophthalmologist, and such professionals work exclusively with the eyes.

Cataract surgeons often perform between eight and fifteen cataract surgeries every single day and have an extremely high success rate in terms of little to no side effects or problems after the operations for patients. Cataract surgery takes only thirty minutes to complete.

Plastic Surgery

Contrary to popular belief, plastic surgery is certainly by no means reserved for people who want to change a part of their face or body for aesthetic reasons only.

Moreover, more patients opt to have plastic surgery, or indeed need plastic surgery, for issues and problems such as the rectifying of any deformities caused during birth or rather from the result of an accident, skin grafts resulting from burns, or bites, and reconstructive surgery after breast cancer.

Critical Care Surgery

Surgical critical care surgery is solely concerned with potentially life-threatening or, indeed, life-threatening conditions that require immediate surgery.

Both critical care nurses and critical care doctors and surgeons work in highly-stressful and hectic situations, and to enter such a career, you need both strong academic skills and attributes and also personality traits such as critical thinking and the ability to thrive and perform under pressure.