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Specialties and steps up

• Cardiac, transplant or trauma teams

  Harder cases, longer hours, better pay and far more responsibility.

• Surgical first assistant

  Additional training that lets you assist the surgeon directly rather than passing instruments. A real pay jump.

• Robotic surgery

  Setting up and managing robotic systems is its own skill and hospitals train for it.

• Central sterile processing lead

  Running the department that sterilizes everything, with more regular hours.