WHY DO SURGEONS NEED MATH?

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Many different types of surgeons
• Prepares diagnosis and preforms surgeries.
• Helpful skills to have: ability to handle pressure, rationality,patience, and an open mind
• Surgery usually occurs in the hospital setting.
• Surgeons are the most educated and highly paid people in the United States.

EDUCATION REQURIED

• Graduate high school or pass the GED exam.
• Get a bachelor's degree
• Take the MCAT (medical college admission test)
• Complete medical school
• Complete a residency program

EDUCATION CONTINUED

• 6. Get liscenced
• 7. Choose a field of surgery

MATH SKILLS NEEDED

• Calculate how deep and long to make incisions in the patients.
• Calculating the angle in which to drill into the skull
• In some cases, measuring the amount of drugs to give

MATH PROBLEM

• If the maximum dosage for Vicodin is
• to take 1-2 5mg pills every 4-6 hours
• what is the maximum amount the
• patient could take in a week

SOLUTION

• Maximum for 4 hours: 2 pills
• There are six 4 hour periods In a day
• Maximum per day: 12 pills (6x2)
• 7 days in a week
• Maximum per week: 94 pills (7x12)

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