If you are Neonatal surgeon would you also have to be an OB/GYN?

Question

If you are Neonatal surgeon would you also have to be an OB/GYN?

Answer 1

No.  They are two separate specialties.  OB/GYNs treat the mothers--they don't operate on infants (with one striking exception--it's usually OB/GYNs who perform circumcisions in hospitals).

Once the baby is born, it is handed off to a pediatric specialist--a regular pediatrician if there isn't any problem, or a neonatologist or a pediatric surgeon if necessary.

Answer 2

Generally, the surgeon who operates on newborns is a pediatric surgeon, one who trained in general, then in pediatric surgery.

If you are talking about fetal surgery, that is something different. I think that a Dr. Harrison in California was the first to attempt this. I think he was trained in OB/Gyn, but I am not sure; don't know his first name, so I can't check. Fetal surgery in our region is performed by pediatric surgeons with additional training. Obviously it is reserved for very serious intrauterine conditions.

Edit: It was Dr. Michael Harrison, and he trained as a pediatric surgeon.

Answer 3

Pediatric Surgeons are surgical subspecialists and are not trained in OB/Gyn, therefore they are entirely different in the work they do.