Generally, you must include in gross income everything you receive in payment for personal services. In addition to wages, salaries, commissions, fees, and tips, this includes other forms of compensation such as fringe benefits and stock options.
Internship comprises six months of medicine and six months of surgery. A minimum of two months and a maximum of three months may be spent in a sub-speciality, including emergency medicine, general practice, obstetrics & gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry, anaesthesia and radiology.
Surgical physician assistants usually work in hospitals on a full-time basis. Their schedules often include long, irregular hours that may surpass 40 hours a week. The job requires assistants to spend most of their working time on their feet, sometimes standing in one place for hours at a time in surgery.