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Asked by Nova to Christie, Dan, David, Dawn, Sian on 15 Jun 2016.
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Dawn Lau answered on 15 Jun 2016:
You can work in a hospital, or in a GP clinic, depending on what you specialise in. You could specialise in surgery, or in non-surgical specialties such as anaesthetics or emergency medicine. If you don’t want to work as a clinical doctor, there are other options you could look at such as working at a university or a pharmaceutical company helping to run clinical trials. There are also doctors who carry out research into diseases, so you can do a bit of science too.
Here is a list of jobs you could do with a medicine degree: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/medicine
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Sian Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2016:
Dawn is great at this.
Just to add, yesterday I met an ex-GP who set up a tech company to develop wellness monitoring devices. He was a great guy with a really interesting career which built on his medical expertise.
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Christie Waddington answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Many! It depends what you want to do. As a doctor you still have to do the foundation stages (F1 etc) but you can then branch out and specialise. We have a number of medical students who take a research masters with the aim of doing medical research once they are fully qualified. The head of my department is a doctor who also worked as a researcher and has now supervised 40 PhD students, and this year is being knighted! (Professor Doug Turnbull).
If you don’t want to be a consultant in a hospital setting, then there are GP surgeries, private practices, or you can change career completely. One of my friends studied medicine, and then retrained as a lawyer. Check out Dawn’s link for any more ideas :-).
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