Career options within and outside of medicine with a medicine degree

[smile88egc]

Lol, god forbid anyone should study medicine because they find it interesting! im sure even if i didn't want to be a doctor for a living i'd still do the degree!!
After I graduate I want to be a property tycoon as well as open a cafe that sells primarily cupcakes, maybe some GP on the side

[Singh.Simran]

You lot do realise while vocational and academic medicine are veyr much linked, it's not a direct progression?

let alone changing minds and wanting to do something else, it's perfectly reasonable that even before applying the full idea was to do the course for say:

1. research (in academic/pharma/whatever)
2. professional acadaemia
3. to go do dentistry and be a maxfax and whoever else needs both
4. to go do LLB and do medico-legal work
5. others as discussed

I would agree that doing 3, or 5 years, then leaving callously to work in the city with a well regarded degree is both ethically and logically unsound, but it's not like we could ignore the possibly of minds changing later - even if the mind is certain now.

So over and above the choices still using medicine, we can't just rubbish those choices not uses the degree to it's potential.

[giella]

Going into the armed forces is always a career move worth considering. As a doctor, you can rise through the ranks quickly, learn loads of new skills and get a lifetime's worth of experience. You don't necessarily have to stick with medicine once you're in.
That and all the other stuff I said earlier.

[Singh.Simran]

That too.


At a very long pinch.

[Gizmo says -]

i fink you wuld mek a good warrant officer, macca.