Professor of Medicine

[Pammy]

Your career progression would probably look something like:

Med School - Academic F1/F2 - Clinical Fellowship (during which you can do a PhD if you haven't done one earlier) - Clinical Lecturer - Professor

Sometimes, professorships are advertised too, especially the really important, named ones (but the people who apply to these are mostly already professors...) :-)

[Pammy]

P.S. And unless you convert to being a scientist, you will still do clinical work as a professor of course. Also, your research might be clinical in nature!

[Dr Noodle]

Originally Posted by agneishd

then do a lot of academic work (tis rare for a prof to be a practising surgeon), research, publish, and do lectures

I know at least five who work in the publics and privates though they would only spend one day a week (usually) at the private so probably practising less than they did.

[agneishd]

alright, they do less practising...

[pkonline]

... And if you're extra keen then you can go one further, akin to our very own Professor Sir Lord Darzi! Though you'd have to be very very good indeed and a general whizz!

[agneishd]

Originally Posted by pkonline

... And if you're extra keen then you can go one further, akin to our very own Professor Sir Lord Darzi! Though you'd have to be very very good indeed and a general whizz!

dunno how he did all that... *goes to look up wiki article*

[Dr Noodle]

That guy's CV is ridiculously big.

[agneishd]

hmm yeh i was thinking

puts mine to shame that's for sure

[Hughman]

Darzi became a consultant at 31 - I might not like his policies, but you have to admit he must have been (and still is in fact) a might fine surgeon.

[pkonline]

Apparently he has a whole room full of research papers he's published... literally volumes and volumes!

Something we should all aim and aspire to do !