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Do You Have What It Takes To Become A Doctor?

6 Reasons Why A Career In Healthcare Is Always In Demand

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you&&num;8217&semi;re applying straight from sixth form&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s fairly straightforward&colon; you apply to a university of your choice through UCAS and wait for the interview dates to roll in&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll typically be asked for three A’s&comma; in subjects including chemistry&comma; biology and maths&period;  All medical schools are different&comma; and are therefore looking for different characteristics&comma; so don’t worry if you initially get rejected from a few&period; Remember nobody wants an individual whose strengths lie solely in science&comma; try and develop other interests outside of school&comma; including volunteering&comma; society clubs&comma; sports and hobbies – they are looking for well-rounded people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you find yourself halfway through sixth form before deciding you want to go into medicine&comma; and find you aren&&num;8217&semi;t taking the right A-levels&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t despair&period; Most universities will take you if you take a third year to take the right subjects&comma; and some universities even offer a pre-medical studies course for exactly that situation&period; However&comma; that course does cost £9K – so perhaps continuing with your A-levels for an extra year is the better &lpar;cheaper&excl;&rpar; option&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Doing medicine as a postgraduate is possible&comma; but you&&num;8217&semi;ll need a high 2&colon;1&colon; this is&comma; however&comma; a good route for someone who studied the right spread of A-levels but didn&&num;8217&semi;t quite get the grades they needed for entry into medical school the first time around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Career Options<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So&comma; having got past these extensive hurdles&comma; and assuming you are into university&comma; the next question might be&comma; where is this medical degree going to take you&quest; There are over 60 clinical specialisms you can choose from&comma; but in terms of career progression there&&num;8217&semi;s thankfully no rush to decide in your first year – or even your fifth year&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Medical students can&comma; however&comma; start to develop their personal interest in a subject specialism in the final two years before graduation through an assessed project and a practical placement called an elective&period; The elective is anywhere between a 6 -12 week period&comma; depending on where you are studying&period; The elective can be used as an opportunity to learn more about yourself and to explore a particular area of medicine&comma; as well as an opportunity to study abroad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>How far can you Take it&quest;<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You could do anything from a short stint as part of your career in your home nation to dedicating your life to working in developing countries&period; There really is no limit to what you can achieve in this line of work&period;  A British medical degree is recognised in most countries across the world&comma; meaning that you can apply for jobs abroad with ease&period; If you do stay in the UK&comma; however&comma; as most doctors who qualify here will&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s important to be realistic&semi; there will always be more need for GPs than for heart surgeons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>The Exams <&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It will take approximately 10 years to train as a GP and 14 years to train as a surgeon&period; The extensive exams are arguably the hardest in the world&comma; testing a wealth of knowledge about the entire human body – one that is constantly changing&period; CliniQuest is a statistical data&comma; regression and item analysis software that is used for practical hands-on medical exams with the examiner filling in the sheet depending on whether a student has performed a task e&period;g&period; performed a blood test&comma; washed hands etc&period; This compliments a wealth of written exams undertaken&comma; and don’t forget you will have to keep your training up even once you’ve qualified&comma; there will always be written&comma; oral and practical exams that you need to take in order to keep qualified with the rapidly changing technology&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">With over a decade of studying&comma; late nights&comma; exams&comma; blood&comma; sweat and tears in order to become fully qualified&comma; you may be questioning if this career choice is still for you&quest; If you have an appetite for a challenge&comma; an exciting and varied role&comma; and life&comma; then it’s time to get signed up for medical school&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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