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Career Options
Medical graduates can expect a fairly
secure career as doctors are always
in demand. Plus, they reap signi?cant
?nancial rewards. However, there is a large
amount of variation in salaries, depending
on the ?eld of medicine you choose to
specialise in. Being a general practitioner
is the common path taken by most, but a
neurologist or plastic surgeon earns more.
Although the majority of medical degree
graduates become practicing physicians,
there is a huge range of possible
specialisations you can choose. Most
medicine graduates make use of their
degree one way or another during their
career, considering the amount of years
they have spent studying.
While some go for hands-on challenges
of clinical practice, working in hospitals,
their own private practice or other health
organisations, others choose to go into
medical research, using their expertise
to contribute to the understanding
of diseases and development of new
diagnostic techniques and treatments.
This could also mean that they are
researching the causes of different
illnesses, examining the effectiveness of
new drugs, or working of developing
new medical technologies such as
those involved in arti?cial limbs, fertility
treatments and gene therapy.
General practice is what we often hear of
and graduates can choose to specialise
in ?elds such as anaesthesia, cardiology,
emergency medicine, neurology, obstetrics
and gynaecology, ophthalmology,
palliative care, psychiatry and surgery.

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