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9780521386289

Living Medicine: Planning a Career: Choosing a Speciality

by Peter Richards
  • ISBN13:

    9780521386289

  • ISBN10:

    0521386284

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1990-05-25
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This volume is an effort to prepare medical students for the medical profession--for the reality that qualification is only the beginning of an exciting but difficult career. Career guidance has never been more necessary for medical students and junior doctors, as competition for the more senior posts intensifies and financial and clinical accountability take higher priority. The author considers in detail the professional qualifications and personal attributes required to enter, and survive in, each of the medical specialties. Included are facts and figures relating to entry into General Practice and other community hospital based specialties, and chapters dealing with basic training programs and research, at home and abroad. Minority interests are also addressed, with sections describing career opportunities for doctors in medical administration, science, industry, the armed forces, and journalism. Finally, the author considers the ethical dilemmas and personal stresses, and the opportunities for fulfillment that are inseparable from a medical career. This personal and supportive book, enhanced by the wry and humorous cartoons of David Langdon, is based on many years involvement with the career aspirations of medical students and junior doctors.

Table of Contents

Preface
What becomes of medical students?
Clinical freedom and professional responsibility
The end of the beginning: 'finals' and the preregistration year
Setting the sights: basic training programmes and professional qualifications
Grasping the nettle: final career choices
Time out but well spent: research and work abroad
Clinical practice outside hospital: higher training
Clinical support services
Public health/community medicine and occupational health
Science, industry, the Armed Services, journalism and other careers
The beginning of the end: independent practice
Appendices
References
Index.
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