Living Medicine: Planning a Career: Choosing a Specialty
Realistic yet encouraging, responsible yet wryly humorous, this is the book that all final-year medical students and junior doctors will need in planning their careers. Written by the Dean of a London medical school, who has taken a particular interest in selecting and training medical students, and helping them to prepare for a career in medicine, it brings together essential information on all the specialities, both hospital-based and in the community. Recognising that medicine is an...
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A detailed analysis of professional qualifications and personal attributes required for pursuing various medical practices includes statistics on General Practice entry and other community hospital based practices.
Preface; 1. What becomes of medical students?; 2. Clinical freedom and professional responsibility; 3. The end of the beginning: 'finals' and the preregistration year; 4. Setting the sights: basic training programmes and professional qualifications; 5. Grasping the nettle: final career choices; 6. Time out but well spent: research and work abroad; 7. Clinical practice outside hospital: higher training; 8. Clinical support services; 9. Public health/community medicine and occupational health; 10. Science, industry, the Armed Services, journalism and other careers; 11. The beginning of the end: independent practice; Appendices; References; Index.
