Healthcare
Doctor (MBBS)
Diagnoses and treats patients, often across a lifetime of care.
About the work
Medicine is a long training path leading to clinical practice, specialisation and responsibility for people's health.
A day in the life
Ward rounds, out-patient consultations, procedures, case discussions, continuing study.
How people get in
NEET, then MBBS, internship and usually a postgraduate specialisation — roughly a decade of study.
Core skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Empathy
- Stamina
- Decision making
- Continuous learning