Other careers

This section gives information on careers outside the clinical career structure in hospital or the community. Some attract doctors with particular skills or interests who may or may not want to do any clinical work at all while others are clinical posts that can be entertained once qualified in a specialty and when a specific expertise or interest is pursued.

This list may entice you on through your clinical training with a view to fitting your medical career with other interests or it may help stimulate your thoughts if a clinical career is not for you.

• Aeromedical transport
• Aviation medicine
• Anatomy demonstrating - experiences
• BMA representative
• Epidemiology
• Expedition medicine
• Event medicine (sports, music, etc)
• Forensic pathology
• Humanitarian assistance - charity work
• Laboratory research
• Combining medicine and law
• Media and broadcasting doctor 1 - 2  
• Medical education
• Medical ethics 1 - 2
• Medical informatics
• Medical politics
• Overseas work
• Police surgeon - requirements
• Prison service doctor
• Public health medicine 1- 2 - 3 - PHLS - WHO
• Research and development lead
• Services medical officer - RAF
• Ship's doctor
• Space medicine 1 - 2
• Studying for an MBA
• Working with refugees and asylum seekers
• Writing