FAQs

What is medicine? Where will I work?

Being a doctor: the basics

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How do I get a job in medicine?

First steps for medics after graduation.

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What skills do I need to be a good doctor?

The essential abilities for becoming a doctor.

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What specialties are there?

The lowdown on areas of work.

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What is the foundation programme?

Essential info about your training.

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How do medical graduates get a foundation programme place?

How to get a place on the foundation programme and start training.

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How easy is it to get a foundation programme place?

Your chances of getting the rotations of your choice.

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What is a shortage specialty?

Find out which areas are short of doctors.

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What is Modernising Medical Careers?

How MMC will affect your training

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What's the typical work environment?

Where you'll spend your working life.

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What other healthcare professionals will I work with?

The people you'll see every day.

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How much will I earn? What benefits will I get?

The rewards for being a doctor.

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What are the highs and lows?

What's hot and what's not in the medical profession.

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What kind of work/life balance will I have?

It's not true that doctors have no life!

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What is flexible working?

Ways to make sure you have a life.

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