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Exploring Medicine as a Career: Insights and Considerations

Delve into the world of medicine with Abdul Nassimizadeh as he shares his journey, reasons for choosing a medical career, university experiences, specialty options, work-life balance, and alternative paths in the medical field. Discover the challenges and rewards of pursuing a career in medicine.

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Exploring Medicine as a Career: Insights and Considerations

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  1. MEDICINEA CAREER FOR YOU? Abdul Nassimizadeh MBChB, BMEDSCI, MRCS (ent)

  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END What we shall cover • Who Am I? • Why Medicine? • Why Not Medicine? • Your University Years? • The Medical Specialties Pyramid • Career vs Personal Life • Does Medicine Provide Other Options? • Questions?

  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Who am i? • KE Camp Hill (1999 – 2006) • University of Birmingham • Bachelor of Medical Sciences (2011) • Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (2012) • MRCS ENT (2016)

  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Why medicine? • The real question is why not?! • Long hours, Long days, Long weeks, Long years… • Would you find it worthwhile? • Teams • Meet loads of people everyday – most of which won’t forget you • Big decisions. Bigger consequences

  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Why not medicine? • LONG hours • Other jobs with better pay and shorter hours • Difficult conversations with emotional consequences • Life and death pressure • Expectations • Paperwork

  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Your university years? • 5 or 6 years depending on intercalated degrees • Lecture based system initially • Intern based system in future years • Methodical step by step approach to formulate knowledge base • Whole new world once you start working! • May give unfair representation of medical careers – GP bias!

  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END The medical specialties pyramid Graduation and Foundation Years GP training Hospital Medicine Cardiology Gastroenterology Dermatology Geriatric Medicine Surgery Otolaryngology Orthopaedic Surgery General Surgery Urology Run Through Programmes Ophthalmology Radiology Neurosurgery Microbiology Histopathology

  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Career vs personal life • A career on average lasts 40 years and takes up on average 9 hours a day • Significantly longer than most people’s marriages • So you should do something you love • It has to be something you want to do – not wake up every morning hating the idea

  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 END Does medicine provide other options? • Research • Leadership roles • Education • Medico-legal work • Cosmetic and Private medical work • Sports medicine • Business roles • Charitable roles • Company roles • Etc…

  10. Questions? The end

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