Career information

Great medicine

  • Use all your medical knowledge and skills
  • Experience the intellectual challenge of making the diagnosis for all kinds of medical problems
  • Manage health – keep patients healthy, share their positive experiences like having children, as well as fixing problems
  • Provide medical care which draws on a biomedical, psychological, social and environmental understanding of health
  • Acquire and use skills in surgery, anaesthetics, obstetrics and emergency medicine or develop deeper skills in an area which interests you

Rewarding

  • Lots of patient contact and continuity of patient care
  • Making a difference in people’s lives
  • Good financial rewards, reflecting the hard work you invest into your training and career
  • A great career with a diversity of opportunities to practice where, when and in a way that will deliver you personal and professional rewards

Flexible

  • General Practice is a career that will take you where you want to be, allowing you to explore new life and professional experiences
  • You can change the mix or vary your practice of medicine –  work in different types of communities, in a focused area of primary care, develop your special interests and skills or make time for your family or personal interests
  • Choose to practice with your focus on medicine or help build and shape a community practice, the services it offers and how it runs
  • Create your perfect combination of satisfying work with the hours and workload to suit your life