Opportunities in medicine
Medicine provides 29 different specialties and offers doctors a wide range of roles in fields as diverse as clinical genetics, infectious diseases, neurology or sports and exercise medicine.
Specialties within medicine combine hospital with clinic-based work.
You’ll need a sound ‘generalist’ approach and an enquiring mind as many patients have more than one medical problem.
What it takes to succeed
You’ll need excellent communication, teamwork and the ability to lead multidisciplinary teams to be a doctor in medicine. Your ability to treat holistically and an interest in and aptitude for research will also be highly regarded.
Explore medicine roles now
Discover the different roles within medicine to find what interests you most:
- Acute internal medicine
- Allergy
- Audiovestibular medicine
- Cardiology
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and diabetes
- General internal medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Genitourinary medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases
- Medical oncology
- Medical ophthalmology
- Metabolic medicine
- Neurology
- Nuclear medicine
- Palliative medicine
- Pharmaceutical medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Renal medicine
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Stroke medicine
- Tropical medicine