Alternative roles for doctors
The following section is for doctors, medical trainees or medical students who are considering a move to an alternative career. You will find ideas of jobs where a medical degree and clinical training or experience are valued.
The skills you have gained from medical training and clinical practice are highly transferable to a variety of professions. These include scientific, technological, managerial and financial roles.
Transferable skills you will have gained include:
- communication skills
- empathy
- problem-solving
- coping with pressure
- professional integrity
- team working
- decision-making
Find out more about:
- the civil service
- the defence medical services
- expedition medicine
- law
- medical communications and medical writing
- medical education
- medical journalism
- medical politics and ethics
- medical research
- NHS management
- pharmaceutical medicine
- prison health service
- working abroad - developed countries and developing countries