What Are My Options?

Many doctors aspire towards senior clinical roles via specialist training, whether in General Practice or a hospital specialty. However, some prefer to spend some time overseas or in locum or non-training clinical roles to gain experience before committing to a specialty. There is no right or wrong track to take nor timescale in which to achieve your ideal role. Your choice of work in medicine needs to fit and balance with other factors in your life and of course, individual career aspirations also vary (see "What Do I Want"?).

There is a wealth of career opportunity for doctors who have their F2 competencies and the “broad brush” options include:

• Specialty Training (in Hospital or General Practice)
• Specialty Doctor/NHS Service posts
• Academic / teaching / research careers
• Other use of medical training (law, finance, informatics, sales, health-related)

View our online Interactive Career Map to help you make sense of your options. Click the a box to open up the routes potentially open to you next. Click the “i” button on each destination to see a brief narrative about the type of post this is. Make sure you investigate every box so that you understand all the possibilities, even those you may not have considered – these may be useful contingency plans.

If you need to install Flash to view the map you can download if it from here .

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