Doctor Jobs for Graduates
Doctors work mainly for the National Health Service and private hospitals, but many also work in the pharmaceutical industry, the armed services and in research positions.
Becoming a doctor is very hard work – involving many years of study. However, this career is extremely rewarding and is a well-respected profession.As you might expect, working as a graduate Doctor primarily involves helping people - examining symptoms, offering advice, treating illnesses and making diagnoses of their possible cause.
Once you have qualified as a doctor, you can choose to follow a path to one of many specialties, from working as a GP to becoming a highly-skilled heart surgeon. More than likely, your medical training will give you the opportunity to discover which appeals to you most.
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Key Skills
Being a graduate doctor requires mainly skills, the most important of which are listed below:-
- A questioning and enquiring mind
- the ability to acquire and maintain high levels of knowledge
- good problem solving skills
- a passion to improve the lives of your patients
- the ability to empathise with people and make them feel at ease
- the determination to reach the highest standards
Training to be a doctor
It is essential to undertake a four- or five-year training course before you can become a doctor. As you might expect, competition for graduate places is strong - meaning that a first or 2.1 degree is the normal requirement. A one-year period of basic clinical training in medicine and surgery, and possibly general practice upon graduating in medicine is an essential requirement before you are granted permission to practise as a doctor
MBBS is the british medical degree (or bachelor of Surgery/Medicine it can also be listed as) - awarded after graduation from medical school. The naming suggests that they are two separate degrees, however, in practice, they are usually treated as one and awarded together.
Doctors can then begin their post grad experience, which can be one of the following:
- MRCP - Membership of The Royal Colleges Of Physicians (General Internal medicine)
- MRCS - Royal College of Surgeons
- MRCOG - Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- MRCPCH - Paediatrics and Child Health
- FRCA - Anaesthetics
Best Medical Schools
PULSE recognises the value of most medical degrees, however, as a rough guide please click this link for a list of the top universities for Medicine (according to the Complete University Guide).
Working with PULSE
We request that you have 3-6 months post graduate work experience before we can find you work as an entry level locum - House Officer. Obviously, the more experience you have, the better positions we can place you in!
We currently have a huge shortage of medical graduates with A&E experience. Therefore, we recommend gaining A&E experience as soon as possible, as we have a wide variety of roles in this area.
