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Pursuing a Medical Career

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Medicine is a valuable career path for many reasons. You're given the opportunity to help others and improve their experience during a relatively difficult period in their lives. 

Plus, your work will always be in demand and you will learn a host of important knowledge while training. You will also continue to learn every day on the job. 

If this is a path you intend to follow, you will need to prepare yourself for extensive education and training. Here are a few routes you might want to consider.

Medical Assistant Training

Medical assistants don’t often carry out treatment themselves. Instead, they take care of all the work around treatment that allows nurses and doctors to focus on their top priorities without being distracted by other tasks. 

This role involves reading and maintaining medical records, filing insurance forms, coding medical documents, and understanding the general structure and function of the medical body. 

Going forward, you may carry out basic drug administration or other small scale clinical procedures.

For this role, you will need to undertake medical assistant training, which will make you proficient in all of these areas!

Nursing Degrees

A nursing degree will qualify you to become a registered and qualified nurse. It teaches you everything you need to know to excel in this role. 

Generally speaking, the course will consist of three to four years of full time study. Some candidates who already have a degree can take an accelerated graduate course, which will take around two years to complete instead. 

This course is both academic and practical. You will learn how to carry out basic tasks and procedures, as well as how to act in a professional environment.

Medical Degrees

Medical degrees tend to take the longest of all the medical degrees - often up to six or seven years of study before completion.

This is largely due to the fact that doctors and surgeons take on more responsibility in the professional medical environment. 

To excel in this field, you will need to have a completely thorough understanding of the human body, how it works, and how different treatments and medications can help an individual to recover. 

Like nursing, this course will consist of both academic and practical work. As the years go by, you will opt into areas of more specialism, eventually leading you to be fully qualified in the area you want to work within!

These are just three types of medical courses that you might want to consider if you’re planning on pursuing a career in medicine.

They may be tasking, but they will be more than worth the effort when you land a role that you genuinely enjoy and want to succeed in!

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