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THE
WORK OF A MEDICAL STUDENT
Provided by Brian Og
McAlary Y13 Class of 2003/4
A medical student will go through a tough, academic schedule at university and later at medical school. After completing, on average, a 7 year course between both university and medical school, the students will receive either a Doctor of Medicine (M.D) degree or a Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O) degree depending on their medical school. They will then serve at least a year as a hospital intern were they examine patients and prescribe prescriptions while being watched carefully by experienced doctors. After this they will try to specialise in a particular field within medicine which include pathology, radiology, urology or many more. Doctors strive to help patients to their utmost using all the experience they have learned at university and medical school.
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MEDICAL
STUDENTS AT WORK
SUBJECTS
AND QUALIFICATIONS THAT ARE NEEDED
The subjects and qualifications needed to get into the medical courses vary from university to university. Here are 6 different universities with different grades needed:-
SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES NEEDED
To become a doctor there are very precise characteristics needed to succeed. A doctor will have to learn to interact with the community that they work in. They need to have good socializing skills, and be able to give assurance to patients. They will need to wear an appropriate manner of dress, installing confidence and gaining respect from the patients. Doctors will need to be patient with their patients as illnesses can bring about anxiety, stubbornness, tears and other such things. This can make the problem of trying to find the illness harder. Doctors will need to have good ICT skills for working with computers which are in all professions in this new world. They will need to have good numerical skills so as too be able to give out the right doses of medicines.
TYPICAL SALARIES
FOR
A GP
In
the final year of medical school, the tuition fee is paid for you.
A Pre-registration house officer (PRHO) in hospital will have a basic
salary of £18,585 a year.
A Senior House Officer (SHO) will have a basic salary of £25,000 a
year. A qualified professional GP will have a basic salary of £66,000 a
year. These wages are about to
improve with new contracts coming in, in the near future.
FOR A HOSPITAL DOCTOR
In
the final year of medical school, the tuition fee is paid for you.
A Pre-registration house officer (PRHO) in hospital will have a basic
salary of £18,585 a year.
A Senior House Officer (SHO) will have a basic salary of £25,000 a
year. A Specialist Registrar
(SpR) will have a basic salary of £30,000 a year.
A qualified professional house doctor will have a basic salary of £52,640
upwards a year
FIVE
YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY
A student going to the majority of UK universities will have to do five years of study. The five years will be divided up into 5 different components and after which they will leave to medical school. These components are as follows:-
MEDICINE
RESEARCH
Over the past 50 years there have been great strides made in the research of medicine. Some of these include the discovery of AIDS and other diseases linked to it. The human genome was sequenced in 2001, laying the foundations for the development of many treatments for major diseases in the coming decades. Diseases such as the smallpox, which killed millions of people worldwide, were eradicated from the planet. Hope was brought to many husbands and wife’s who couldn’t have children when in vitro fertilization clinics were developed in which helped many of these couples. There was a rapid increase in the scanning techniques of trying to discover and understanding many human diseases. Many organs were then discovered to be able to be transplanted including the first successful kidney transplant in 1954.
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