Careers Search DOCTORS

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Careers SearchDOCTORS

• by
• Alex Pak
• Chris Lai
• Justin Kua

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What is a Doctor?

• A doctor
• diagnoses and treats illnesses
• prevents diseases
• maintains patients health
• offers advice and counselling
• does research and conducts studies

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After Graduation

• Serves as house officer/intern for 1 year, under
  supervision of a consultant
• After that.
• 50 becomes GPs
• others become hospital doctors
• the rest take up research, teaching, community or
  administrative jobs

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General Practitioner (GP)

• Opens own clinic or joins a group practice
• Deals with a wide variety of general complaints
• Treats common ailments e.g. coughs colds
• Prescribes medicine and does minor surgeries
• Refers serious cases to hospital

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Specialisation
Hospital doctors may undergo further training to
become Specialists (Work Study!)

• Anaesthesiologist
• ENT Specialist
• Obstetrician Gynaecologist
• Ophthalmologist

• Paediatrician
• Physician
• Psychiatrist
• Radiologist
• Surgeon

SUB-SPECIALISATION More training more
studying!!!
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How do you become one?

• Medical courses at universities 56yrs
• Entry requirement
• Biology, Chemistry and usually Physics, Maths and
  English for A levels
• Min. 2As1B (3 As should secure a place)
• 4 year course for those with a BSc.
• Normally, applicants lt17 or gt30 are not accepted

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Why do you choose this line?

• Good
• Unfailing need to help the sick
• Challenge to seek new cures
• Serve the community
• Rewarding profession

• Bad
• Fulfill parental wishes
• Glamorous job
• Money is the lure

Excerpt
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About the Medical Course

• Preclinical
• 2 years of Basic Sciences
• Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry,
  Microbiology/Parasitology
• Pharmacology, Pathology, Epidemiology
  Statistics
• Clinical
• 3 years of Lectures, Bed-side teaching, Basic
  Clinical Skills (clerking, blood taking, TS,
  deliveries, observe post-mortem)

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The Certificate!!!

• MBBS or MD
• Finally a DR before your name!
• Continuous Learning Profession (new drugs new
  technology)
• THE JOB..
• Secure job even in bad times
• Good pay (HK amongst the highest paid)
• Promotion depends on further specialisation
• Highly respectable

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Some Horror Quotes
Cutting into the cadaver made me a vegetarian
for a whole month.
The smell sight of the shriveled shrunken
corpses made me want to throw up!
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Some Horror Quotes

• I didnt know I had to examine urine, faeces,
  creepy crawlies (worms), and worst stillsticking
  my finger.

Oh yuck! The greasy slimy head of the baby
popping out at delivery eeee!
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For Your Eyes OnlyDoctors at Work
General Practitioner at work
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ICU
Ward Round
AE
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Performing Spinal Anaesthesia
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Laparoscopic Surgery
Hip Surgery
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CME Case Presentation
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Computer use in Medicine
Consultation over phone
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Doctors studying hard..sigh!
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A Medical Career..

• Have we convinced you yet?