Specialties

There are a huge range of specialities but at this early stage, ensure you keep an open mind and your doors open. This page is simply here to illustrate the diversity of fields within medicine.

Specialties range from:

Academic medicine
Anaesthesia
Dermatology
Emergency medicine
Endocrinology
Expedition medicine
Gastroenterology
General practitioner
Geriatric medicine
Haematology
Medical genetics

Neurology
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Oncology
Opthalmology
Palliative medicine
Pathology
Paediatrics
Psychiatry
Radiology
Rheumatology
Surgery

Academic Medicine

Clinical academics usually focus on 2 of the following 3 areas: teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students, research as well as patient care. Your tutors and lecturers at university will be clinical academic doctors.

More information can be found here