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Medical but not doctor. Degree routes. Looking for ideas.

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OrchidRosetta · Yesterday 08:38

Hi,

my daughter has always wanted to be a dentist, always said this from year 7. Shes mentioned trying for medicine or a doctor more recently, but as she’s 15 it changes understandably. Someone mentioned Pharmacolgy and another friend said try for aesthetics. These are just ideas. As we are now looking at A-levels we are thinking of Bio, Chem, and something else. The last two weeks have made her doubt herself about the competitiveness of these courses. What careers could she look at that aren’t Doctor or Dentist but science. Just want to add not research type. She lives biology in every sense. Chem is really to get into that route of medicine. She’s really great with people and talking so something along those lines, and she says she wants to help people.

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Ilovemyshed · Yesterday 08:39

Physician Associate?

LittleGreenDuck · Yesterday 08:40

Maths is the obvious one. Supports the sciences and is required for many, if not most, medical degrees.

Imicola · Yesterday 08:40

Public health. Many ways to get into it, including the option to become a consultant from a non medical background.

LittleGreenDuck · Yesterday 08:41

Sorry, I misunderstood the question. I thought she was looking for the third A Level!

bababamama · Yesterday 08:41

Ideally maths with those a levels, biomedical engineering?

MerryAquaKoala · Yesterday 08:43

Psychology 3rd A level. Then Nursing or medicine - depending how her A levels go.

GeorgeBeckett · Yesterday 09:03

Careers that have specialists skills and can have high levels of autonomy that people forget about that don’t have the crazy rotas to moving around the contry:

Cardiac Physiologist
Therapeutic Radiographer
Diagnostic Radiographer
Pharmacy
Dietician
Podiatrist
Physiotherapy
Operating Department Practitioner
Midwifery (still has crazy rotas)

WhosGotTheKeysToMyBimma · Yesterday 09:05

Newbeginningsandhappy · Yesterday 08:41

Agree with this

A close friend is a respiratory physiologist

She now earns £££ at a private hospital and is doing a PhD

pinkishtongue · Yesterday 09:10

Radiology?

blessedarethequichemakers · Yesterday 09:18

Speech and language therapist? Highly analytical, new grads go in the nhs at band 5.

OrchidRosetta · Yesterday 10:25

GeorgeBeckett · Yesterday 09:03

Careers that have specialists skills and can have high levels of autonomy that people forget about that don’t have the crazy rotas to moving around the contry:

Cardiac Physiologist
Therapeutic Radiographer
Diagnostic Radiographer
Pharmacy
Dietician
Podiatrist
Physiotherapy
Operating Department Practitioner
Midwifery (still has crazy rotas)

Yes this is more what I was looking for. She could go down the medicine route- but not a doctor, if that makes sense.

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OrchidRosetta · Yesterday 10:26

And what degrees would she be applying for if these were an option?

I didn’t think about speech and language therapist and I like the sound of cardio physiologist.

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Newbeginningsandhappy · Yesterday 11:50

The AHP roles are specific degrees. If you click on the link above it should give information on degrees.

HostaCentral · Yesterday 12:41

BioMed or BioChem at uni gets you into all sorts of interesting fields..... From Health Economics, to Medical Consultancy, Pharma, even AI now, as this is the next big thing in drug research.

Add Maths to Biology and Chemistry and that gives a good broad entry into lots of degrees.

postitnot · Yesterday 19:07

What's putting her off dentistry? Is it that I'd so ridiculously competitive?

Has she thought about Dental Therapy instead?

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