What are the fields in medical?

Question

My knowledge about medical science is that one can be either M.B.B.S or doctor .Thats it. I want to know more about other fields . I really want to do something in medical science .So please help me to find out courses in it to make out a successful career out of it , moreover it will also remain in my interest and also hopefully my profession.

By the way i am in first year junior college and have taken biology as my one of the subjects.

Answer 1

I'm not sure I totally understand your question- are you asking for titles like pharmacist, aesthesiologist, radiology, surg. tech??

If so there's some... as far as others there is medical examiner (forensics- which actually has a few disciplines in itself), lab work (scientist- many disciplines here as well), you could go into the administration side- run a hospital, med center, nursing home...

You may be interested to know that many fields in this realm will require alot of sciences (bio., chem, a&p) as well as some business courses (usually geared more towards ethics than marketing tho) and the higher paid positions will most likely require a very high education.

Talk to your advisor at the school you attend, research some of the things you are interested in, research some of the schools that offer those programs and you will usually run into other programs and jobs you might find interesting.

You can search requirements for certain degrees to see how much you can do within your current degree (if you are going to be a psychologist for example, get a copy of the psych degree requirements and fill your electives with courses will correlate/transfer) you can save alot of time and money by really doing some work here.

Another thing to do is to go to job sites, search for jobs in your area in the discipline you are interested in, see how many jobs are available, try to find out if the field is a 'growing field', see if you'll be happy with the starting salary and how quickly or slowly you can raise that amount with experience/more education. For example I wanted to be an architect, but in researching a little I found that after a BS I'm only guaranteed a salary of about $38,000 in a field that will likely be flooded by the time I graduate- not exactly what I had in mind after close to 6 years of school. Whatever you do just don't rely on advisors to let you know the best avenue for you!