After four years of spending lunch breaks with cold cadavers in medical school, you may come to a point when you think that, probably, “this doctor thing is not for me.” So, what are you going to do? Apologize to your parents for your very expensive tuition for the past four years? Regret getting absorbed in pharmacology textbooks for four grueling years when you could have watched reruns of How I Met Your Mother instead? Find an alternative career, of course! Don’t put that medical knowledge to waste! Here are some alternative careers for medical school graduates like you:
Be a science professor
Remember how you wished for a good science teacher who can simplify Kreb’s Cycle and explain the significance of Darwin’s theory of natural selection to high school students? Well, now is your chance. Be a science professor. Teach students how to properly write scientific names and how to correctly identify a cockroach’s gender. You have lots of options in teaching. You may teach gross anatomy in medical school, molecular genetics in college, or general biology in high school. You can also serve as thesis adviser to undergraduates or online consultants in different web-based classes.
Be a medical journalist
Have you noticed how some medical journals seem like they were actually written by medical professionals? Well, some of them are. If you have a passion for both medicine and writing, then you can try a career in medical journalism. In medical journalism, you will write medical articles or scientific documents based on the studies of other doctors or scientists. Your background in medical studies will be very beneficial in this field because you will be easier for you to decipher different scientific concepts. If you have a knack for translating highly technical medical jargon into layman’s terms, then your skills will be highly valued in this industry. Medical journals cater to everyday people too, not just to doctors.
Be a biomedical scientist
If you still want to develop treatment methods and investigate medical conditions without wearing a scrub suit, then try a career in biomedical research. In biomedical research, you will conduct studies and perform experiments to help improve the field of medicine. You may research on the growth, health, reproduction, diseases, and overall development of organisms.
Just because you realized that cutting up patients is something you don’t want to do on a regular basis, it doesn’t mean that you have to completely give your dream of helping other people. You can still touch lives even without sporting a stethoscope or holding a scalpel.
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