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What is Medicine?What is Medicine?

• Medical practice is generally defined as being the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Today it is carried out by doctors, nurses, surgeons and physicians.

Why Study Medicine?

• After graduation there is a broad range of opportunities for future jobs in all sorts of medical professions. You can mix and match them in your study to come up with a career pathway that's right for you.

• Medicine is a degree for extroverts. A lot of students name working with people as their primary reason to study medicine. Medicine gets you plenty of hospital work experience.

• Most doctors agree there is no greater joy than curing a patient, or for a medical researcher than when you discover a new medicine for a certain disease. Medicine makes you, as well as your patient, feel better.

• People might sneer at an English degree or be bored by Engineering, but everyone will be impressed if you tell them you want to be a doctor. The social cred is big here.• If you want a degree - or a future job - where you never stop learning, where new discoveries are being constantly made, and where you can be at the forefront, then medicine is for you.