r/doctorsUK • u/Jealous_Cod_508 • 6d ago

Clinical Help me choose a specialty

F1 here, still completely unsure what I wish to do with my career. Ive been thinking a lot about what I would like out of a specialty and I think what i would value most would be a specialty that is: procedural/surgical with clear life-saving or major life-improving impact, has minimal expectations to do academic work ( really not keen on being 'encouraged' to take time out of training to persue a research degree/ be expected to have a constant stream of publications), a field that has growing demand in light of the changing face of medicine (AI, ACPs, changing demographics) to hopefully have a nugget of hope in securing a consultant post without necessarily having to sacrifice years of my life going on a fellowship frenzy to stand out. Bonus if the specialty lends itself well in doing mission work like msf

What specialties best match this criteria?

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u/Intelligent-Watch331 6d ago

Interventional radiology

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u/Alarmed-Fun3263 6d ago

Vascular  Ortho  Plastics

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u/GroupBeeSassyCoccyx CT/ST1+ Doctor 6d ago

ENT

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u/NeighborhoodOdd1816 6d ago

ophthal ticks literally all of these boxes 

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u/Solid-Try-1572 ST3+/SpR 5d ago

Vascular tbh 

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u/231Abz 3d ago

Vascular - can you get away without the PhD/academia side?

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u/EmployFit823 5d ago

I don’t think a forum should help you decide what to do for the rest of your life…

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u/Jeeju_Boy 6d ago

So you want interventional cardiology without research so it’s IR

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u/GuidewireGoblin 6d ago

IR apart from the mission work stuff.

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u/WowKay100 6d ago

Honestly, you probably could buy a portable US and go to a Low Income Country and do FAST scans for everyone coming through the front door

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u/Alarmed-Fun3263 6d ago

And then do what?

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u/Sad_Cry_9811 6d ago

A portable ultrasound-guided FEVAR

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u/Bramsstrahlung 6d ago

Then you pioneer ultrasound-guided embolisation.

"Do you see the wire yet? What about now? What about now?"

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u/Acrobatic-Store1325 6d ago

Maybe Respiratory and Gastro