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MEDICAL CAREERS�MARDEN HIGH 2024

Steve Murray

Freeman Hospital

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CAREER IN MEDICINE

  • 3 high graded A levels – usually chemistry is mandatory, plus 2 sciences
  • (Biology NOT mandatory but really, really helps!)

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  • 5 years basic course and then 2 years as a house-officer

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  • The choose career path – eg GP, surgery, medicine, lab based specialities, public health.

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  • Spend 3-6 years training and then become fully qualified GP or consultant

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PAY AND CONDITIONS

  • Starts bad but gets better

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  • Not a career if you want to get rich!

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  • Spend a lot of time undervalued and over-worked whilst training…

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  • …BUT

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CARDIOLOGY 2024

  • Plumbing

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  • Electrics

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  • Photography

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  • Heart failure and transplant

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PLUMBING

  • Trans-aortic valve implantation

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  • This is the ability to replace the aortic valve using a catheter into a peripheral artery…

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  • …a procedure usually requiring bypass circuits and open-heart surgery

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NORMAL AORTIC VALVE

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BICUSPID VALVE

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ELECTRICS

  • Atrial fibrillation is the commonest arrhythmia in the UK

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  • It affects 1.5% of the population

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  • A third of patients with AF will have had a stroke at some time

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AF HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO MAP IN VIVO

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