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Careers in health that aren’t doctors.

I’m interested in a career in health but I don’t want to become a doctor as it isn’t easy to become one. I would just like to know if there are any other options, I’m mainly interested in helping people who have had physical injury’s like a broken arm or someone who’s been shot, I just find It fascinating learning about physical injuries like trauma and being able to determine the effects of someone who’s say been hit by a car and how this would damage their body and from that what the best way to treat them would be. I had a look a physical therapists, occupational therapists and paramedic’s but I was just wondering if anyone knows of any others.
Original post by james238
I’m interested in a career in health but I don’t want to become a doctor as it isn’t easy to become one. I would just like to know if there are any other options, I’m mainly interested in helping people who have had physical injury’s like a broken arm or someone who’s been shot, I just find It fascinating learning about physical injuries like trauma and being able to determine the effects of someone who’s say been hit by a car and how this would damage their body and from that what the best way to treat them would be. I had a look a physical therapists, occupational therapists and paramedic’s but I was just wondering if anyone knows of any others.


Have a look here: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/

There are countless roles within healthcare, many of them would bring you into contact with the sorts of patients you've mentioned here. Have you considered nursing? You've not mentioned that in your post, depending on where you go on to work you would be able to come into contact with trauma like you've described, especially in something like emergency, critical care or perioperative nursing.
By the sounds of things, you want to learn about diseases, their effects and how to treat them, so I would recommend either Physiotherapy or as the previous poster stated, maybe adult or child nursing? Another alternative would be to become a radiographer, you wouldn't get to treat people but you would learn about how trauma and physical illnesses in particular affect the body... its not all about bones, look it up! My sister is a Radiographer and she loves her job to pieces and from what I've heard from her, you learn a lot about disease and trauma etc. I don't think its hugely difficult to get into, I know the uni my sister applied for only asked for 3 B's at A Level (or equivalet so 300 UCAS points?) Hope this helped :smile:
Original post by james238
I’m interested in a career in health but I don’t want to become a doctor as it isn’t easy to become one. I would just like to know if there are any other options, I’m mainly interested in helping people who have had physical injury’s like a broken arm or someone who’s been shot, I just find It fascinating learning about physical injuries like trauma and being able to determine the effects of someone who’s say been hit by a car and how this would damage their body and from that what the best way to treat them would be. I had a look a physical therapists, occupational therapists and paramedic’s but I was just wondering if anyone knows of any others.



Have a look at plotr.com-This is a website with health carrers.:smile:
Working in Accident and Emergency as a nurse might be interesting for you. Not only look up careers on the NHS website (http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/ or http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/a-to-z/) but also just look at current vacancies (http://www.jobs.nhs.uk/) for different job roles and look at the job descriptions and person specifications and see what looks interesting to you and what quals/experience you will need! Good luck!

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