Neurologist education path

If I want to become a neurologist in the future, what education paths would I have to take after A-levels (currently doing)?

I've looked it up online but half of the time, it's saying that I need to study medicine at university and then specialise into neurology, but some others are saying that I can just study neuroscience at university and then develop into the neurology career path.
I was keen on studying medicine but I'm not really sure anymore. Do I have to study medicine in order to become a neurologist at a respected hospital? If I do decide to be a neurologist I would love to make it up to the consultant rank.
Thank you :smile:

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A neurologist is a medical doctor, so you would need to go to medical school and then specialise after qualifying. A neuroscientist is a different thing
https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/roles-doctors/medicine/neurology

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Original post by fivestarmichelin

If I want to become a neurologist in the future, what education paths would I have to take after A-levels (currently doing)?

I've looked it up online but half of the time, it's saying that I need to study medicine at university and then specialise into neurology, but some others are saying that I can just study neuroscience at university and then develop into the neurology career path.
I was keen on studying medicine but I'm not really sure anymore. Do I have to study medicine in order to become a neurologist at a respected hospital? If I do decide to be a neurologist I would love to make it up to the consultant rank.
Thank you :smile:

As above, neurology is a medical specialty requiring you to do a medical degree. It's different from neuroscience, neurobiology, neuropsychology, etc. The only way to become a neurologist is through medicine. The specific route would be medical degree (5-6 years) -> foundation programme (2 years) -> internal medicine training stage 1 (3 years) -> neurology higher specialty training (5 years). You would be able to work as a consultant after completing this route.

So you wouldn't be doing "just" neurology for at least 10-11 years and would be studying and working in the breadth of medicine. Therefore you need to actually be motivated for medicine as a whole and not just purely neurology. As you will be doing a lot of "the rest" of medicine before specialising in neurology (also neurology is a group 1 specialty now which means during the 5 years of higher specialty training they also are on the general medicine rota I gather so you still end up doing non-neurology stuff as I understand it - whether this would continue at consultant level I don't know, probably down to negotiating the role).

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