Just curious to know which field is more practical in terms of job guarantee, stress and stability.
Doctor wins hands down. The dentists have been living on their savings during Covid. As a doctor, you work for the NHS so you have a job for life. As a dentist, you work for yourself or work for a dental practice as a contractor. The money is good in dentistry but job security is not. Also, dentistry is soooo boring - cleaning teeth and fillings make up 80% of the job with extractions making the other 20%. Yawn.
If you go into medicine there are 34 specialities and a further 80 sub-specialities so you are bound to find an area that interests you.
Doctor wins hands down. The dentists have been living on their savings during Covid. As a doctor, you work for the NHS so you have a job for life. As a dentist, you work for yourself or work for a dental practice as a contractor. The money is good in dentistry but job security is not. Also, dentistry is soooo boring - cleaning teeth and fillings make up 80% of the job with extractions making the other 20%. Yawn.
If you go into medicine there are 34 specialities and a further 80 sub-specialities so you are bound to find an area that interests you.
That's one thing that interests me about medicine; the fact there are so many specialities to choose from. But I'm always turned to dentistry because how less time it takes compared to medince to graduate and be employable.