Cambridge dilemma - Medicine to MPhil?

Hey everyone. I'm a medical student at Imperial with an intercalated BSc in Physiology/Anatomy. I'm very interested in human evolution and I'm thinking of interrupting my course to study for an mphil/master's in human evolution/anthropology at Cambridge. The course seems so cool and I'd love to get a taste of life at Cambridge.

I kinda want to leave medicine eventually and go into academia (which is partly why I'm doing this), but I'm not certain. Will doing a master's help my career as a doctor, or is it a waste of time? Will I be perceived badly after having done this extra anthropology-related degree (rather than a medical sciences/med-aligned one)? I should be alright funding wise (parents are happy to contribute + I'll get a loan).

Any advice is much appreciated!

I doubt it will have any impact on your clinical career? I think you might be able to score some more points for some specialties with a masters or PGDip (albeit there are probably easier ways to achieve those than a full time masters). As far as I'm aware said specialty recruitment matrices don't normally define what subject the postgraduate qualification is in (I gather many do some kind of medical education related course rather than anything clinical or science oriented).
Obviously it might be helpful for some academic routes which may or may not be connected with your clinical career if you wanted to go on to do a PhD somewhere.
If that's what you want to do I don't see why it would make any difference long term really. I don't see that it's likely to really enhance much for you applying to specialty posts etc as a doctor beyond maybe an additional point for a postgrad qualification that isn't a PhD/equivalent, but it's not like it would be to your detriment either - it may not be the most "efficient" way to get the same benefit (if any) for specialty applications later but that's kind of secondary to whether you actually want to pursue it for your own benefit!