You and Your Hormones

You and Your Hormones

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Explore the career profiles of different people working in the health sector - what do they love about their job, what does their day-to-day look like, and what’s their advice for someone wanting to follow their career path?
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Explore careers in science and the health sector

What’s it like working as a nurse? How do you become a physiotherapist? What does it mean to be an academic? 

Are you interested in science but don't know what career is right for you? Here you will find career profiles written by different people working in the health sector from patient care, to making new scientific discoveries, running labs and publishing new science to the world. Find out what they love about their job, what their day-to-day looks like, and advice for someone wanting to follow their career path?  

Browse our job profiles to give you a taste of what it would be like to work in research and the health sector

 

Physiotherapist

Katherine Cook, Physiotherapist & Physiotherapy Lecturer: Physiotherapists help people of all ages to improve their health and wellbeing, there aren’t many areas of healthcare where you don’t find a physio working as part of the team.

Clinical Scientist

Amy Frank, Clinical Scientist: My job is very different day to day and includes a good mixture of laboratory and clinical tasks. Some days I will be in the laboratory, working on new methods or troubleshooting problems with current tests.

Clinical Lecturer

Dr Edouard Mills, Clinical Lecturer: To be a Clinical Lecturer, you need to have graduated from medical school and started your medical training as a doctor (and have a medical specialisation – such as endocrinology).

Nurse Academic

Kate Davies, Nurse Academic: I teach qualified health care professionals Non-Medical prescribing, which is how to prescribe medicines which are relevant to their clinical practice.

Veterinary Lecturer

Rebecca Geddes, Lecturer in Small Animal Veterinary Internal Medicine: Anyone interested in becoming a veterinary surgeon should try and get some work experience organised to see if the realities of the job match your impression of it.

Pharmacist

Rachel Cornish, Lead Pharmacist: From researching how medications can affect the endocrine system to spending time with patients and helping with their medications on the ward, each day is always varied and you’re constantly learning.

Mass Spectrometry Core Manager

Natalie Homer, Mass Spectrometry Core Manager: The mass spectrometry core facility I manage has six instruments and a team of four technical specialists.

Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine

Dr Ashutosh Kapoor, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology and General Internal Medicine: From the final year of medical university, I could not dream of any other specialty other than Diabetes and Endocrinology.

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