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Medicine
Diagnosing and treating disease: the long road to becoming a doctor.
Who it suits
ISR
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Helper: teaching, caring, supporting people
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
Students here tend to be a bit more organised, warm than average.
Builds on
Biology ●●●Chemistry ●●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Helping people · Impact on society or the planet
Where it leads
Physician · Surgeon · General practitioner · Psychiatrist · Medical researcher
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$53,616
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
2,088 programmes tracked
🇺🇸 United States 636🇦🇺 Australia 464🇩🇪 Germany 406🇫🇷 France 333🇫🇮 Finland 127🇨🇭 Switzerland 71🇦🇹 Austria 51
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