This page gives career information of relevance to Imperial Postgraduate Medicine Students.

You can find out how the Careers Service supports Imperial students on our Services for students webpage, explore our career events, attend one-to-one appointments and sign up for our weekly newsletter, sent every Thursday (sign up by checking the relevant box on your personal profile on JobsLive). Whatever stage you are at with your studies, we’re here to help from day one of your Master's programme right through to PhD studies.

You have access to an online learning course called Attributes and Aspirations (AA). This course will help you be a better student by supporting your transferable (e.g. project management, communication, critical thinking) skills and take you through career planning using specific examples relevant to post-graduate medicine. Be sure to access the right version of AA for you, choosing either the Master's version or the PhD version of modules to enrol in.

Imperial students in a labWhat can you do with a Postgraduate Medicine degree?

Postgraduate medicine graduates have a wide range of career options. Some choose to continue using their medical related knowledge in their career, and others choose to change direction after graduation. Many graduates choose to continue onto PhD study. You can explore where our graduates end up further through our postgraduate What do imperial graduates do? webpage. Use the resources below to help you start to explore and understand your options and to begin to develop your career plans.

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Develop your skills

Whilst Postgraduate medicine covers a wide range of programmes, you will gain the following skills and understandings during your studies. All of these can be used if you choose to stay within your field of study, or move into different areas.

Knowledge and Understanding of:

The range of topics and experimental approaches relevant to your area of study. Having an overall understanding of the research process enables you to:
(i) Evaluate critically
(ii) Evaluate methodologies, process and systems and critique them
(iii) Design and conduct appropriate research and investigations

Transferable Skills:

  • A broad understanding and the ability to critically evaluate knowledge and processes
  •  The ability to plan and carry out a project
  • Experience of a wide range of experimental techniques, either laboratory-based, computer-based or both
  • Adapting plans to solve problems
  • Management and communication skills, including collaboration, decision making, time management, written and oral reporting

Support to develop your skills further

A skills audit may help you better understand what skills you have. This also forms a good starting point to structure a CV. From here you can see where you may want to build up specific skills and look for opportunities to do this. Some good starting points could be:

  • The Attributes and Aspirations short course can help you to develop all of these transferable skills and more
  • The Graduate School offers a range of extra support covering both research specific and building industry knowledge and transferable skills
  • The Careers Service offers skills workshops to help you with the basics of how to communicate your skills during applications, whether you’re applying for academic or industry positions.