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3. GMC guidance and disabled people in medicine

3.4 Medicine: an array of different careers

Medicine is not a single career; it is a group of careers. The graduates of medical school become, among other things, surgeons, physicians, psychiatrists, laboratory specialists, public health doctors, researchers, and policy makers. Medical schools have always accepted a variety of applicants for this variety of careers.

Nonetheless, all medical students must satisfy the outcomes and curricular requirements set by the GMC in Tomorrow’s Doctors. As the GMC states in Core Education Outcomes:

‘The point of a medical course is to produce a doctor fit for clinical practice. What doctors then choose to do with their career is a matter for them’.