Some other jobs in medicine.

Occupational medicine is a distinctive branch of medicine because it deals with the health of people at work. Large industrial firms and other firms may employ doctors full-time to advise on health and arrange for the first-aid treatment of injuries, screening for disease in the workforce, control of injurious agents used in manufacture, and in general making the workplace safe. Relationships have to be built up with general practitioners, hospitals, and agencies in the area. Several government organisations employ occupational physicians, too. Some smaller firms employ general practitioners part-time to advise them on health at work. There is now a faculty of occupational medicine in the Royal College of Physicians, which you should contact for information about the examinations and the experience needed to obtain the membership (MFOM). The postgraduate dean can arrange for advice to be given locally about a career in occupational medicine, and several regions have appointed an adviser in occupational medicine. It is still probably wise to have a fairly general experience of medicine and obtain the MRCP (membership of the Royal College of Physicians) before switching to occupational medicine at the equivalent of senior registrar level.