Entry Level Qualification 

12

Career Fields 

Medical Services

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

NEET UG

About Career 

1. As a General Physician, you will diagnose, treat and prevent human diseases and ailments by prescribing various medicines and providing advice, education and instructions about healthcare. You will not be a Specialist Doctor or a Surgeon but you will be required to provide the first level of healthcare services to patients at hospitals, health clinics, physician’s clinics or at patients’ homes.

2. Mostly, you will diagnose, treat and prevent common diseases and ailments such as cold, stomach infection, flu, common skin infections, minor injuries, etc. In most cases, you will provide the first level of healthcare and if required, you will refer patients to specialists. For example, for checking high blood pressure in the range of 85-125/130 (normal range is 80/120), you prescribe medicines and advise on how to keep blood pressure in check. But if a patient with blood pressure, say, 90/140 or higher comes to you, then you should refer the patient to meet a cardiologist as soon as possible although you may prescribe some medicines to reduce his blood pressure immediately.

3. Take another example. You may treat a common skin infection or allergy but if you see that after a particular period of time, the infection is not cured, then you have to refer the patient to a Dermatologist.

4. In hospitals, in most situations other than a high degree of trauma (from injury, heart attack, etc.), you will attend the patients who arrive at the emergency and also at the general medicine departments. You will review the condition of the patient and understand their symptoms. Then either you will do the treatment yourself or depending upon the symptoms, you will have to refer the patients to specialist physicians or surgeons.

Key roles and responsibilities

1. As a general physician, you will prescribe medicines, administer treatment, therapy, medication or vaccination.

2. You will advise on physical exercises, diets and other related aspects for helping a patient recover from an illness or disorder.

3. You will keep track of the health conditions of patients before surgical operations, after surgical operations and during the recovery period in general.

4. You will address concerns or answer questions that patients have about their health and well-being.

5. You will advise patients about nutrition, hygiene, etc.

6. You will keep updated with new technologies and instruments related to treatment.

7. You will maintain cordial relation with other specialists and paramedics.

8. You will supervise, perform or interpret diagnostics tests. You will also analyse records, reports, examination etc. to diagnose the condition of your patients.

9. You will collect, record, and maintain patient information, including medical history, reports, or examination results. 

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies – Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per scheme of studies – MBBS

After your secondary level of schooling in Class 11-12 Physics, Chemistry, and Biology along with any other subject as per scheme of studies in your higher secondary school and then study for an undergraduate degree in your higher secondary school and then study for an undergraduate degree in Medicine & Surgery (MBBS). For admission to MBBS courses in India, you must appear and qualify in the NEET-UG entrance examination. No medical college in India can offer admission without a valid NEET-UG score.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

After your senior/higher secondary studies with Physics, Chemistry and Biology along with any other subject as per scheme of studies you can study for an undergraduate degree in Medicine & Surgery (MBBS).

Competencies Required

Interests

1. Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem solving.

2. Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 

3. Social: You should have interests for Social Occupations. Social occupations involve helping or assisting others; these involve working with and communicating with people to provide various services; these may involve educating and advising others.

Abilities

1. Abstract Reasoning: The ability to understand ideas which are not expressed in words or numbers; the ability to understand concepts which are not clearly expressed verbally or otherwise.

2. Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

3. Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules and common logic to specific problems to produce answers that are logical and make sense. For example, understanding the reasons behind an event or a situation using general rules and common logic.

4. Emotional Intelligence: The ability to understand your own and others' emotions and feelings; empathy for others; adjusting your behaviour or self-control and self-regulation according to others' emptions and situations.

5. Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

6. Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden among other distracting materials.

7. Hand-Eye Coordination: The ability to make quick and precise hand movements as per visual observations and understanding (that is, what you see and comprehend).

8. Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information from various sources, concepts, and theories to form general rules or conclusions. For example, analysing various events or situations to come out with a set of rules or conclusions.

9. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

10. Mental Stamina: The ability to sustain prolonged mental effort.

11. Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

12. Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

13. Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

14. Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a long period of time without being distracted.

15. Verbal Reasoning: The ability to think and reason with words; the ability to reason out ideas expressed in words.

16. Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Knowledge

1. Biological Sciences: Knowledge of plants and animals, their anatomical structure, cell structure, tissues, physiological functions, evolution, and all other related aspects.

2. English Language: Knowledge about English grammar, words, spelling, sentence construction, using English to communicate with others, reading in English, etc.

3. Medicine: Knowledge of the science of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of human diseases, ailment, injuries and disorders. This includes understanding the symptoms, knowledge of the diagnostic processes, knowledge of the treatment procedures and medicines, and preventive healthcare measures.

Skills

1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.

2. Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.

3. Communication in English: Skills in communicating effectively in writing as well as verbally with others in English language.

4. Critical Thinking: Skills in analysis of complex situations, using of logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.

5. Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.

6. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.

7. Reading Comprehension: Skills in understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

8. Scientific: Skills in using various scientific rules and methods to get things done or solve problems.

9. Service Orientation: Skills in or keen interest to help and assist people.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly organised in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You are always or mostly disciplined in your action and behaviour.

3. You are always or mostly a soft-hearted person.

4. You are always or mostly helpful to others.

5. You are always calm or generally remain calm in most situations.

6. You always feel secure in your surroundings and in most situations.

7. You can always act independently or could do so in most situations.

8. You are always or mostly caring, supportive, sympathetic and kind to others.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

1. After M.B.B.S., you can join a health center or health clinic, government medical hospitals, Railway hospitals, private hospitals, as a Medical Officer.

2. You may set up your own practice after having a few years of experience in a hospital.

Work Environment

You would be required to spend most of the time in the clinic, hospitals and healthcare. As a general physician, you will be treating patients in normal working hours of 8-9 hours only. Most of your work will require listening to patients problems, their sickness, their issues. This is a job with an intense work environment that needs the patience to listen. You should take care of communicable diseases and thus be equipped with gloves, masks etc. Sometimes, you may be asked or requested to visit patients at their place and this may even happen sometimes during odd night hours. As a physician you should be ready to visit a patient any time as they will always be in a medical emergency. Sometimes, even in hospitals, you would be requested to visit at odd hours or asked to work late when some endemic diseases are hitting the city or town.

Specialisation Tracks In This Career

​​​​​​​General Practitioners (GP)

General Practitioners are doctors who treat patients suffering from acute and chronic illness. Chronic illness is generally non-life-threatening diseases. They are the most common form of medical doctors. Most of the people first go to them when they suffer from any illness or sickness and based on the conditions, they may treat the patient or refer them to a specialist doctor. As a general practitioner, you will not be confined to specific body organs or have any particular skills in treating people. You will be first in line with medical expert treating patients of any age and any sex.

Career Growth

As a General Physician, you can grow from the position of a Medical Officer to a Senior Medical Officer in a hospital. To build your career in a speciality area of Medical Science, you need to do an M.D. or M.S. after MBBS.

Salary Offered  

After completing MBBS:

1. At the entry level, one joins as a Medical Officer and earn about Rs. 40,000 – 60,000 a month.

2. With a work experience of 5-6 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 80,000 to 1, 00,000 per month.

3. With an experience of 8-12 years, you would be earning anything between Rs. 1, 00,000 to 1, 40,000 per month.

4. At the senior level with over 12-15 years of work experience, you would be earning anything between Rs. 1, 60,000 to 2, 10,000 per month or even more.

Monthly Earning In Indian Rupee

1. Entry level: 0 - 2 years of work experience

2. Junior Level: From 1 to 12 years of work experience

3. Mid-Level: From 5 to 20+ years of work experience

4. Senior Level: From 10 to 25+ years of work experience (there could be exceptions in some high-end technical, financial, engineering, creative, management, sports, and other careers; also in the near future, people will reach these levels much faster in many careers and in some careers, these levels will have no meaning as those careers will be completely tech skill driven such as even now, there is almost no level in a Cyber Security Expert’s job)

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Analysing and interpreting data and information: Analysis of data and information to find facts, trends, reasons behind situations, etc.; interpretation of data to aid in decision making.

2. Assisting and caring for people: Assisting people in availing of services; taking care of people in different situations; offering help and services to others.

3. Communicating with co-workers and others: Communicating with people in writing, verbally or otherwise inside your workplace and various other people who have professional relationships with your place of work including vendors, government officials, etc. or with people at large.

4. Decision making and problem-solving: Analysis of data and information; evaluation of alternative decisions and results of decisions; taking the right decisions and solving problems.

5. Getting Information and learning: Observing, hearing, reading, using computers, or otherwise obtaining information and learning from it.

6. Identifying objects, actions, and events: Identifying various characteristics of objects; observing and understanding actions and events; understanding changes in actions and events.

7. Inspecting situations, events, and people: Inspecting situations, events and people to understand the reasons and causes for the situation or events to happen; inspecting people to understand reasons behind their behaviour and actions.

8. Organising, planning and prioritising tasks: Planning and organising tasks in order to achieve work goals; prioritising tasks to achieve goals and making the best use of the time available.

9. Providing advice and consultation to others: Giving advice or consultation to others about various issues, conceptual matters, know-how, scientific matters, products or services.

10. Updating and using relevant knowledge: Keeping updated with the latest knowledge relevant to your fields of work and use of the relevant knowledge in getting things done.

11. Using computers for work: Using computers for day-to-day office work; using computer software for various applications in day-to-day professional work; entering data and process information; for writing.

12. Working directly with people: Working directly with people to offer them products and services, providing assistance, etc.

13. Working in a team: Working in a team of people; developing a team; maintaining professional relationships among team members.