Primary & Family Care
First contact medicine. Broad, continuous, and the backbone of every health system.
Dentist
degree requiredMedicine's only mainstream surgical specialty you can enter straight from school, run as your own business, and finish by six most evenings — performed in a space the size of a matchbox on people who would rather be elsewhere.
6–6 yrs trainingpredictable ~40hvery strong incomeGeneral Practitioner
degree requiredThe doctor who sees everything, decides what matters, and knows the same families for decades. The broadest medicine there is, and the fastest route to practising independently.
10–12 yrs trainingmoderate with peaksvery strong income