What can I do with a degree in Health and Medical Sciences?
Why Warwick?
- Our graduates are some of the most targeted by the UK’s top graduate employers (annual Graduate Market report produced by High Fliers Research)
- Warwick is consistently ranked in the top 10 of major university league tables (Times and Sunday Times; Guardian)
- Employment destinations of recent graduates*: discoveruni.gov.uk/
What do graduate recruiters look for?
- A good degree from a good university
- Work experience
- Involvement in extra-curricular activities
- The ability to describe and articulate your unique achievements and skills
How does Health & Medicine prepare students for the world of work?
Here are some of the skills gained by students studying this degree and sought by graduate recruiters:
- Exercise initiative in the transdisciplinary exploration of complex problems in local and global health
- Deploy ethical decision making skills in a broad range of situations working for the benefit of the community
- Develop effective communication skills, targeting style and approach to meet a range of audiences
- Understand own ethical responsibilities, role and influence
What do health and medical sciences graduates do?
Sectors where health and medical sciences graduates were working include:
This is a new course and celebrated the first cohort of graduates in 2023. As such, there is limited data for this degree programme in relation to destinations, however the broad and diverse nature of the course lends itself to a range of future potential careers in Public Health, Consultancy, Community Development and local government.
Sample employers include:
- NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme
- PwC
- Evelyn Partners
Further Study:
55% of graduates who graduated in 2023 progressed into further study in a range of disciplines including:
- Graduate entry medicine
- Public health
- Health, economics, policy and management
- Occupational Therapy
What our graduates say
Molly Fowler
"HMS has prepared me to study Medicine: I will join the graduate Medicine programme at Warwick this Autumn. While the Medical Sciences component of HMS is clearly relevant to the study of Medicine, the study of Health Sciences has also given me an in-depth understanding of local and global health problems, inequalities and access, and policy making that I hope will give me a perspective beyond clinical practice. Health Science contextualises and complements Medical Science, giving a holistic overview of health and wellbeing and the wider implications of disease and disability in individuals and populations. Having an integrated understanding to medicine and health and related ethical considerations was a help to me during the process of applying to Medicine."
Filipa Alpeza
"My main reason for deciding to pursue a degree in Health and Medical Sciences was my interest in various health related topics, ranging from human biology and molecular bases of diseases to inequalities in healthcare and functioning of health systems. During the course I became increasingly interested in understanding how medical resources were allocated and distributed both locally and globally, and how that influenced health outcomes of different populations. My interest in this topic was further enhanced after I participated in a volunteering placement in Ghana through the Warwick in Africa programme. I am hoping to continue learning about healthcare from an international perspective, hence why I have accepted a place on a Masters programme in Health Economics, Policy and Management at Karolinska Institute, Sweden."
Opportunities available at Warwick include:
Careers support from our professionally trained staff, opportunities to meet recruiters and attend events, help finding work experience and free careers support after graduation.
Derived from the HESA Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after successful completion. Contains HESA Data: Copyright Jisc 2024. Jisc cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived by third parties from its data.
*discoveruni.gov.uk/ includes information from the national Graduate Outcomes survey, carried out approximately 15 months after graduates complete their course. For some career paths, graduates need to gain relevant experience, often at non-graduate level. It may therefore take some graduates longer than others to secure a graduate-level job.