Where a specialised doctor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a specialised doctor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Specialised doctors prevent, diagnose and treat diseases depending on their medical or surgical specialty.
Also known as specialized medical doctor, specialized doctor, hospital specialized doctor, specialised medical doctor, hospital specialised doctor.
Professionals 178 skills on file 12 career moves 12 above 60% overlap Closest: religion scientific researcher, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- religion scientific researcher 69% covered · difficulty 40.7
- thanatology researcher 65% covered · difficulty 49.1
- philosopher 63% covered · difficulty 48.3
- palaeontologist 62% covered · difficulty 51.5
- seismologist 62% covered · difficulty 52.1
- linguist 61% covered · difficulty 51.2
- cosmetic chemist 61% covered · difficulty 52
- meteorologist 61% covered · difficulty 51.7
- physiologist 60% covered · difficulty 54.4
- communication scientist 60% covered · difficulty 52.2
- astronomer 60% covered · difficulty 52
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A specialised doctor needs 62 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- diagnose brain death information skills
- diagnose rheumatic diseases information skills
- manage acute oncology patients assisting and caring
- manage treatment for HIV affected patients assisting and caring
- perform skin surgery assisting and caring
- provide healthcare services to patients in specialised medicine assisting and caring
- demonstrate technical skills during neurological surgery assisting and caring
- perform eye surgery assisting and caring
- perform gynecological examination information skills
- perform reconstructive plastic surgery assisting and caring
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Specialised doctor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a specialised doctor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.