Career profiles

This section includes profiles of people working in different areas of endocrinology.  There are many different routes into endocrinology:  If you graduate with a biological sciences degree, you could become an endocrinologist working in a lab in an academic institution or industry (basic scientist) or a hospital (clinical scientist).  As a graduate in medicine, once you have completed your foundation years and core training, you can specialise in endocrinology and diabetes following this curriculum (pdf) (245kb).   At the same time, or once you have finished the training, you could carry out research in addition to your clinical work and become a Clinical Academic.  These are just some examples of careers in endocrinology; click on the links below to view career profiles from endocrinologists following a variety of different career pathways.  Find out how they got into their chosen career, what they have found difficult and what they enjoy about their job.

• Clinical Academic Endocrinologist
• Postdoctoral Research Associate
• Clinical Scientist specialising in Clinical Endocrinology
• Endocrinology abroad – Postdoc in America
• Endocrinologists in Industry
• Endocrine Specialist Nurse
• Clinical Veterinary Academic profile

Your perspective

Here you can find students’ perspectives on job hunting and career profiles from winners of the Society for Endocrinology BES annual meeting free places awards.  Read about their journeys through university and how they chose their current careers in endocrinology.

• Dr Anna Mitchell, Academic Clinical Fellow
• Anna White, Medical trainee
• Louise Lloyd, Postgraduate Research student
• Dr Matthew Fenech, Senior House Officer
• Teresa Arora, Postgraduate Research student

• One student’s experience of job hunting

The Society also offers: summer studentships for undergraduates to gain experience in carrying out a research project in a lab; undergraduate and postgraduate essay prizes; undergraduate achievement awards and early career grant programme.  Reports from previous grant winners can be found on the grants pages.

Applying for a Clinical Academic position

This resource contains tips and advice on how to apply for a Clinical Academic position including sections on “writing a grant proposal” and “sorting out the ethics”.  The Society is very grateful to Dr Francesca Swords for preparing this document.

• ’How to apply for clinical academic positions’ (pdf) (357kb)

Don’t forget to visit our Careers links section for lots more useful job hunting and careers websites.