Thinking of Medicine as a career?

 

Amongst the many parents coming to talk at our Careers Event next Wednesday we are fortunate to have Peter Ratcliffe and Hilary Kirk.

 

Peter Ratcliffe

Peter was appointed to the Nuffield Professorship of Clinical Medicine in January 2004. Educated at Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Professor Ratcliffe worked at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, the National Heart and Chest Hospitals and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases before joining Oxford University as Registrar in Renal and General Medicine in 1981. Most recently Peter was Professor of Renal Medicine and Senior Research fellow of Jesus College. He is an Honorary Consultant Physician at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital Trust and a Fellow of Magdalen College.

 

Hilary Kirk

Hilary studied for a Biology BSc, and then pharmacology MSc before realising that medicine was the way forward on her personal journey. Hilary believes that she is a living representation of one of the best things about medicine which is there is something in it for everyone. Hilary is now a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist and has been at the John Radcliffe for 13 years. She has managed to combine study, living abroad, a family, and a career. Hilary feels that Anaesthetics is the practical enactment of everything she loves doing and says she never has a dull day at work!

We are delighted that students will have the opportunity of meeting and talking to Peter and Hilary about a career in Medicine.