对于大多数医生而言，他们的职业生涯集中在照顾社区或医院环境中的人们。在这种情况下，医生通常是患者医疗保健发展的中心，并与医疗保健团队的所有其他成员进行互动。然而，在对正常和异常身体功能，诊断方法和疗法的新认识的发展中，医生还是生物医学研究的领导者。医生还从事社区疾病模式的研究，其他人则在制药公司，医疗设备制造商，健康保险公司以及工作场所的健康与安全管理中工作。
Few fields can compete with Medicine in terms of the wide variety of opportunities available to the graduate. For most doctors, their professional lives are centred on caring for people in the community or in the hospital setting. In this context, doctors are often the centre around which the healthcare of the patient revolves, interacting with all other members of the healthcare team. However, doctors are also leaders in biomedical research, in the development of new understanding of normal and abnormal bodily function, diagnostic methods and therapies. Doctors are also engaged in the study of patterns of disease in the community; others work in pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, health insurance companies, and in the management of health and safety in the workplace. The Medicine curriculum at UCC is rooted in the basic Medical Sciences of Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, but also places emphasis on clinical instruction. A distinctive feature is small-group, patient-centred teaching, in which students learn the skills of listening and communicating, history-taking and clinical examination. Our School of Medicine curriculum reflects current best practice in medical education and is under constant review and evaluation.