Fresh MBBS graduates don’t have a placement system like engineering grads.We never grew up hearing “so-and-so from XYZ Medical College landed a ₹1 crore / 50LPA / 24 LPA package” — the kind of headline that’s almost routine for IITs and top engineering colleges.
Campus placements, LPA figures, recruiter drives — an entire arena built around that one transition from student to professional. We don’t have that.
Honesty speaking , the journey is actually very different. After MBBS, you graduate simply as a DOCTOR ie Registered Physician
But “DOCTOR ” as such isn’t a job title, it’s just a starting point of your lifelong journey. What follows isn’t a placement, it’s a maze.
Some paths after MBBS are visible and well known as mentioned below :
✅ CONVENTIONAL Pathways
– Clinical Practice
– Postgraduate entrance preparation
– Hospital jobs as RMO
✅ Non CONVENTIONAL Pathways
– Participation in Research
– Pharmacovigilance
– Medical affairs
– Medical writing
– AI HealthTech is recent addition
Think about how we actually spend those years in our medical colleges. From first year to final year, most of it disappears into theory for professional exams. Internship, when it finally arrived, is consumed by rigorous clinical duty.
There is no dedicated semester, where someone sat with us and said — ” Here are the other places your medical knowledge could go. These are the industries you can put your clinical knowledge into… ” at least for us.
So when internship ends, fresh graduates split, almost by default, into two streams — PG preparation and duty-seekers. Not necessarily because that’s what they want, but that’s what they saw.
Some don’t even get the luxury of choosing. As first-generation doctors, family expectations weigh in early — take a duty job, a steady pay to support family & own PG preparation, something out of compulsion.
And then there’s a third group. The ones left standing in between. Curious, capable, but with no idea where the non-conventional door even is, what skills can open it, or who’s hiring on the other side. I can count myself amongst them !
Why every doctor has to follow the same road of specialty when medicine today spills into data, technology, public policy, and industry in ways it never used to ?
Because there is no organised bridge that connects thousands of indian fresh graduates with these industries that need their medical expertise.This leads to a critical gap.
Perhaps it is time to rethink & redesign indian medical education. In a healthcare landscape that’s increasingly technological, integrated, and fast-moving ; besides clinical training , a real ecosystem need to be introduced where we can discover these opportunities, build skills on demand, connect with the people hiring , and put our medical knowledge to work beyond the hospital corridor.
This can be a conversation worth starting.
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