Wordsearch: Doctors Specialties (hard version)

A wordsearch of all the different specialties within medicine. This resource is aimed at Year 11-12 students who are considering a career in medicine. The aim is to start conversations around medical specialties and the variety of sub-professions within the career.

There are 4 main types of doctors in the NHS: General Practitioners (GPs), Medical Doctors, Surgeons, and then people who have done a PhD. This wordsearch focuses on the patient-treating type of doctor, rather than the academic kind!

A General Practitioner is the doctor most of us have had the most interaction with. They are well trained to know a little bit about a lot of problems, and are the first port-of-call for patients with less serious problems.
Medical doctors specialise in internal medicine - they normally specialise in a part of the body (e.g. cardiologists specialise in the heart) or illness (e.g. oncologist specialise in cancer). If the doctor is an ‘-ologist’, they are likely a medical doctor.
Surgeons do the slicing and dicing! They are in the operating theatre, completing the surgeries. Like medical doctors, they will specialise in a particular type of surgery or doing surgery on a particular part of the body.

I’ve used the resource to start conversations about students’ knowledge of medicine and the breadth of careers available. I’ve used it to test students on how many they know and can they define what they can do. I’ve also used it as a self-assessment tool to see how well students have completed their research into the profession and to identify any gaps.