Graduate training opportunities

This page describes the various programmes available if your first degree is not directly related to a career in health. There are links to other websites where you can find out more.

If you're currently studying or considering studying for a degree in a subject not leading to a clinical career, there are still graduate training opportunities that you can consider in the health sector.

Graduate programmes

Graduate programmes range from accelerated courses for those who want to enter certain clinical roles, to structured management training schemes. Programmes include:

accelerated programmes (leading to a career in speech and language therapy, medicine, radiography, nursing, dentistry, occupational therapy, dietetics or physiotherapy)

• NHS Graduate Digital, Data and Technology Scheme
• NHS Graduate Management Training scheme 
• NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP)
• NHS Graduate Surveyor Trainee Programme
• specialty training in public health
• physician associate training

It is important to note that, although there are formal graduate programmes that can train you for particular healthcare careers, there are also lots of jobs in organisations that provide NHS healthcare where a degree in any subject can be useful.