What Specialty Should I Pursue After MBBS/BDS?

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As a dental graduate, I often came across this question during my final year and internship: What next?

While clinical specialties are the traditional route, the evolving healthcare landscape now offers a variety of non-clinical career paths as well—one of them being an MBA in Healthcare Management.

After completing my BDS, I chose to pursue this path. Why?

With increasing saturation in clinical opportunities for fresh graduates and rising demand for professionals who understand both healthcare and management, this combination opens up roles in hospital administration, healthcare consulting, operations, quality management, and even health-tech startups.

It’s not about moving away from dentistry—it’s about using your clinical background to contribute to the healthcare system in broader ways.

To anyone unsure about what to pursue after MBBS/BDS: explore both clinical and non-clinical options. There’s a growing need for medically trained professionals in strategic roles that go beyond the chair or the OPD.

Would love to hear your thoughts—has anyone else considered or taken this path?

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It depends upon were your interest is, in which field you are more interested. Gathering the future perspective of the same field and then choosing the best.

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There are various options .. set up a clinic of your own if u want to invest that kinda money and work on building a practice..
Or work as a junior dentist and then decide to do a pg
There are various non clinical options as well right now .

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Healthcare management and public health are always good choices.

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The confusion on what next is truly tiring and confusing . While in college we often believe that doing masters is the next big step , but only when we pass out of college and step into the real world does the reality hit us . The struggle between choosing among clinical and non clinical to find out where we truly belong.
As someone who’s just graduated I’m still figuring it out and perspectives like these are really helpful in knowing there’s so much to explore out there .

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Healthcare management have a great scope and if one is interested in it..it might be a good future.

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