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Contents

  • Essentials
    • The Sims 3 Primer
      • Leading a New Life
      • Personality
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • A Day in the Life
      • Mood
      • Mood Boosting Tips and Tricks
      • Wishes
      • Opportunities
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
      • Relationships and Socializing
  • Walkthrough
    • New Simology
      • Introduction
      • Create a Sim
      • Skills
      • New Socials
      • New Opportunities
    • New Venues and Real Estate
      • New Venues
      • Fire Station
      • Salon
      • Junkyard
      • Consignment Store
      • Laundromat
      • Real Estate
    • Tour of Twinbrook
      • City Living
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Parks
      • Fishing Spots
      • Collecting
    • Careers
      • Professions
      • Ghost Hunter
      • Career Progression
      • Investigations
      • Spirit Collecting
      • Firefighter
      • Career Progression
      • Emergencies
      • Investigator
      • Career Progression
      • Tools of the Trade
      • Cases
      • Architectural Designer
      • Career Progression
      • Stylist
      • Career Progression
      • Medical Career
      • Career Progression
      • Skill-Based Careers
    • Traditional Careers
      • Traditional Careers
      • Educator (New Career)
      • Business
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-Time Work
      • School
    • New Objects
      • Ambitious Objects
      • Object Catalog

The Sims 3 Ambitions Guide › Walkthrough › Careers

Career Progression

Original Activity

The Medical career is one of the most stressful careers, so to advance, you need activities in the Sim's life to counteract the Stressed Out moodlet.

Mood is a major factor in promotions, so be sure to sleep when possible (the Sleep in Ready Room tone helps out with this) and have an activity that lowers tension, such as reading, exercise, or socializing.

Tip

The Medical career does not factor relationship with co-workers or the boss into promotions. The quality of work is what really counts.

As soon as you reach the Medical Intern promotion, get ready for a hectic schedule. The Sim gets a beeper and has to come into work at odd hours.

Shifts start growing, too, so be ready to spend lots of time at the hospital as you work farther up the promotion ladder. Medical Interns earn the Give Medical Advice social, which helps out pregnant Sims.

Tip

Pregnant Sims who regularly seek medical advice (or receive it) assist the development of the pregnancy, which can lead to the baby getting highly desirable traits.

When you reach the Medical Intern position, you start receiving medical journals, too.

These are critical for future advancement because the number of journals read is a metric for deciding promotions alongside mood and Logic skill. In your off time, be sure to read these medical journals because the game keeps track of this statistic.

At the Resident level, Sims get two new socials: Give Good Medical Advice and Brag About Being a Doctor. The Give Good Medical Advice has a greater benefit to expectant mothers—in fact, the Medical Sim can even deduce the sex of the baby.

Note

The Brag social impresses other Sims in conversation. If the other Sim is already romantically interested in the Medical Sim, that romance is further enhanced.

Community Activities

Upon reaching level 3 of the Medical career, Sims can now perform activities around the community just like the Ghost Hunter or Firefighter. Events like free clinics and vaccinations pop out on map view.

When you report to the community lot where these events are to take place, your Sim is typically swarmed by neighbors.

Now, you must perform as many of the necessary interactions on these Sims as possible before the time limit of the event expires. The more Sims you get to, the better your do at the activity.

If there is time in the work day following the activity, return to the hospital to complete your shift, manage tones to meet promotion metrics, and get paid.

Note

Community events do not have Current Job boxes to track activities and requirements. You just need to get to as many Sims as possible.

Use map view to identify and travel to medical events in the community.

Caution

Sims who do not receive treatment in a timely manner or are not gotten to by the end of the event leave dejectedly and you may suffer a reduced LTR with them.

Opportunities

Medical Sims are offered opportunities during the course of the career that result in payouts and increased relationships.

Some of these opportunities are single events while others are chained together. Upon completing the chain, your Sim is rewarded.

Emergancy Testing

Hint
Test for Disease at community location to help with the outbreak.
Assist with Emergency at the hospital to help with the crisis.

Equipment Arrival

Hint
Discuss Medical Equipment at City Hall.
Discuss Vote with Sim X to gain support for issue.
Convince to Vote to 3 Sims to aid the council member.
Report In to Sim X.
Go to work to report in and receive a relationship boost with co-workers and the boss, and a large performance boost.

Hospital Mystery Hints

Hint
Investigate Scene at the hospital after work to find clues.
Question the three Sims to see if they have alibis or information about the crime.
Search for Card at the bistro to see if Sim X can track down the missing security card.
Question About Card with Sim X to see if any information about the lost card can be found.
Return to work to announce your success.

Bad Medical Cliques Hints

Hint
Discuss Conflict with Sim X to see what the issues are.
Discuss Lab Issue with Sim X to see if there is any way to better distribute the lab assignment time.
Throw a party and invite Sim X to get cooperation.
Report In to Sim X to see if everything will be fixed.

Equipment Needs Hints

Hint
Check on the Order at community location to determine the hang up.
Discuss Certification Process with Sim X. Be sure to be on a solid relationship standing first.
Check Public Records at City Hall to find out more about the problem.
Go to work to report in and receive relationship with the boss, money, and a performance boost.

Medical Outreach

Throughout the Medical career, your Sim is presented with events at local venues (those where you disappear) to confer about medical issues, discuss hospital business, or perform clinics.

To complete these operations, you only need to click on the venue and choose to take on the Medical Outreach activity. Your Sim then travels to the location and, after several hours, emerges to positive results.

Vaccinations

Vaccination clinics occur at community lots. When you choose to fulfill this activity, your Sim travels to the designated lot and sets up shop. Within minutes, Sims start crowding around you to get their shots.

Click on waiting Sims and choose the Vaccinate interaction to "stack" them into your action queue. Your Sim then goes down the list, giving shots to each Sim until time is up.

Free Clinics

Free clinics are very similar to vaccination jobs. When you go to the community lot where the hospital is sponsoring a free clinic, Sims gather around. Click on waiting Sims and choose Diagnose to add them to the queue.

During the hours of the clinic, your Sim attends to as many patients as possible. Your Sim holds up diagnostic equipment like a portable x-ray machine and deduces the potential problem.

After a few minutes, the diagnosis is made and a treatment is administered. The target of the treatment is happy, boosting your LTR.

Note

Be sure to use the Follow Up with Patient social on Sims you've treated, for LTR boosts.

Local Emergencies

When Medical Sims are at a community lot (not a venue where they disappear for hours), there is a slight chance they may encounter a Sim having an emergency, such as choking.

You receive a message stating that a Sim is having an emergency. You now have a Medical Attention interaction on the suffering Sim. Your Sim performs whatever is needed to save the impromptu patient.

Onlookers at this point cheer, giving the Medical Sim increased relationships with all who watched.

Note

If a local emergency happens at a venue where you do vanish, the save happens automatically without any of the cheers.

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