The Doctor Career is one of the active careers in The Sims 4. You will follow your Sim to the workplace. Though the career starts as an intern, once your Sim becomes a doctor, they can work at the hospital and make house calls.
This career requires you to interact with patients, diagnose ailments, and offer treatments. Each task you complete throughout your career will rank you until you get to the Chief of Staff position, where you can manage the hospital.
This guide will give you all the information about the Doctor Career in The Sims 4, including the top talents, career levels and career items, job rankings, Career Tasks, best mods list, and cheats. We’ll also discuss how to make money from this career.
How to Become a Doctor in The Sims 4?
If you want to pursue a doctor career in The Sims 4, go to the Career Panel in the bottom right corner and choose a doctor from the list of options. You will get the Medical Intern job, which is 7:00 AM—3:00 PM ($18/hour) and has only Wednesdays and Thursdays off.
As you begin your career as an intern, you’ll need to complete the list of tasks, track your daily progress, and move up to unlock a new level. You must finish this bar daily, and if you cannot do so during your regular office hours, you may remain late for two hours to complete the chores. To advance to the next level, you must achieve a minimum of two out of three on the progress meter.
A doctor’s career is focused on taking care of patients. Your performance is based on how many Sims you’ve diagnosed correctly and treated. If you’re ready to provide patients with quality care and diagnose illnesses, then this is the correct career for you.
Best Skills and Traits for a Doctor Career
Focused
You must be focused on your career to treat hundreds of patients and avoid making mistakes in diagnosing diseases. If your sim lacks focus, you can increase it by playing chess or using Simedia on the computer. You can also research different diseases using the hospital’s Research Health Reports on Medical Journals.
Genius
Remembering different diseases and their possible treatments requires your sim to be a genius. You also need to improve your diagnosing ability by adding experience from past diagnoses.
Handiness
Having high handiness skills helps you upgrade the medical equipment while improving its functionality, making it unbreakable and saving you time.
Doctor Career Levels and Job Ranks
If you’ve played the Discover University expansion, you can only start the medical career after getting a biology degree at university. Whether you have a degree or not, the progress in this career depends on exceptional job performance and expert care.
| Level | Job | Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical Intern | $144/day |
| 2 | Orderly | $184/day |
| 3 | Medical Assistant | $280/day |
| 4 | Medical Technologist | $392/day |
| 5 | Assistant Nurse | $680/day |
| 6 | R.N. | $950/day |
| 7 | Doctor- General Practitioner | $1350/day |
| 8 | Medical Specialist | $1950/day |
| 9 | Surgeon | $2450/day |
| 10 | Chief of Staff | $2800/day |
Career Tasks
Like other careers, you’ll have to complete a list of tasks to advance to the next rank. At the early level of your career, you’ll diagnose and care for patients, and as you progress, you’ll start treating them. Let’s break down the tasks you’ll face throughout your career.
Diagnosing a patient’s disease
There are 13 key symptoms and 8 diseases in the doctor’s career. Here’s a quick rundown of each symptom:
- Stomachache: Your Sim will rub their stomach and look uncomfortable.
- Fever: Your Sim will have steam rising from their head and might brush their hand across their forehead.
- Tiger-stripe rash: Your Sim will have a stripy rash all over their body.
- Spotted rash: Your Sim will have a circular rash on their face and body.
- Swirl rash: Your Sim will have a small, spiral-shaped rash on their face.
- Scratching: Your Sim will scratch themselves due to discomfort.
- Coughing: Your Sim will have a quick cough, often accompanied by sneezing.
- Dizziness or head stars: Your Sim will have a star-shaped halo around their head.
- Swatting: Your Sim will swipe their hand in front of their face as if there’s a fly.
- Giggling: Your Sim will laugh uncontrollably.
- Steam blowing from ears: Your Sim will have steam coming out of their ears.
- Headache: Your Sim will have an orange visual that pulsates outwards from their head.
Cheat Sheet
Here’s a handy cheat sheet to help you diagnose Sims:
| Symptom | Disease |
|---|---|
| Stomachache | Burning Belly, Itchy Blombo |
| Fever | Triple Threat, Burning Belly |
| Tiger-stripe rash | Tiger-stripe Rash Disease |
| Spotted rash | Spotted Rash Disease, Itchy Blombo |
| Swirl rash | Swirl Rash Disease |
| Scratching | Itchy Blombo, Burning Belly |
| Coughing | Triple Threat, Burning Belly |
| Dizziness or head stars | Triple Threat, Burning Belly |
| Swatting | Itchy Blombo |
| Giggling | Giggles Disease |
| Steam blowing from ears | Ear Infection |
| Headache | Headache Disease |
Delivering Babies
You can deliver babies in Sims 4, but you must achieve level 8 in your career. Transfer the pregnant patient to the surgery table immediately after the patient enters the hospital premises. If you are at level, you can only check the sex of the baby when a patient is pregnant.
Responding to House Calls
As a doctor, you will be asked to respond to house calls. These are not mandatory, and if you don’t respond, it will not affect your daily performance. When you get a call, ring the bell at the front desk, and they will give you the directions.
After arriving at the scene, you will be given an objective. Complete this objective to get the performance boost. Click on the SIM to end the call.
Rewards and Bonuses
With every rank, you unlock rewards, such as clothing or lab materials. Let’s review all the rewards you will get throughout your career as a doctor.
| Level | Reward |
|---|---|
| 1 | – |
| 2 | 192 Simoleons, new clothes, Doctor Xavier Ray’s Display, Not so blind eye chart |
| 3 | 256 Simoleons, X-Ray Machines, give medical advice to other Sims (if your Mischief level is 3, you can give bad medical advice) |
| 4 | 312 Simoleons, New Clothes, Defeat the Darkness Surgical Light, also can use Medical Treadmills at work |
| 5 | 384 Simoleons, restless thankless medical stool, surgery tables, can check hotness |
| 6 | 576 Simoleons, Doctor of medical diploma, can determine baby gender on pregnant sims |
| 7 | 816 Simoleons, new clothes, seat of Health |
| 8 | 1,136 Simoleons, the Digilent Doctor’s Desk, sickness resistance trait |
| 9 | 1,496 Simoleons, Skelly Sim |
| 10 | 1,720 Simoleons, doctor career styled room |
Best Mods for Playing Doctor Career
Private Practice Mod
With the help of this mod, you will be able to practice your medical services privately. This will be the same for all the hospital facilities, but all the administration will be under you.
You will be able to employ staff like you employ staff like any other private venture. You will receive all the profits from the clinic. Also, your clinic will have ratings similar to those of a pet clinic.
Doctor Career Cheats
To access the menu for career cheats, you need to press Control + Shift + C. After you have accessed the menu, you need to type testingcheats on, or testing cheats true and hit enter. After that, you can type any of the codes given below to use them:
Promote
You can use “careers.promote doctor” to level up your sim in the business career and get a promotion to the next job that will pay more.
Demote
You can use “careers. Demote doctor” if you want your sim to go back to a level. This cheat will not return if you have chosen a branch in your career. And if you are at level 1, this cheat will get you fired.
