The good news is I'm all passed on fourth year and so now do hold the terrifying title of Final year medical student.A week and a bit till I start back :o. Start taking your vitamin tablets cause its looking like I could actually pull off this medical student business **!
But anyway: Blogging. I'll catch you up on some of my latest medical exploits soon, but I figured its that time of year when AS students have all got their results and are working on their applications... Well I always intended this blog to be something that would help current applicants but it has occurred to be that I've not really shared that much of my "wisdom" about the application process, so without further adieu:
General advice
Personal statement
– concentrate more on what you gained
from a few key pieces of work experience/ volunteer work than just listing all
the things you have done. Spend time
working on your opening line, you want to get their attention and make your
personal statement stand out.
Interview – Best
advice is to be enthusiastic and to be yourself. Read a good newspaper on the day of your
interview and the few days leading up to it (often there are questions on current medical issues). Re read your personal statement –look for
bits where you may not have expanded much as these may be the areas the
interviewers ask you more about. Think
about what you might want to say for some key questions eg “Why medicine” and
“How do you deal with stress” but don’t script answers too much because it will
sound fake.
Look on forums before your interview – some people put up
what they got asked at recent interviews at particular med schools and the
questions often don’t change much.
What if you don’t get
in? This is in my opinion my most important bit of advice: Gap year and reapply!! Lots of gap year students get in esp if you do
something useful with your time on your gap year that you can talk about at
interview. Get feedback from unis that rejected you so
you can improve next time.
Phone, fax and email medical schools on results day – some
medical place do very occasionally
come up at clearing! A girl in my year got into keele despite not having
applied there originally because she both phoned and emailed them her results +
personal statement on results day and they offered her an interview – have
heard of this happening to a few people at keele.
Seriously, the grad route is always a possibility but as you have to pay your own tuition fees for second degree (so thats £9000 upfront, no loan, per a year) this really should be your plan C not plan B, gap year gap year gap year!!
Websites
Current medical student blogs e.g. www.halfadoctor.blogspot.com obviously :p, but seriously theres some very interesting reads on the blogroll at the right of my main page
http://www.wanttobeadoctor.co.uk/main.php
(by Leeds WAMS, but lots of general advice and example interview questions)
www.newmediamedicine.com
(a forum for medical applicants and current medical students) and/or www.thestudentroom.co.uk then just go to the medicine pages.
Tomorrow’s doctors document: http://www.gmc-uk.org/education/undergraduate/undergraduate_policy/tomorrows_doctors.asp - this is apparently what medical schools want you to be like but I've got to admit its a bit wishy-washy and I only ever skim read it, whoopsy.
Books
Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor (Paperback) (and all other Max pemberton books, all good reads!)
by Max Pemberton
by Max Pemberton
So none of this is by any means exhaustive, but I hope it helps a little. Any of questions about applying that you have, please feel free to comment below and I will try and get back to you :). Also I forgot to mention, how do you apply without losing your mind?? Well, I'm afraid I never discovered that one but I hope you enjoy the compulsion to constantly check your UCAS for changes more than I did ;)
Halfadoc x
*Mainly a very annoying GP exam which combined genuine medical knowledge with rote learning/reciting type aspects about things such as the "WONCA tree" - google it if your interested but I don't advise bothering, for starters theres absolutely no connection to any chocolate factory ;D
** Don't take too many, that's just as bad.
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