Am I eligible for medicine after I graduate?

I think all GEM courses, bar 2, ask for a 2:1+, the ones that accept a 2:2 ask for a masters with merit or above, though someone else may know more about this than me!
You could apply for 5 year courses, but there's no tuition fee loan, so you'd need £36k spare really. I think they'd all make any offer conditional on your degree as it's your most recent indication of academic achievement, opposed to A-Levels.

You say you're just below a 2:1, is there no chance you could bump it up by the end of 3rd year?

Also, applying for medicine as a graduate is totally not crazy

Wait, what? Can you elaborate on this?? Never heard this before.

If you already have a degree, and you get accepted on to a 5 year medicine course you cannot get loans for the first four years of tuition fees. So you need £36k to pay for it.

Oh, interesting. Do you know if this is the case for;

Graduates accepted into the 4year program

And

Those with 2yr university into the 5year program?

Woah...what? I thought the 5yr programs took "school leavers" ? Is that only applicable in Ireland?

Woah...what? I thought the 5yr programs took "school leavers" ? Is that only applicable in Ireland?

OK currently I am a third yr pharmacy student, really considering applying for medicine after I graduate (crazy I know). I had always intended to do medicine but a lack of maturity and confidence saw me apply to pharmacy which I saw rather naively as 'easier'. Anyhow I was doing something healthcare related which was always my goal.
I'm really unsure however about my eligibility. At the moment I'm sitting just below a 2:1 and from what I can see this would rule me out of just about every medical school for graduate entry. I wonder however would I be considered for entry into the normal 'undergraduate' entry course since my A levels ect would all satisfy the academic requirements which would be asked of school leavers.?
To me it seems slightly unfair that I would be rejected based on having a degree below a 2:1, even though my school grades would satisfy the entrance requirements if I had just left school and had no previous degree. In retrospect perhaps I would have been better off not undertaking a degree previous to medicine!
Any information or advice would be appreciated.

OK currently I am a third yr pharmacy student, really considering applying for medicine after I graduate (crazy I know). I had always intended to do medicine but a lack of maturity and confidence saw me apply to pharmacy which I saw rather naively as 'easier'. Anyhow I was doing something healthcare related which was always my goal.
I'm really unsure however about my eligibility. At the moment I'm sitting just below a 2:1 and from what I can see this would rule me out of just about every medical school for graduate entry. I wonder however would I be considered for entry into the normal 'undergraduate' entry course since my A levels ect would all satisfy the academic requirements which would be asked of school leavers.?
To me it seems slightly unfair that I would be rejected based on having a degree below a 2:1, even though my school grades would satisfy the entrance requirements if I had just left school and had no previous degree. In retrospect perhaps I would have been better off not undertaking a degree previous to medicine!
Any information or advice would be appreciated.

Which ones you would recommend that value high personal achievements and experience in being a leader and well rounded person, rather than pure grades? I know all of them do but which especially ?

In many topics here, you guys underline the need to point out your real strengths. My question is how you potentiate and write about skills that maybe 5% of people here have such as:
"I have travelled around Europe for a month with no money just my backpack and tent" -during this time I learnt way more lifeskills than 2 years in my college etc

"Can benchpress 150kg" i suppose not that many people here focus their life's on active lifestyle and hardcore gym.

Many thanks for replies

The key is to highlight key strengths relative to the school you're applying to, and their criteria.

For medicine no one wants to know that you can benchpress 150kg. They don't want to know that you've backpacked around Europe.

They want to know you have the key attributes to study medicine and to work as a doctor. Now SOME of those competencies (things like resilience) you could argue from the two above examples. Determination too. But ultimately the bulk of your PS will be about caring/voluntary experience and what you've learnt from shadowing. You only need a small paragraph on why you're sane and not going to kill anyone intentionally...