Grad entry or normal entry??

Which is better? Being kicked in the balls for 5 years or for 4 years?

Neither.

Both are Medicine and are hard to get into. In the 5 year , you are fighting with school leavers and in the 4 year , you are fighting even fiercer with other graduates and much much much less pages.

But I am going to have to say Graduate Medicine is harder to get into. In terms of competitiveness anyway

Well, not really. No graduate is going to take the place of a school leaver or vice versa. The places are fixed. So either way you're competing with graduates.

Well, not really. No graduate is going to take the place of a school leaver or vice versa. The places are fixed. So either way you're competing with graduates.

Took you 3 posts to vaguely answer the OP's question.

I call it facilitated discovery.

You can call it whatever you want.

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I definately hope your never going to have to operate on me

Thanks for the permission, chief.

Well, not really. No graduate is going to take the place of a school leaver or vice versa. The places are fixed. So either way you're competing with graduates.

Oh. I see. So they allocate some places on the 5 Year courses for the Grads as well I take it?

Well, not really. No graduate is going to take the place of a school leaver or vice versa. The places are fixed. So either way you're competing with graduates.

Is that actually true though- one medical school has like a 1/3 grads... ona 5 year course?

I have no idea- can someone clarify?

Wrong. Many medical schools don't specifically allocate places to grads or school leavers on their 5 year courses. At Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Cardiff, UCL, Glasgow, Aberdeen, UEA (and probably more) all applications are considered on their merit and are in direct competition with one another, regardless of whether they are grads, non-grad matures or school leavers.

Fixed numbers of places are allocated for internationals - this is done by the government.