Missed the medicine application deadline

You don't have to study a degree you don't want to do. You're better off getting experience, etc. and then applying next year.

You don't have to study a degree you don't want to do. You're better off getting experience, etc. and then applying next year.

Thanks and my subsequent posts have improved .

Yes they have . Here have a gold star.
Anyway like many have said. You could use an extra year to gain experience but what I am wondering is do you currently have any ? ? Have you worked in a hospital or anything yet ? ? A lot of the applicants will have experience, so I would recommend gaining some. (The word experience is over used here).


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Yes I understand that but what if I don't get in next year (good work experience doesn't mean I absolutely will get in). Is there some sort of limit to the number of times you can apply for medicine?

Look at the medicine forum. You will see there are threads there devoted to reapplicants. If you have just decided to do medicine, you won't have done the work experience. If you have done no work experience, you won't get in. Therefore, spend the gap year getting the experience and earning some money instead of racking up student debt doing a degree you don't want to do. If you are applying with grades in hand, you'll have a pretty clear idea of why you haven't got in if you are rejected and then you can decide whether you can do anything about it in another application.

Do you have an advantage if your applying with grades in hand and I don't know of any medicine related work experience where you'd get paid. I thought most people volunteer.

I meant get a job as well as getting the experience. I should have said that, sorry. You would know that your grades weren't the problem if you were applying after decent results and still got rejected. Whilst there is so much more to a medicine offer than just results, admissions tutors at least know where they stand with you academically and you are slightly less of a risk.

Well I'm trying to arrange some (we have this week off for half term). In this week I'm going to fit in shadowing a researcher at the Institute of Diabetes For Old People in the mornings and shadowing a GP in the afternoon. Then when I'm back at college I'm going to observe a different department at my local hospital every Sunday and volunteer at a care home for a few hours every Thursday as I finish college early. Also I wanted to ask if work experience in private healthcare (e.g. Bupa) is valuable.

Hi, I'm new to tsr so I'm not sure if I'm postin in the right place but heres my story. I'm a straight As student that has been been pretty unsure abut what she wants 2 study at uni. I decided upon maths but now after the medicine deadline has passed I've realised that I sooo want to study medicine n now I want advice on what 2 do now. I'm applyin to ucl, kings college, imperial, queen marys n lse for maths. I dnt wanna take a gap year bcoz derz no guarantee that i'll get in to medicine next yr. I was wnderin if I should email the unis askin them 2 consider me 4 medicine, however I havnt sat ukcat or bmat n the above unis ask 4 these or if derz sumthin I can do on results day. Do I even have the slightest chance? Help plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I've also been told that its not the quantity but the quality of your work experience, so what is considered 'quality work experience'

And what does how I type have to do with the type of person I am.