GEP 4 year course as an Arts grad

yeah, i thing that as an arts grad you would do quite well on the gamsat - the first 2 sections are heavily biased towards arty/humanities people. you would only really have trouble with the science section but since you are considering doing biology anyway then you would bring yourself up to scratch with that.

look into it - i sat gamsat last year and even though i only just scraped a pass - i felt that it wasnt too hard (definitely not as bad as some people make out), and i got offers for nottingham and st georges.

other than that, i dont know much about southamptons course except that it is very tough competition for a place because they dont normally interview (or is this not the case with grads?). so hopefully someone more knowledgable will come along soon.

Hi, don't normally venture into this part of the forum but thought what the heck I'll be brave and go post some questions

I'm currently researching into doing the GEP 4 year course (primarily at Southampton, but there are only 3 other places that take Arts grads anyway) and was wondering whether anyone could give me a run down of what the course is actually like (no idea if there are members doing the GEP on here), finance etc etc

Hey,

I'm in a similar position to yourself having studied music technology and then sonic arts (MA) at uni (I do however, come from a science background at A Level).

The GEP course will be a big ease on your financial burden since the NHS fund years 2, 3 and 4. Although I've read that this only applies to residents of England and Wales.



I'm back at school this year studying 1 year A levels in Chemistry and Biology - you shouldn't have much problem getting A's in both now that you're a little older and wiser than in school.

Although many schools may not require that you have these A Levels (I know that Newcastle is one) it does look really favourably on the whole 'proving your commitment' to medicine.



AT Newcastle the 1st year is very full on and I suspect that you wouldn't have any time for a part time job. Or, at least, I wouldn't be relying on one for financial support!



Get a good UKCAT and you'll almost guarantee yourself an interview, so it's VERY important! Obviously do lots of practice questions and practice the exam technique until you have it to a tee. It's not so bad doing the questions but doing 1 question every 30 seconds (as is required for a few sections) is a little bit trickier.


Have you considered applying for any of the 5 year courses? The GEP's are very competitive (hence why I only applied to one) although are a massive financial advantage to the 5 years with the NHS funding (assuming you are eligible, which I, unfortunately, am not).

If you've any more questions just fire away!

Good luck!

Here I think the rules are you are allowed up to 8 hours a week of paid employment in first year, and after that it is looked upon with an extremely dim view indeed.

I don't know if I've missed something further up in the thread, but do you mean that the uni impose some sort of rules on medical students about how much they are allowed to work during term time? I am pretty sure they aren't allowed to do that - all they can do is urge you not to take on too much. Surely it's entirely up to you what you do in your free time as long as you are keeping up.

Provided you are keeping up they won't shoot you. We do however sign a lengthy contract with the medical school basically saying 'if we haven't followed all your rules and something goes wrong I don't expect bailing out'.

The line the uni seem to take on it is that if you need money that badly you should be applying for bursaries etc rather than working on what I have heard at least.

Thats not to say I don't know of medical students with part time jobs, I can think of at least one. I sure as hell wouldn't want to have to do it though.