Medical Work

Which was after a year of tailor making a repeat application after you received 4 rejections without interview last time, and there is no guarantee that you will get an offer this time. That omission aside, they're not asking "is this the absolute minimum" they're asking if it will be of benefit, and realistically you have absolutely no grounds on which to answer this question. The idea that it's quality and not quantity is irrelevant because you have no idea what the quality of the work experience they've already got is, or whether the quality of the additional would benefit them and help them learn something vital about medicine they didn't the first time.

Sigh.

Before you get your pitchfork out, there's a thread on this which mirrors my comments.

Plus, if we're going down that road, I have had two interviews with only a weeks work experience.

Haha. Yes, I'm sure my advice is worthless because I am a reapplicant. I'll just wait for somebody who is "more qualified" to say exactly what I already have.

e: Wait, you're the guy that was arguing with medics/docs in the other thread about how maths is needed for medicine? Disregard all I have said, you are brilliant.

(Sorry for the stalking) But I really don't understand why you didn't get an interview last year? Your application was brilliant (still is) ..I really don't understand what is it that universities want? I am guessing a high ukcat score? Congrats on both your interviews!

Must have not been what they were looking for! I think a high UKCAT score helps a lot, even for places (eg Nottingham) that say they don't put a large emphasis on it and instead look at the "whole application". Thanks!

Which was after a year of tailor making a repeat application after you received 4 rejections without interview last time, and there is no guarantee that you will get an offer this time. That omission aside, they're not asking "is this the absolute minimum" they're asking if it will be of benefit, and realistically you have absolutely no grounds on which to answer this question. The idea that it's quality and not quantity is irrelevant because you have no idea what the quality of the work experience they've already got is, or whether the quality of the additional would benefit them and help them learn something vital about medicine they didn't the first time. You also have no idea what the rest of this person's application is like. Other people have gotten into medicine with less work experience, but renal in that thread for example applied 7 years ago. Standards may have changed, and you have no idea whether they were a borderline acceptance where more work experience would have helped.

Hello not sure if this would help, but I think on the extra curricular side of things my application would be quite good. To give an insight to my application, I've got 1 week at a haemotology lab, 2 weeks admin at st barts, 1 week shadowing a surgeon at st georges and 1 week general hospital work. And I'm in an orchestra for 2 years, grade 6 for 2 instruments, volunteered for 2 years in BHF and the library.

So would more work experience be of any use to me? Or would it just be extra that may not be looked at by admissions tutors as I already have what's required?

well, I think it sounds great to me, but I haven't even been sent an interview yet so I have no idea what they like or whether it would do any good! If you think you would benefit from more and you're not going to be missing out on A level revision or anything, I don't think more would ever HURT an application, put it that way. You're going to have to talk about it at interview and having more work experience may give you more things to talk about. If you think you've got enough interesting things to talk about already, maybe it would be a waste of time.