Graduate Entry Medicine: 2016 Entry

I feel so in the dark when it comes to applying. I assume we start the UCAS applications in August 2015?
I'm only considering 4 year grad courses as the 5 year is just impossible to fund (so it seems!)

Mr Osborne said in statement in the House of Commons: “A year ago, I abolished the arbitrary cap on the total number of undergraduates at our universities. Today, I am going to revolutionise the support for our postgraduate students too. Until now there has been almost no financial support available, and the upfront costs of postgraduate degrees deter bright students from poorer backgrounds.

“So today, across all disciplines, we will make government-backed student loans of up to £10,000 available, for the first time ever, to all young people undertaking postgrad master’s degrees.”

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These will be available from 2016/17 and will be repaid concurrently with undergraduate loans, according to information released in the chancellor George Osborne's (pictured right) autumn statement on Wednesday. It is expected to benefit around 40,000 students.

However, BMA medical students committee joint deputy chair for finance Tom Rock said it was time that funding was also made available for graduate-entry medical students who are currently ineligible.

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How can you feel in the dark? They're all pretty open about the dates, in fact Medicine is pretty much the most transparent of application processes. Dates for this year can be found on UCAS and Acer for GAMSAT UK. Dates for 2016 entry will be much the same, give or take a day or two.

I'll also leave this here as I imagine it will be important for you chaps. Bear in mind funding has not been confirmed for 2016 GEM entry, in fact I've heard nothing for it as yet. Though nothing was really happening until Jan/Feb this year for 2015 entry so not all is lost.

Postgraduate loans of £10K announced by George Osborne






BMA says medicine is included, but I've not heard this from George Osborne and so am skeptical. Though I imagine the BMA are much better informed that I.

Thank you! That sounds promising?
I dont know why i feel in the dark, i think i'm just confused about sort of what things you declare on your UCAS applicaton, you know with us in the middle of a degree? Do we still declare A levels, even though some unis dont care about them? etc

I felt like i had loads of support in college for personal statements and submitting it and now i kind of feel lost. its been years since i did a UCAS application LOL.

What degree are you doing Zorg??

Psychology at University of York.


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Currently a second year psychology student. Only decided this summer that I want to study medicine.
Ok GCSE, awful A levels and my degree choice has limited the medicals I can apply to. Think of applying to: St Georges, Warwick, Nottingham,Birmingham and Newcastle.
I'm currently in the processing of applying for clinical placements. I'm a SJA first aider and volunteer at a soup kitchen. I've applied to a hospice and local NHS trust for voluntary experience.

Sounds like you've got lots of work experience under your belt !!

I don't think I have enough!
oo I can see that you are studying psych too! I wanted to be an educational psychologist so did primary school placements and mentoring in first year then I realised it wasn't for me. I started uni and found out that my uni is the only one in the country with a clinical psychology doctorate so may apply to that too.
Can you explain the guaranteed interview at your university? What does that mean?

well especially with your school experience, that's working with people so sounds like more than enough to me?
Yeah at liverpool uni they do a guaranteed interview scheme. So if you study at the uni and your a first year, you can apply to be on the guaranteed interview scheme. As long as you get a 2.1 you get an interview. It doesn't guarantee a place but does get you to an interview !!

Do you not want to go for clinical psychology?
It really put me off, it's SO competitive, i know medicine is too but something about it put me off :/

So guaranteed interviewed for medicine?

The pathway is great in the sense that you can go straight into the doctorate after graduation. However, there are a number of conditions such as being accepted into the third modules (only 30 places). Out of the 30 people only 7 are selected for the doctorate.

I don't think I have enough!
oo I can see that you are studying psych too! I wanted to be an educational psychologist so did primary school placements and mentoring in first year then I realised it wasn't for me. I started uni and found out that my uni is the only one in the country with a clinical psychology doctorate so may apply to that too.
Can you explain the guaranteed interview at your university? What does that mean?

I'm a Computer Science PhD student possibly interested in GEM once I've finished my course.

I have all As in GCSE sciences, maths and English, AAC at A level (in chemistry, maths, and ICT).

I got a high first in my CS degree from a russell group uni (just over 80%), and am now on a PhD program at the same university.

My extra-curriculars are nonexistent, and I also have no work or volunteering experience within healthcare. My knowledge of biology is also pretty weak since I stopped studying it after GCSE level.

From looking at the GEM wiki page, it seems I may be eligible for some universities, as long as I spice up my work experience (and extra-curriclulars?), and also get a very good UKCAT score.

I would appreciate it if anyone here could give me any recommendations on how beef up my application?

Obviously carrying out some volunteering experience over the next few years would be beneficial, and practising for the UKCAT would help. I'm also considering doing a PhD project related to medicine/healthcare, which is very possible given the field I have chosen to specialise in.

Maybe reading through an A level biology textbook could be beneficial as well? (I may even consider undergoing the A level if possible, and I have enough time, as long as there is no practical element like there was with chemistry...).

Finally, I guess I'm going to have to come up with some very good reasons as to why I wish to switch to medicine all of a sudden, and didn't go for it straight out of sixth form (hopefully the honest answer of being young and clueless will suffice!).

Can anyone offer any more words of wisdom?

Considering that you're only just starting to consider GEM (and therefore will need info all the way from basics upwards), I'd suggest either reading through TSR GEM pages or on NewMediaMedicine combined with going through some med schools' entry requirements pages.. If however you're like me and would prefer one source that'll answer most, if not all your questions, then I'd recommend this book - http://themsag.com/guidebooks/graduate-entry-medicine-uk-book
They now seem to have an online version too.






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Finally, I guess I'm going to have to come up with some very good reasons as to why I wish to switch to medicine all of a sudden, and didn't go for it straight out of sixth form (hopefully the honest answer of being young and clueless will suffice!).

Can anyone offer any more words of wisdom?

Does an independent paid medical research placement count towards the 70 hours of 'medicine experience' for Warwick in your opinion guys?

It was on novel cancer genomic treatment design work.

Thanks for your help.

I'm a Computer Science PhD student possibly interested in GEM once I've finished my course.

I have all As in GCSE sciences, maths and English, AAC at A level (in chemistry, maths, and ICT).

I got a high first in my CS degree from a russell group uni (just over 80%), and am now on a PhD program at the same university.

My extra-curriculars are nonexistent, and I also have no work or volunteering experience within healthcare. My knowledge of biology is also pretty weak since I stopped studying it after GCSE level.

From looking at the GEM wiki page, it seems I may be eligible for some universities, as long as I spice up my work experience (and extra-curriclulars?), and also get a very good UKCAT score.

I would appreciate it if anyone here could give me any recommendations on how beef up my application?

Obviously carrying out some volunteering experience over the next few years would be beneficial, and practising for the UKCAT would help. I'm also considering doing a PhD project related to medicine/healthcare, which is very possible given the field I have chosen to specialise in.

Maybe reading through an A level biology textbook could be beneficial as well? (I may even consider undergoing the A level if possible, and I have enough time, as long as there is no practical element like there was with chemistry...).

Finally, I guess I'm going to have to come up with some very good reasons as to why I wish to switch to medicine all of a sudden, and didn't go for it straight out of sixth form (hopefully the honest answer of being young and clueless will suffice!).

Can anyone offer any more words of wisdom?