Graduate Entry Medicine 2017

How have people managed to obtain the £3450? I'm a couple years away (actually only about to start first year), but have been trying to figure out the way to get the £3450 self-funding.

How have people managed to obtain the £3450? I'm a couple years away (actually only about to start first year), but have been trying to figure out the way to get the £3450 self-funding.

I'm saving my last years uni core bursary and then working to save the remaining £450! Using my bursary for something good than year 😂
But if you don't get a random lump some of free money I would suggest creating another account and putting some of your money in it! Two years is plenty! Find a part time job and you'll manage. You could also get an outside student loan if stuck 😊


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Hey all, another prospective med student applying for 2017 entry - which will be my first attempt. I think by then I will be fine academically and with work experience but seeing as a lot of the emphasis is put on the entrance exams I feel this may be my weakest point. So I was just wondering if anyone was thinking about taking the UKCAT this year? I believe it lasts two years!

Anyone here applying to Birmingham, Leicester, Warwick or Keele next year for 2017?

Hi there,

I am also joining this thread a bit late. My background is a bit different to all of you as I studied Finance and have since then obtained a couple of Financial professional qualifications and have built a career in Finance for the last ten years. I did not have the opportunity to study medicine when I started my studies, and Finance was the easy option. From there you kind of fall into a career.. However, I have never really let go of the desire to study medicine. When I heard about the Graduate programme I realised that this is actually a possibility for me and I am now seriously working towards a application for 2017!

My first step is work experience, I am starting to volunteer for St Johns and at my local hospital as a meal buddy. Through this I am hoping to also do some shadowing and see where it goes. I really want to get a good idea of the profession as this is not a decision and a career change that I will make lightly.

I am planning to do both the UKCAT and GAMSAT next year, St Georges will be my first choice so I really have to do well in GAMSAT. I am thinking of doing a course through Gradmed to prepare as it has been many years since I have done Science! Any thoughts on this will be welcome! Thanks.


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How have people managed to obtain the £3450? I'm a couple years away (actually only about to start first year), but have been trying to figure out the way to get the £3450 self-funding.

I've saved for the last two years from my part time job and am still saving now because I feel like itll be much harder to keep working while doing GEM and I wont have as much money to spare.

Just curious, why are you planning on GEM this early? It's much less competitive and way cheaper to just do undergraduate med.

Hi all!

Seeing how I flunked the UKCAT 2015 this year I thought I'll start looking and preparing for the next cycle. Nice to meet everyone!

What did you get? I got 595 lol, gonna need a lot more practice

Ended up with 635, QR section let me down a lot since I got really contempt with people's experience in the forums saying it was easy, so I let the revision slip in this section!

But it was my first attempt and we'll only improve for the next round!

How did you find the the test?

I found it alright, did better than expected at abstract reasoning for some reason, got the lowest in decision analysis. My only regret is that I took it too lightly because I knew it was a practice, if I prepared a lot more and thought of it as the real exam then I'd probably have done better.

And yep, we'll only improve next time, I'll probably start preparing next January lol.

Ahhh don't worry I kind of used this run as a practice too but it did feel sh*tty to have not done well enough on the first attempt.

Could I ask, are you planning to sit any other admission tests for the next cycle and what your background is?

I'm definitely doing the UKCAT again next year and probably the GAMSAT after that if I decide I want to apply to Keele.

I got A*BB in biology, chemistry and maths last year and now I'm going into the second year of biochemistry at Birmingham, how about you?

Hmmm correct me if I am wrong but I thought Keele only offers the 5-year and 6-year foundation courses? Unless finances is not an issue for you, how are you planning to fund yourself on the 5/6-year course?

A levels is a distance memory for me but I got ABB in Biology, Chemistry, and maths and then went on to do a BSc at KCL with a 2:1. Currently entering the last year of my MSc, so it's all fun and games minus the social life

Hey I was wondering if we need to list modules completed and what we got in our in A levels even as graduates on UCAS?