Graduate Entry Medicine: 2016 Entry

I'm currently in my first year at Nottingham, it's great! Any questions you might have feel free to ask (other than specific interview questions obviously)

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Dissertation done and bound - that warrants a Grey's Anatomy binge, right?!

Congrats on all your offers. Your UKCAT results are amazing. Any advice?

Can I ask what your weekly timetable is like and do you have (or have time for) a part time job? I have a fiancée who can hopefully move toward Derby with me next year if I'm successful (we're only in Manchester) but would have bills to pay and a wedding to save for 😫 Life has a habit of getting in the way sadly.


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Ah, I bet it's fantastic! I love the feel of the place - I've paid a few visits to the Royal Derby Hospital and its medical school, including last year's open day. That combined with the fact that I'm also a current undergraduate in Biology at UoN anyway means I feel fairly clued up. But I'll ask: first-hand, what's first year like? Is there anything you enjoy in particular about the way you're taught? Thank you, I really hope to be joining you in the year below next year

Yeah the hospital is really nice and so is the med school. I'm not going to lie, it's pretty tough first year is. You have a lot to cover and have to blast through it all rather quickly. Doing work at home is a must. There is time to relax and go out etc occasionally though but maybe not as much as you used to in your undergrad.

My favourite part of the course is the way they teach it really. You will cover everything in systems. For example module 2 is respiratory, module 3 is cardiovascular etc etc... You also cover everything at least 3 times during the week through lectures, workshop and PBL.

Any other questions feel free to ask and good luck with everything. If you do start next year you'll share a PBL with some 2nd years and we (as the year above us did) will sort some kind of meal thing for everyone to go to.

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I know, I just want to know if they would've given me an offer. It's unlikely now but my parents want to know since that's where we're from

So are you definitely firming Kings?

Yes I will be. I've realised that regardless of when I withdraw from other places, any offer I receive will still go to another person if there is space, so realistically it won't negatively impact people too much.

Thank you very much!

For UKCAT it really really is just practice - Medify is a brilliant resource. I spent a bit of time brushing up on improving my mental maths skills before I started dedicated UKCAT practice too which I think massively helped.

Are you a current applicant, or planning on applying in the future?

Quick question - I've come across a few sites that mention GEM is being phased out soon; is anyone aware if this is true? I'm hoping to apply in a couple of years.

Quick question - I've come across a few sites that mention GEM is being phased out soon; is anyone aware if this is true? I'm hoping to apply in a couple of years.

There's talk about whether the FY1 year can be used to make up the difference to a 5 year undergraduate degree or not.

There is also talk that there will be a nationwide registration exam at the point of graduation and therefore FY1 etc will be restructured.

I tried for this entry but my score was low so have to try again this year.

I used Medify which was brilliant, but I think I overworked and I was so tired and nervous on the exam I didn't do great.

I will work on my mental maths before I do practice. What other resources did you use and did you feel like you were improving? How did you tackle verbal reasoning? I so appreciate it.

There is also talk that there will be a nationwide registration exam at the point of graduation and therefore FY1 etc will be restructured.

I thought this was definitely happening? Graduates in 2020 will be trialling it I think, then if all is well it'll be phased in the year after?


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