Graduate Entry Medicine: 2016 Entry

Hello everyone, someone in my family will be applying for medicine as a graduate, can anyone with offers give me any useful information that I can pass onto her in order for her to increase her chances of getting an interview for this course?

Hey, can we get a full maintenance loan for grad entry medicine? My student finance form is confusing me - for my first degree I got around £5000 a year but now it's gone down to around £2000. Can anyone explain this? Thanks

Did you put in that you get NHS support? You don't in your first year so you need to tick no. You will then get the max student loan

Ahhhhh thank you so much! So do we get max student loan all 4 years?

No because years 2, 3 and 4 you are eligible for an NHS bursary so can only get a max of 2500 student loan

?? I thought the NHS bursary went towards fees, you never actually see it.

It's both. They pay the £3465 of fees but you then get £1000 non means tested bursary and you can then apply for extra means tested on top of that. The bursary is paid to you in monthly instalments. It does cap the amount of loan you can get and generally means people are worse off in nhs funded years (unless you can prove you've supported yourself completely for three years, it's assessed based on parents'/spouse's income).

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Quilverine, youll most likely have the same amount if not a little more in nhs funded years as you have a dependent. My nhs bursary for undergrad was pretty much the same as what ill be getting in sept from sfe, but i also had 2.5k from sfe w/ nhs bursary so worked out slightly better off.

I was hoping to be given advice on funding the 5 year medicine course as a second degree. I am aware I am still eligible for Student Finance maintenance loans, however what is the suggested method of funding the tuition fee payments?

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

Last week I was awarded an offer on the A100 course at Barts. I wanted to hold out for A101, which I was wait-listed for. However I was advised against this.

I have accepted the A100 medicine offer and have met the academic requirements for entry this September.

I was hoping to be given advice on funding the 5 year medicine course as a second degree. I am aware I am still eligible for Student Finance maintenance loans, however what is the suggested method of funding the tuition fee payments?

Thanks!

You self fund the first 4 years of tuition fees and the NHS will cover year 5 in the form of a bursary.
You can either pay 3k at the start of each Semester (September, January and April) or pay the 9k up front at the start of each year. Commercial loans are available but the interest is steep and repayment may well start before you finish the course and earn a steady income. Best options would be either having access to 36k because you or your family saved up or having a marketable skill that you can use throughout your studies that is well paid enough to cover fees and living expenses but still leaves you time to study during term time.

You sound like you are in a really good place to make it work. I'm in a very similar situation - my fees are covered, and there's enough in the bank for living costs in year 1, but years 2-5 are 'as yet' unfunded (ie, relying on income that I earn during first year to fund second year, and so on). Like you, I ought to be able to make it work through term-time and holiday jobs, and I have various back-up plans if things go t**s up halfway through, but it's an awful a lot of uncertainty and self-doubt to be dealing with!

You have a 1-year buffer, so even if things don't go to plan you have loads of time to plan and problem-solve. And you're going into it with a proactive and pragmatic attitude, which will go a long, long way. I'm sure you'll do really well!

I'll be studying in Scotland. My fees are much lower (£2k a year), but I have zero access to tuition/maintenance funding. So in reality, I have to find £8-10k a year to cover my fees and living expenses.

My main plan is to freelance during the holidays and term-time as an editor/proofreader/journalist, doing quite a lot for the first few years and tapering off as the workload increases and the holidays get shorter. Hopefully I can build up my buffer in year 1 (ie, earn more than I spend), maintain it for years 2 and 3, and then run it down as I ease off the work in years 4 and 5.

I also have some help from my parents (they are taking in a lodger for my old room!), and grandparents/family friends who have offered to make small contributions - which I'm reserving for the later years if things get really, really tight. And by the second half of fifth year, you can start to use overdrafts/credit cards as your absolute emergency stop because you have a salary to look forward to in August.

But, yes, a long period of being very, very careful with money and not having much in the way of free weekends. And adjusting my lifestyle expectations quite a bit! ;-)

Is anyone doing GAMSAT in March? and has anyone done it before? Bit lost about where to start with revision!

Can anyone give any advice on working part-time during the A101 4 year course, even maybe for 4 hours a week?I understand it is down to how organised you are with your work but also I've heard from other students on the 5 year course and GP's telling me how difficult and time consuming the 4 year course will be (I have not met or spoken to anyone on the 4 year course for me to directly ask them their experiences)

Can anyone give any advice on working part-time during the A101 4 year course, even maybe for 4 hours a week?I understand it is down to how organised you are with your work but also I've heard from other students on the 5 year course and GP's telling me how difficult and time consuming the 4 year course will be (I have not met or spoken to anyone on the 4 year course for me to directly ask them their experiences)

I'm doing gem and a few people in my year work part time. One guy works 20+ hours per week but struggles to do social stuff as a result, depends what your priorities are. A few people easily do up to 5 or 10 hours per week and seem to do fine.