Cambridge Medicine Students and Applicants

My questions are regarding the graduate course in medicine:

If you do this course, do you undertake an elective or not?

Do you have to complete an SAQ if applying for the graduate course?

If you apply for the standard A100 course in medicine, despite being a graduate, do you have to have A*AA at A-level?
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http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/education/courses/cgc/content.html see under 'Preparation for Practice'



http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/medicine/ see under 'graduate medicine' says you have to fill in a different form.



http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/medicine/
Under further requirements (so officially no but reality may be different)

I have given you the basic answers which you could easily find yourself by using Google. I'm not sure if we actually have any grad medics who regularly post here who can give a more specific answer

Any current medics - what is your favourite thing about Cambridge's course and why?

Have you applied this year? Did you get any offers/ meet any of them? If so, which unis?
Also, are you really willing to spend another year applying for medical school if you already have an offer?
For Medicine, especially, regardless of where you go you still end up with the same job, and it's basically the same degree, so whether it's Cambridge or not is *almost* irrelevant.

On the other hand, if you did not apply this year/did not get any offers and you still want to apply for medicine you lose nothing by applying to Cambridge - in the end it's only one of four possible choices.

jennifer.zheng is wrong, though, in my opinion. If you look for the Corpus admissions thread in the Cambridge forum, you'll see that the admissions tutor says that the interview is only important if it is significantly different to the paperwork - i.e. the AS, GCSE, entrance exam (in your case BMAT) results. So basically, unless you do incredibly well or incredibly badly in your interview it won't affect you application that much.

Anyway, best of luck, whatever you decide!

Hey,
I start in October and I wanted to know how the lecture timetable looks in the first year. And in supervisions, are they 1 to 1 or a small group of students? And how many essays do you get per week?
Thanks,
Bug.

Hey,
I start in October and I wanted to know how the lecture timetable looks in the first year. And in supervisions, are they 1 to 1 or a small group of students? And how many essays do you get per week?
Thanks,
Bug.

I was wondering if any colleges value Physics more highly than other colleges? Physics was my best science so I'm hoping that I can use that to my advantage?
Thanks!

I was wondering if any colleges value Physics more highly than other colleges? Physics was my best science so I'm hoping that I can use that to my advantage?
Thanks!

Which colleges are known for putting heavy weightin on high UMS for medicine?
I have heard Trinity (Hall or College??) and Robinson are like 98%.
If i do meet that (with 99% average) would I have a better chance at those colleges rather than another which places lower UMS emphasis but say higher BMAT emphasis?

It would probably be Trinity College...the year I was admitted (7 years ago now) they had just started to select predominantly based on UMS. I can't be sure if that is still the case, though, nor do I know what the average of an applicant is now - I certainly did not have 98% average overall!

Ah okay, how was Cambridge life? (7 years is a long time!)
I am trying to play the numbers games (bad idea I know) by choosing high UMS colleges...and upon hearing about Trinity I thought hey, that sounds good.
But isn't it the most famous/ (subjectively) the best/ highest ranked, and therefore the hardest to get into ?
Would I have a better chance elsewhere - I know about the pooling, but I'd be miffed if i could have had an offer from a 'lower' College rather than a rejection from Trinity!

There is no such thing as a 'lower' or 'higher' college. Trinity is particularly renowned for mathematics but for medicine, the colleges are similarly competitive, about 5-7:1 applicant offer ratio. Also, the Winter pool is a fair system, colleges which tend to attract fewer applicants would give fewer initial offers and then give a significant number of offers to pool applicants. (E.g. Girton, Robinson) Most, if not all colleges place high emphasis on good UMS for medicine plus good performance in BMAT S1 and S2 (>6). My advice is apply to the college where you want to study. Looking at the application statistics is not a bad thing but it shouldn't be the main deciding factor.

There is no such thing as a 'lower' or 'higher' college. Trinity is particularly renowned for mathematics but for medicine, the colleges are similarly competitive, about 5-7:1 applicant offer ratio. Also, the Winter pool is a fair system, colleges which tend to attract fewer applicants would give fewer initial offers and then give a significant number of offers to pool applicants. (E.g. Girton, Robinson) Most, if not all colleges place high emphasis on good UMS for medicine plus good performance in BMAT S1 and S2 (>6). My advice is apply to the college where you want to study. Looking at the application statistics is not a bad thing but it shouldn't be the main deciding factor.


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