Swansea Medicine 2024 Entry - Offer Holders

Unfortunately I was outright rejected without any specified reason. Is this normal? It says rejected on UCAS but no actual email from Swansea itself. I saw others had got put on waiting lists but I've been outright rejected with no reason! This doesn't seem right? I thought the interview went well and I could answer everything (but slight delay before answering questions because of my Dyspraxia), I can't even begin to put mysadness into words.

Is Swansea anyone else's first choice?

Sorry to hear about this. I think the best thing would be to contact them directly and ask for feedback.

Congrats on getting an offer from Swansea for 2024!

Setting up this thread so we're not flooding the main GEM thread. Might be helpful for any questions, e.g. accommodation.

Do Swansea usually provide an offer holders day? Would love to explore it some more...spent less than 24 hours in total there so far

Pretty sure they do, was mentioned at interview. May time?

Hey congrats on getting an offer, I was just wondering how did you prepare for your interviews, I think I may have spent too much time answering the questions although they did not really seem to cut me off either so it's hard to tell. I think in one 20 minute interview I only got like 3-4 questions total before time run out for the station. I feel like this probably cost me, I'm trying to dm you on here but tsr won't let me

I didn't really do any practicing. Read BMJ articles which helped with the clinician panel, and most of the academic panel question answers came from my work experience which is quite lengthy, I've worked in the NHS for 5 years. Definitely helped that swansea was my last interview.

I didn't really do any practicing. Read BMJ articles which helped with the clinician panel, and most of the academic panel question answers came from my work experience which is quite lengthy, I've worked in the NHS for 5 years. Definitely helped that swansea was my last interview.

To be honest this book,
Medical School Interviews by ISC Medical, Oliver picardy and George Lee,
Pretty much gave me the blueprint on how to structure answers in an effective but efficient way

Is Swansea anyone else's first choice?

Thanks I appreciate it, actually I’ve worked in the NHS for about the same time as well actually as a HCA but itseems to have not really make a difference, obviously there’s ethical scenarios in the interview that require you to know about the four pillars of medical ethics otherwise no way you would've got an offer, I did read the BMJ as well but there wasn’t really anything in the questions where I could’ve mentioned it.