Graduate Entry Medicine

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I’ve been out of education since finishing my PhD in 2019.
I’m seriously considering graduate entry medicine, but have concerns over my age (annd 50) and fees?
Anyone else applied, any thoughts or suggestions? Best course, how to work bank shifts alongside?
Any help appreciated.

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stilllearning123

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by MarkleSparkle

I’ve been out of education since finishing my PhD in 2019.
I’m seriously considering graduate entry medicine, but have concerns over my age (annd 50) and fees?
Anyone else applied, any thoughts or suggestions? Best course, how to work bank shifts alongside?
Any help appreciated.

Age does not matter at all if you are actually in the degree, there is a very wide range of people who do medicine, many of which have been out of school for a long time.
I would say it is a bit late for medicine, once you have done the 5 years of school, then 10 years of training until consultancy, you will be long past the retirement age. As well as this, there is a large amount of work and stress that comes from medical school/training to be a doctor that you might not be able to cope with.
You wouldn't have the time to work in a bank past first year medicine, the rest of the years have far too much workload to have a job, apart from in the summer when you get a long break.
Why the massive change of heart now in your life?

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Redsnail*

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by MarkleSparkle

I’ve been out of education since finishing my PhD in 2019.
I’m seriously considering graduate entry medicine, but have concerns over my age (annd 50) and fees?
Anyone else applied, any thoughts or suggestions? Best course, how to work bank shifts alongside?
Any help appreciated.

Hi, I had a couple of people in my cohort who had a similar age and they really enjoyed the course and thrived. One I think was already set on general practice after graduation and did not want to pursue anything also, the other I am not sure :smile:

. Some medical schools require a qualification less than 5 years old, so for some, 2019 might be outside of their eligibility, others might not have this restriction and you can apply regardless. Please check each official website and ponder between standard entry versus graduate entry based on academic criteria, entry test and your finances. The concerns about pension years and training are valid. However, in the current climate I do not personally think it’s that easy, regardless of those factors. Moreover, my aunt worked in finance for nearly 20 years in the same company. Unfortunately, the company was going under so they had massive layoffs, and she happened to be one of them. She is obviously too young to retire, but recruiters deemed her too “mature” or experienced for the roles she applied. Therefore, she had to learn a totally new job in a totally different industry and now works in a bakery (which she found to love by the way) but it was not her career plan, life just happened. Based on that alone, I would never judge anyone on their age when changing careers. I wish you all the best and success with your application 😀

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stilllearning123

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by Redsnail*

Hi, I had a couple of people in my cohort who had a similar age and they really enjoyed the course and thrived. One I think was already set on general practice after graduation and did not want to pursue anything also, the other I am not sure :smile:

. Some medical schools require a qualification less than 5 years old, so for some, 2019 might be outside of their eligibility, others might not have this restriction and you can apply regardless. Please check each official website and ponder between standard entry versus graduate entry based on academic criteria, entry test and your finances. The concerns about pension years and training are valid. However, in the current climate I do not personally think it’s that easy, regardless of those factors. Moreover, my aunt worked in finance for nearly 20 years in the same company. Unfortunately, the company was going under so they had massive layoffs, and she happened to be one of them. She is obviously too young to retire, but recruiters deemed her too “mature” or experienced for the roles she applied. Therefore, she had to learn a totally new job in a totally different industry and now works in a bakery (which she found to love by the way) but it was not her career plan, life just happened. Based on that alone, I would never judge anyone on their age when changing careers. I wish you all the best and success with your application 😀

Yes, sorry, it's just a big change of heart that will end up with them being a pretty old doctor. I didn't mean to judge, I was mainly wondering why now have they decided to become a doctor, after getting a phd in some sort of finance?
Best of luck to them all the same!

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Democracy

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What stilllearning123 said - I'm also curious to know what's behind wanting to make this change? The degree is the easy bit, how deeply have you considered what it will be like working as a resident doctor in your mid 50s?

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