Doctor here – ask me anything about A-levels + applying to medicine 🎓
Hi all,
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
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Reply 1
Hey, I'm pretty set on medicine and I'm taking Maths Further Maths Bio and Chem. I've always just wondered whats your take in medicine in the UK, since there's a lot of bad press about it and whether you think its a good career for someone to get into in this current climate. Or do you think it'd be better to leave the UK
Reply 2
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Please remember that not everyone on TSR is who they say they are.
Reply 3
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by themeddenHi all,
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
2160, Band 1.
9 x Grade 9's at GCSE
3 x A* predicted (including Chem and Bio).
How am I fixed?
Reply 4
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by Mike7472160, Band 1.
9 x Grade 9's at GCSE
3 x A* predicted (including Chem and Bio).
How am I fixed?
9 x Grade 9's at GCSE
3 x A* predicted (including Chem and Bio).
How am I fixed?
Amazing
Should be in good position
Hows the personal statement coming along?
Reply 5
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by UndecisiveBoyHey, I'm pretty set on medicine and I'm taking Maths Further Maths Bio and Chem. I've always just wondered whats your take in medicine in the UK, since there's a lot of bad press about it and whether you think its a good career for someone to get into in this current climate. Or do you think it'd be better to leave the UK
Its always had its ups and downs, since the beginning of the NHS.
Imo its best to get into something when its NOT working well, as there are more opportunities
You considering it?
Reply 6
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by themeddenAmazing
Should be in good position
Hows the personal statement coming along?
Should be in good position
Hows the personal statement coming along?
Reply 7
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by themeddenAmazing
Should be in good position
Hows the personal statement coming along?
Should be in good position
Hows the personal statement coming along?
Thanks BTW
Reply 8
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by Mike747Ask AI
Hahahhaahha
No fair enough, just make sure you write it in own words too- they have ways to detect AI use apparently?!
Reply 9
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by themeddenHahahhaahha
No fair enough, just make sure you write it in own words too- they have ways to detect AI use apparently?!
No fair enough, just make sure you write it in own words too- they have ways to detect AI use apparently?!
Nah, kidding.
It's just a box-ticker anyhow.
I doubt half of them even read it if the other stuff is OK. B'ham doesn't read them at all.
Reply 10
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by Mike747Nah, kidding.
It's just a box-ticker anyhow.
I doubt half of them even read it if the other stuff is OK. B'ham doesn't read them at all.
It's just a box-ticker anyhow.
I doubt half of them even read it if the other stuff is OK. B'ham doesn't read them at all.
They help with the interview then, they use it during it- so it counts for the last stage!
Reply 11
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by themeddenHahahhaahha
No fair enough, just make sure you write it in own words too- they have ways to detect AI use apparently?!
No fair enough, just make sure you write it in own words too- they have ways to detect AI use apparently?!
Yeah - they do.
The Cheltenham Pentagon's latest weapon is CopyCatch. It can detect AI like I detect kebabs on the wind a mile away.
UCAS is promising to use it on every personal statement and if it detects a conflict in styles (inevitable if it's mostly your own guff, though partially AI), they sprint straight to your schools of choice like a six-year old at primary school telling the teacher that another six-year old ate his jelly.
At which point you're fu***ed.
Then it's either Buckinghamshire or Central Lancashire "medical schools".
Failing that, the Sofia Institute for Medical Stuff, Bulgaria.
But we've left the EU.
So even that one's off the table.
Reply 12
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by themeddenHi all,
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
What a levels did you do
Reply 13
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by ribbonkayla24What a levels did you do
Bio, chem, maths. I did geo as as level and dropped it
What you thinking of doing?
- The Med Den
Reply 14
Bio chem maths and further maths. Currently deciding whether to drop fm or not (doing medicine)
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by ribbonkayla24Bio chem maths and further maths. Currently deciding whether to drop fm or not (doing medicine)
If you can keep doing it would look good
But if not, bio/chem/maths is the minimum
Better to get 3A’s then struggle and one of them be a ‘B’!
BW,
- The Med Den
Reply 16
Thx
Reply 17
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by themeddenIts always had its ups and downs, since the beginning of the NHS.
Imo its best to get into something when its NOT working well, as there are more opportunities
You considering it?
Imo its best to get into something when its NOT working well, as there are more opportunities
You considering it?
Well currently, I've taken a levels set on it. Bio chem maths and further maths. So yeah I am
Reply 18
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by themeddenHi all,
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
I’m a doctor now, but I remember sitting A-levels and worrying about whether I was making the right choices for medicine. Over the next 24 hours I’ll be hanging around to answer questions — about subject choices, personal statements, admissions tests, or just what medical school is really like.
Drop a comment and I’ll do my best to help.
Hi I’m 17 I moved to the uk with no GCSEs I’ve done my maths and English would I be able to do A levels without the relavent gcses for eg ( chem phy bio )
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by Mike7472160, Band 1.
9 x Grade 9's at GCSE
3 x A* predicted (including Chem and Bio).
How am I fixed?
9 x Grade 9's at GCSE
3 x A* predicted (including Chem and Bio).
How am I fixed?
Do post your queries and stat on https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7532244 using the format in post 1 and 3 of the thread. You will be assisted there
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