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Graduate Entry Medicine

Ok first off ignore my sig *points down*

Does anyone know much about the graduate medical degree, I've always wanted to be a doctor, unfortunately my first yr in sixth form let me down, but I'm interested in trying my chances at the 4yr course after completing a degree in health and human sciences (yes it is accepted :p:

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Can anyone please help? x x x

Reply 1

viviki

They are more competitive than undergrad medicine so you would need very very good grades.

Reply 2

twiga

viviki

They are more competitive than undergrad medicine so you would need very very good grades.

Yeh and a lot is based on work experience which at the moment I have plenty of and have 4yrs to add to, What sort of things would I need do you think to stand out from the crowd? Are you doing medicine and if so how did you do it?

Reply 3

viviki

Nope not doing medicine but I know someone who got onto postgrad medicine and he constantly moans about how competitive it was.
He did a science degree at Warwick and got a first, not sure where hes doing his postgrad though.
I know he did work at a hospital for some time but not sure what he did.

Reply 4

twiga

I'm hoping to get volunteer work at my local NHS hospital over the summer holidays when I'm not at uni, and I've been helping out at a supervised consumption centre for drug addicts, plus all the physio work exp I did should I choose to go down that road. I want to do someting valueable with my life, not just sit behind a desk pushing paper around :smile: