Inspired and slightly terrified reading the 2023 entry threads and how much prep has to go into a medicine application!
DC wants to do medicine, probably in Scotland as a Scottish student, doing well at school but this doesn't seem to be enough! School has little / no experience of applications for medicine as a not fantastic state school!
Can anyone advise what work experience / volunteering they will need (currently volunteering at sports club with hope of job)
what are the spreadsheets that people talk about?
How do you strategically apply?
I have one child at uni and they just applied and got a place, this seems like a whole other level!
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Medicine 2025 entry
HGC2 · 29/03/2023 13:34
maybemedmum · 29/03/2023 16:55
Thanks @NoNotHimTheOtherOne , that's a really helpful list.
@Destiny123 Is that because of the current situation or a more general/long-term thing? It definitely concerns me that the NHS is in a very challenging situation (DH is non-clinical NHS and he and his peers all think it is as bad as it has been over their 25-year careers). The current set-up for junior doctors is awful. I guess the hope is that things will improve. The doctors I know are mostly glad they went into it, but it definitely looks like a difficult thing to do.
Destiny123 · 29/03/2023 15:44
As a current Dr I'd recommend looking at being a PA
mumsneedwine · 01/04/2023 18:13
Physicians Associate. New post in UK. Better paid than doctors for a few years and treated a lot better. But can't prescribe or order scans. Causing a few issues in some hospitals I believe.
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