Welcome to the 2nd week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of studying there! This post is written by Annabel, a 1st year graduate entry medical student at The University of Nottingham. In…
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The recent unfortunate events that we’ve seen around the world have got me to really reflect on the topic of racism, and in particular racism in healthcare. We all know racism exists very prominently in today’s society – a sad reality that’s obvious to all those who pay attention to it. Whether that’s in the…
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Welcome to the 1st week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of studying there! This post is written by ‘diaryofamedic’, a 3rd year medical student at the University of Manchester. Manchester was my…
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Applying for Medicine is a long journey of entrance exams, writing personal statements, interviews and so much more. But an even greater part of the journey is deciding where you’re going to apply to begin with! With 33 medical schools to choose from you can often feel a bit spoilt for choice and not know…
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Over the past couple of months, there has been a lot of changes to teaching, exams, and the normal academic system as you’ll all have already experienced. A lot of the face-to-face teaching methods have had to be substituted for online alternatives and this makes no exception to students who are searching for medical work…
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Here I’m going to be linking different work experience opportunities for 2020 medical school applicants that arise during lockdown. Keep checking back because I will be updating it with new opportunities I come across. If you’re wondering what else you can be doing during this lockdown, click here to read 7 things you should be…
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Hope everyone is safe and well during these unusual times. With schools closing early and everyone finding themselves with months of free time ahead I’ve had a few questions about what you can do help your medical school application. I appreciate this may be a difficult time for some of you and by no means…
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