I’ve heard from so many of you with offers and I’m so happy for you all – congratulations! The next step for you all is making those decisons of UCAS, which means I’ve been receiving tonnes of questions about Manchester, what’s PBL like? How will I know if it’ll suit me? etc etc etc. And…
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Congratulations, you’ve got an offer! You’re probably over the moon and very rightly so, but as I’m sure you already know, the application journey isn’t over just yet. There’s still things for you to be doing and here are some of those…
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Waiting for medical school offers is without doubt an incredibly stressful time. The main thing to remind yourself is that worrying will not change the outcome, so it’s not really worth the energy at all. Here are some things you should and you shouldn’t do…
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2018 has been a HUGE year for my blog, tipping the golden number of 100,000 views! I also launched my online notes shop this year, later followed up by my stationery line (Pssst…got a huge January sale going on now – Get 20% off with the code JAN20). Now it’s that time of the year…
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Over the past couple of weeks I’ve examined a few stations on 8 mock MMI circuits and essentially assessed 80-or-so students; so I thought why not give you all the view from the other side of the interview table so you can take away some tips based on what a lot of students tended not…
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My medicine interview seems like such a long time ago now looking back at it. So many huge and great things have happened since then so it’s all a little bit hazy now. But for this post I’m going to dig deep into my mind and re-tell the story of the day that eventually led…
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Many of you probably know that I study at Manchester Medical School. As part of the entrance criteria for Manchester, you have to fill in an additional “non-academic information form” (NAI). This is what will be looked at instead of your personal statement. When I was writing my NAI form I was completely in the…
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