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How many A-levels should I take for Medicine, which subjects should I choose and what grades do I need?
Does this sound familiar?
Fortunately, you are not required to read the minds of medical school Admissions Tutors. Medical schools will state on their website the required A-level grades, but not necessarily which subjects they should all be in and how many you should take.
Here’s everything you need to know about the A-levels required to become a doctor.
This article is going to be a guide to all the basic information you will need to know as you apply, which we hope will make the whole process much easier for you.
This is part of a series where we share successful Medicine Personal Statements. Here’s Samah’s Graduate Entry Medicine Personal Statement as referenced in the guide and Q&A video with Ali Abdaal below. Enjoy!
The penultimate summer as a student at school can be a busy one for those applying to medicine. Considering you have to have your application sorted by mid-October, medical applicants have less time than the majority of other university applicants. To save yourself from rushing once September comes round, we have devised five recommendations of how you can best utilise your summer before Year 13 to make your life easier and application stronger.
In this article, we present five questions that you should consider asking whilst at a medical school open days to get a better idea about the University and the course as a whole.
With the backlog of exams and interviews, applicants often overlook the importance of recent medical news. What if you were asked, “Tell me where you think the future of medicine is going,” a popular question among interviewers? Let’s see how you could prove to the interviewers that you can give your best version and solutions!
A niche population of students has a unique set of challenges when applied to medical school: let’s look at how we can make them a smaller problem.
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an active teaching style in which students are at the centre of their own learning. Organised in a series of sessions, students learn about a topic through the experience of solving ‘problems’ they encounter in a scenario (known as triggers).
Read on to find out what they are all about!
The outcome that all aspiring medical students fear – you have applied for medicine, but you have not received an offer.
As you well know, medicine is extremely competitive and, unfortunately, quite a few people will be in your shoes.
But it’s important to know that this doesn’t mean you won’t have a chance.
By now you’ll have been told a hundred times about how big of a commitment it is to study medicine and how much you’ll need to sacrifice to enter the industry. This isn’t untrue, but a lot of what people tell you will make you wonder if you’re making a mistake – if you’re signing your life away…
How many A-levels should I take for Medicine, which subjects should I choose and what grades do I need?
Does this sound familiar?
Fortunately, you are not required to read the minds of medical school Admissions Tutors. Medical schools will state on their website the required A-level grades, but not necessarily which subjects they should all be in and how many you should take.
Here’s everything you need to know about the A-levels required to become a doctor.
This article is going to be a guide to all the basic information you will need to know as you apply, which we hope will make the whole process much easier for you.
This is part of a series where we share successful Medicine Personal Statements. Here’s Samah’s Graduate Entry Medicine Personal Statement as referenced in the guide and Q&A video with Ali Abdaal below. Enjoy!
The penultimate summer as a student at school can be a busy one for those applying to medicine. Considering you have to have your application sorted by mid-October, medical applicants have less time than the majority of other university applicants. To save yourself from rushing once September comes round, we have devised five recommendations of how you can best utilise your summer before Year 13 to make your life easier and application stronger.
In this article, we present five questions that you should consider asking whilst at a medical school open days to get a better idea about the University and the course as a whole.
With the backlog of exams and interviews, applicants often overlook the importance of recent medical news. What if you were asked, “Tell me where you think the future of medicine is going,” a popular question among interviewers? Let’s see how you could prove to the interviewers that you can give your best version and solutions!
A niche population of students has a unique set of challenges when applied to medical school: let’s look at how we can make them a smaller problem.
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an active teaching style in which students are at the centre of their own learning. Organised in a series of sessions, students learn about a topic through the experience of solving ‘problems’ they encounter in a scenario (known as triggers).
Read on to find out what they are all about!
The outcome that all aspiring medical students fear – you have applied for medicine, but you have not received an offer.
As you well know, medicine is extremely competitive and, unfortunately, quite a few people will be in your shoes.
But it’s important to know that this doesn’t mean you won’t have a chance.
By now you’ll have been told a hundred times about how big of a commitment it is to study medicine and how much you’ll need to sacrifice to enter the industry. This isn’t untrue, but a lot of what people tell you will make you wonder if you’re making a mistake – if you’re signing your life away…
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