Medicine: Alternative Careers?

Can we just stop for a moment and realise how strange a career in medicine is? Think of it this way: you probably have friends who are applying for careers other than medicine (you know, all those careers for sane people that you’d be considering if you only wanted yourself) but unlike them, you seem to have your mind made up. You’re going to be a doctor!

Medicine vs. Science Degrees

Is Medical School for me?
Inevitably there will come that moment, possibly after standing awkwardly during a day’s work experience, possibly during a particularly inspiring chemistry class, when a little voice inside you keeps nagging: “Is medical school really for me?
Read on to explore these unanswerable questions.

Am I Signing My Life Away?

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…

St Andrews

The St Andrews School of Medicine integrates knowledge of the scientific basis of medicine into a clinical context. This approach enables graduates to recognise the important contribution of science and scientific research to the practice of medicine.
St Andrews is proud to call itself “Scotland’s first university”, and Medicine was the third subject taught at St Salvator’s College.
In this article, you can find more information and facts about this college, read on!

Can’t get work experience – what do I do?

It’s very important that you plan ahead when thinking about work experience – it can take up quite a lot of your time and require preparation beforehand as well as reflection afterwards. Thinking everything through in advance will mean you can get the most out of whatever you end up doing. However, if for whatever reason this hasn’t worked out for you, and you’ve found yourself panicking at the last minute that you haven’t done enough – here are a few points of advice.

What Are The Types Of Medical Work Experience?

You’ve realised that you’d like to gain work experience and you start researching. You might ask other applicants what they do, borrow a book from the library on how to get into medicine, or simply end up browsing endless forums. In any case, a whole new world suddenly opens up before you, a world where everyone says and attaches importance to different things.

How Important Is Medical Work Experience?

It’s easy to lose sight of why what you’re doing is relevant or important to you. This can be the case especially when it comes to work experience. So why is work experience so important for Medicine?