5 things to consider when applying to medical school

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!

What Are Your Biggest Weaknesses?

In my experience, this is an all-too-common Interview question. Whether it’s to trip you up, or see if you’ve ever done any introspection, or just to see how honest you are, the question is an easy one to falter on.

4 Tips To Prepare For Your Medicine Interview!

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Before commencing this article, an obvious but important point to make would be that all medical schools have different ways in which they conduct their interviews, and the combination of medical schools that you have applied to will determine the type of preparation you will have to do.
This article will give you four ways that my friends and I went about researching and preparing for our interviews!

Postgraduate Work Experience

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.

Sport and Exercise: Changing the NHS to Meet Patient Demand

Whilst some specialties of medicine have been in existence since the Ancient Egyptians, new fields must arise due to a change in disease burden. The field of Sport and Exercise medicine (SEM) is a prime example of how the Health service provided to the public had to adapt to meet a change in patient demand.

Hepatitis C – The Miracle Drug

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Today we will be tackling the topic of hepatitis C drugs to give you an idea of the issues around miracle drugs, rationing and manufacturing.

The case of Ian Paterson

Ian Paterson was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday: Not only was he found guilty of performing unnecessary mastectomies on his patients by exaggerating symptoms when less invasive procedures could have been chosen, but he was also found to be performing a dangerous procedure that he invented…
Read the full article to understand the full story.

Getting the most out of Full Body Dissection

Although compulsory, whole-body cadaver dissection is becoming increasingly rare in UK medical schools. However, it is still considered an essential and enriching experience for many doctors and students.
It allows you to appreciate the spatial arrangement of the body’s organs and systems in relation to each other and allows you to begin to develop manual dexterity skills, which are an important foundation for many medical fields.