Where do you think the future of Medicine is going?

With exams and interviews piling up, applicants often overlook the importance of recent medical news. What if you were given this question “Tell me about where you think the future of Medicine is going.”, a rather popular question among interviewers? Let’s see how one could potentially show the interviewers that.

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!

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.

5 Top Tips For Writing Your Personal Statement

Read through our 5 vital tips that you will need to perfect your Personal Statement.

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.

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.

‘Fat but fit’ – From Theory to Myth

Findings from University of Birmingham presented this week provided evidence to suggest that the possibility of being ‘fat but fit’ is all but a myth.
The findings, presented the European Congress on Obesity in Portugal, suggested that people who are obese are at an increased risk of heart failure and stroke without the prior warnings of hypertension and diabetes.

Interleaving : An Effective Study Technique

Revising is tough, no matter what it is you’re revising for. There are tonnes of study techniques out there, but which one is the most effective? In this guide, we’ll explore one possible option and see if it could help you with your preparation.