Graduate Entry to Medicine

Is medicine for me?

Arranging some work experience is probably the best way to answer that question.  ‘How to get into graduate entry medicine’ (2009) has a particularly good chapter on looking for relevant work experience.

NHS Careers
Medical Careers

Choosing a course

UCAS 
Search for both 4yr and the 5yr courses

Read ‘The medical school application guide for graduate applicants to medical schools in the UK & Ireland’, 2009

Several of the books listed below include chapters on ‘choosing a medical school’

Tests

GAMSAT 
Sit in September in order to start the following autumn (registration deadline is in August)

UKCAT
Sit before beginning of October to start the following autumn (registration deadline is in September)

BMAT 
Sit in November in order to start the following autumn (registration deadline is in September)

Read ‘GAMSAT, Sample Questions’, ‘GAMSAT, Practice Test’ and ‘GAMSAT, Practice Questions’ (all 2008)

Read ‘Passing the UK clinical aptitude test and BMAT’, 2008

Several of the books listed below include chapters on ‘tests’

Applications

Example Personal Statement 1
Example Personal Statement 2
Example Personal Statement 3
Example Personal Statement 4
Example Personal Statement 5 

Several of the books listed below include chapters on ‘the application process’.

The deadline for applications is 15th October to start the following autumn.

Interviews

Example Interview Questions

Read ‘Succeeding in your medical school interview’, 2009

Read ‘Medical school interviews’, 2007

Several of the books listed below include chapters on ‘medical school interviews’

Resources

  • Into Medicine – Positive Experiences of Disabled People, SKILL, 2007
  • Succeeding in Your Medical School Interview, Matt Green et al, 2009
  • The Medical School Application Guide for Graduate Applicants, Dibah Jiva et al, 2009
  • How to Get Into Graduate Entry Medicine, Ben Carey et al, 2009
  • Passing the UK Clinical Aptitude Test and BMAT, Felicity Taylor et al, 2008
  • GAMSAT Practice Test, 2007
  • GAMSAT Sample Questions, 2008
  • GAMSAT Practice Questions, 2008
  • Learning Medicine, Peter Richards et al, 2006
  • The Medical School Career Handbook, Elizabeth Cottrell et al, 2006
  • Getting into Medical School, Simon Horner et al, 2010
  • Medical School Interviews, George Lee et al, 2007
  • How to Get a Job in Medicine, Adam Poole, 2005
  • A Career in Medicine: Do you have what it takes?, Rameen Shakur, 2007
  • Get into Medical School: Write the Perfect Personal Statement, Olivier Picard et al, 2010
  • Get into Medical School: 600 UKCAT Practice Questions, Olivier Picard et al, 2010
  • The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor, Adrian Blundell et al, 2007
  • So You Want to Be a Brain Surgeon, Simon Eccles et al, 2009