Medical Admissions

I suppose it’s my own fault for making the phone call. I know I wanted to know so badly what it was, but in a lot of ways, I’d rather have found out via Track, if you know what I mean? It’s not official yet, but I was told “it doesn’t look like you will be [...]

Ok, so, I’ve just got my results, and how am I feeling? To be honest with you, pretty shit, actually. As a medical applicant, you’ll know that you need AAB, including Chemistry, to study medicine almost anywhere in the UK. We...

I personally never ask candidates about history of medicine as I think it’s slightly unfair and I’m not sure what relevance it has to a medical student applicant; however, many older interviewers love asking about history of medicine and debate that it shows a commitment to the career, a wider rea...

When during my medical school interview I was asked “Why do you want to be a doctor?” I didn’t reply “cos I wanna get paid loads of money”… but I thought it! However, if you do want to make buckets full of cash perhaps medicine isn’t the right career for you. It’s true that medicine [...]

Most of you reading this will be in the middle of yet another stressful A Level exam period, whether you’re in Year 12 doing the “new” AS Modules for the first time, or in Year 13 doing A2 modules and possibly the legacy AS resits. My college caused a bit of controversy last year, when [...]

Don’t put all of your eggs into one basket Well, I didn’t. My application started out being spread evenly between four good medical schools. Th...

As you know by reading this, I’ve been recently rejected by BSMS and Sheffield. Naturally, this is quite disheartening, and can make me feel a bit low at times. Being a resiliant chappy, I have carried on and found a brilliant coping method. ...

This time I was sitting at home, on my bed. My Mum was next to me, working away on her desk (the room is shared between my and her office because I’m not often home). My phone buzzed with a new email, and again I flicked it open - “track@ucas.ac.uk”. I told my Mum that again [...]

I know I’m not the only applicant out there who’s resitting Chemistry this year - apparently last year was an incredibly bad year for AS Chemistry across the country! My Xmas holiday from college was started with some wonderful “paper-based presents” courtesy of the Chemistry Department. Past e...

I was sitting in KFC in the Metro Centre last night, when my phone buzzed with a new email notification. I have all of my MedicalAdmissions.co.uk email and my important personal email sent to my phone, as well as the usual facebook notifications...

I’ve just had a quick look at one of our commentor’s blogs, and I like it. So, off you go and visit http://www.medaholic.com/ If I like things, I’ll put them on my blog, so you can like them too… If you have something you want me to like, comment in a sensible fashion, and I’ll check out [...]

As some of you will have no doubt seen these last few days, I’ve been doing some marketing for MedicalAdmissions.co.uk in various online forums for Medicine Applicants. This has also served another useful purpose. ...

Hi! I’m Sarah and I’m going to University this October. Not to read Medicine, but to read Chemistry.In the end, I felt thatChemistry was more appropriate for the type of career path I wanted to follow. Th...

Being a doctor is tiring and Im afraid to say a little less fun than expected. My bleep never stops. I start work at 8am every morning and my bleep usually goes off before I’ve taken my coat off, adjusted my tie, and had my morning wee. It then goes off every five - ten [...]