ACCESS to medicine. Manchester College. 2012 entry...

**amyrose** · 12-07-2012, 05:32 PM

If you don't mind me asking, what are your backgrounds? I am 20, turn 21 the 7th September, I left school with only a few GCSEs, RE at A*, English Language and IT at B and Spanish at C, then went back and took four GCSEs this year in Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry with provisional results at A*. I volunteer in two hospitals and a charity shop. I've applied for Nicholls.

**bsp2k3** · 12-07-2012, 06:14 PM

I asked for a copy of the timetable from the last academic year and assuming this won't change much it was a full day on a Monday and half days on Tuesday and Wednesday (2pm - 6pm)...

Has anyone received a letter from Nicholls this morning? I'm still waiting.. :/

**Neenananna** · 13-07-2012, 01:37 AM

UKCAT booked! 20th September. I cannot stand this exam, I did it last year and there is so so much pressure on that one day.

**pacific961** · 13-07-2012, 02:15 AM

Originally Posted by freshstart

Yea...I booked mine at the same test centre just a few days back for end of Aug but I would prefer later than that but at the same time I don't want to overlap it with my studies...& like you say we can always rearrange anyway...I payed £65 for mine seems like the price changes everyday! & I better start revising for it now I've got a book for it....how are you revising pacific961?

I bought the UKCAT 600 questions book and intend to work my way through it. I'll see how I go with that and take it from there.

**pacific961** · 13-07-2012, 02:23 AM

Originally Posted by amyrose

I volunteer in two hospitals and a charity shop. I've applied for Nicholls.

Hope you don't mind me asking, but what do you do as a volunteer at the two hospitals?

What work experience or volunteering have other people got? Or plan to do? It's quite hard to get experience, isn't it?

**freshstart** · 13-07-2012, 03:06 PM

I hav applied at a hospital & currently just work at a charity

**bsp2k3** · 13-07-2012, 03:09 PM

To all who have applied at Nicholls - a letter was supposed to arrive by the end of this week, this hasn't happened so when I rang them this morning they said "oh yeah, it's changed to the end of the month now..." (given that this is about the 4th time they've changed the date we'd be notified I'm taking this with a pinch of salt). :/

**Doctorteeth** · 13-07-2012, 07:35 PM

Bloody cack this!!!!!!!

**amyrose** · 13-07-2012, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by pacific961

Hope you don't mind me asking, but what do you do as a volunteer at the two hospitals?

What work experience or volunteering have other people got? Or plan to do? It's quite hard to get experience, isn't it?

In one of them it's just chatting to lonely patients, making cups of tea, cleaning up, but it depends where you get placed. They've told me I can work different areas as I'm looking to study medicine. There are lots of little training courses available as well, like how to deal with elderly patients with no relatives and end of life care. In the A&E you don't get to do a lot as there is limited space so in there it's mostly observing and making tea!

I haven't started in the second one yet but my aunty runs the Macmillan centre there so I'm guessing I'll be talking to cancer patients, and making yet more tea. Which I don't mind, I like tea.

**pacific961** · 15-07-2012, 09:39 PM

That sounds great, Amyrose. Do you get to see plenty of consultations / examinations? Nothing wrong with making tea - whatever gets you in the door!

Did anyone get around to setting up a Facebook group?