Law and Medicine

So I've been thinking of starting blogging for a while, In a similar way to the recent(ish) BBC series "doctors 20 years on" I thought it would be quite fun to try and catalogue the triumphs and failures to my hopeful eventual entry into med school.

So a a bit about me to start off with. I did a law degree, I'm now doing the legal practice course (LPC) this is a one year boring course teaching me how to fill in forms and draft contracts. Pretty boring!
Thankfully we've done with the compulsory subjects and are now well into the elective term so I have more interesting subjects like Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence to deal with!

When this year is over I have a bit of a summer and then I start training in a law firm for the next two years, becoming a fully qualified solicitor in summer 2010.

My plan is as follows:
Autumn 08 - apply for med schools (1st try), currently planning on Soton bm4, Soton bm5, UAE and HYMS. These will all be deferred entries so that my entry point will be october 2010 which fits in nicely.
These are subject to change!

Jan-April 09 Interviews etc

If I get offers at this stage, great, but if not, I have another years worth of applications up my sleeve!

So then autumn 09 - more applications, I doubt I'd apply for both of the soton courses in the 2nd year of applications as they're just so competetive, haven't really thought that far ahead yet, I have the first year to go first!

Personal statement writing is going quite slowly as I have what feels like (and literally is!) months before it needs to be ready, but uncharacteristically I'm trying to get it sorted early! I've been struggling with the introductory paragraph for a bit, but when i was struggling to sleep a few nights ago, I had a flash of inspiration which I may well use!

Aside from that, work experience, I've been working part time as a bank HCA since december last year and intend to carry that on for as long as I can in my new job, doing weekend shifts etc.
On top of that, following spending the best part of two evenings reading Dr Claytons blog (heh!) I'm now considering doing something to do with St Johns ambulance, however I doubt that will happen until late this summer as its probably better I do it where I'm going to be working for two years, rather than where I'm living for the next 2 months!

This is probably enough now for my first blog, I have two lectures later today Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (henceforth this will become PICN) and Intellectual Property (IP) which hopefully will be interesting.

Let me know what you thought of this entry, with a bit of luck and encouragement I'll keep this going for the next 7 years or so charting my path through law and into medicine.