need advice on applying to edinburgh: PLEASE LOOK.

[aspirant doc]

It's more about quality than quantity. Listing what you've done, how much, where, when etc does not score points. Explaining how your experiences in hospital, infirmary, care home, fundraising etc helps you understand your future role as a doctor in terms of doctor/patient communication, doctors as team players, doctors as listeners, multidisciplinary care etc is what score points. It's what you have learnt from it, and how you see yourself in the light of what you've learnt from it that counts.

As a reasonable hint, look at their prospectus, find the 6 or 7 characterisitcs they are after, and write ypur UCAS PS so that you gets ticks in the boxes for those characteristics, rather than explaining what you've done.

Given your list, providng you writre them up the right way, there's no reason why you are not in with a good chance.

Good luck.

[*pink*]

Hiya!

Thanks for replying.

Yeh,In my PS, I think i have mainly focused on what i have learned especially skills and qualities such as teamwork, leadership, patience, communication, integrity etc . .Also i spoke about things i appreciated - multi-discplinary effort, technological advances etc. Does that sound okay???? Im a bit worried about not telling them enough about what i actually did. I hope ive done enough to get in lolz I felt that my extra cirricular was lacking a bit but tried to make the most of what i have done.

I was at the edin open day and absolutely fell in love with the city, its soo pretty! I really hope i get in. When do edin start giving offers? I know that there arnt interviews, so does that mean they give offers sooner or do they spend extra time looking at ur PS??

reply soon
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[aspirant doc]

To be honest I don't know when they start giving offers, but there's no reason for it to be early, and I'm sure it's not before January.

[*pink*]

okay thanks! Are you enjoying the course at Edin ??