Come on you moms and dads!!!!

**cakelover** · 19-11-2003, 11:48 PM

Hi there,

I'm a 33 year old mum of two, founder of MomMD.com. I'm currently interviewing for the six-year medicine courses. I have my first interview at Bristol in January. I'm coming from a marketing background and have two non-science degrees from Bristol already...
Seth

**cjb** · 19-11-2003, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Betty Boop

I have a degree in Health Studies (1st class thanks to hubbie who pushed me to work harder). I'll be applying to GEP, but I think that it will be wise to apply to at least one 5 yr (maybe Bham).

Baby is due in March.

You could apply to Leicester gep for health science grads. That's commutable(ish) from brum (although obviously not as good as getting into birmingham uni itself. i have a woman in my tutorial group who's got 2 kids and commutes from birmingham (although i have to say she does find it quite hard going, mainly cos she doesn't have much support from her family).

**chrismed** · 20-11-2003, 12:24 AM

Hi all, Hi Sethina from nontradmed usa site????? originally

I am a 48 yr old mum of two teenagers. My previous career was as a chemical engineer and I am 1st yr med student on the 5yr course at Barts and The London.Thoroughly enjoying it and get to go home when I can to see hubbie and family.

Good Luck to everybody applying this year

Chris

**Betty Boop** · 20-11-2003, 12:36 AM

Welcome everyone.

Sethina it's great you joined us. Your site Mommd is brilliant. How did you start it? How many memebers do you now have? How do you run the site, eg, do you have volunteers? Your input to this forum would be fantastic. How do moms in the USA manage a career in medicine, med school? There are alot of issues and challenges that parents like us face. Maybe you can begin by raising some of these issues by posting a discussion topic.

cjb, I will be applying to leicester GEP. I'm not sure about the commute though. In my final year at uni, I was commuting from Loughborough to Brum everyday and that was a killer. We'd probably end up moving there if I was accepted at the med school. I like Leicester. I used to spend my weekends there with friends when I was living in L'borough.

Tangliss, you know how it is with kids, you hardly get to relax. I try and study when they are at nursery or when they go to bed a 7pm sharp! Otherwise, I get their nanny to take them out to play in the garden for an hour or so.

**chrismed** · 20-11-2003, 12:42 AM

spooky....I did my degree in Loughborough

**cakelover** · 20-11-2003, 12:52 AM

Thanks for the comments. MomMD has been around for 4 years, we have 6000 members and get 70,000 visits per month. I have around 22 volunteers. MomMD has been in various publications (mostly US based, Wall St Journal, Monster.com, WebMD, etc) but we were in The New Statesman a while ago. It is a TON of work and one reason why my medical aspirations have been slow to come. I'm definitely looking to do something similar in the UK, it is a lot of work though. I'd be more than happy to start some discussions here too. My family and I are actively trying to move back home (I'm looking for a job

in case the medicine thing doesn't work out, or it does and I need more money to pay for it!!). I'm in Los Angeles and had enough, want to get the kids home. Since I first started applying in the UK (I've on my second round) I've noticed a big change, I was told not to bother and now last year got two interviews out of four (which I was please with). I wasn't able to interview last year because my husband got cancer - he's fine now. Look forward to being part of this!
Seth

**Betty Boop** · 20-11-2003, 12:52 AM

Tangliss we are renting our house out. We're lucky we have tenants, but on the downside, the manageing agents have been a nightmare.

Chrismed, isn't it a small world. I lived in L'borough between 1999-2000 because my hubbie was doing his PhD at L'borough Uni. I was commuting to UCE Bham for my final year.

**Dr Veryniceman** · 20-11-2003, 04:10 AM

Hello people,
I'm 25 and first year med student at Manchester Uni and also a prospective parent! My gorgeous wife is expecting (March) and will be our first child. I've always wanted children so cannot wait 5 years!

Its encouraging to see more parent-medics-applicants and I shall be visiting this site more often to seek advice :wink:

So any advice on parenthood will be most welcome in advance!!!!

Chao

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**Thalie** · 20-11-2003, 05:27 AM

Hello to you all

I 'm the mum of a 7 year old and I'm in my 1st year at UEA - by the way I hear that the Law school is really good here.

I'm technically a single mother - a bit more complicated than that but I will spare you the details :wink: - and yes sometimes childcare is an issue, I just got home from a really interesting session at UEA about neuro programming and decided - boo me! :twisted: that as I could not afford a babysitter, I'll take him along with me. He was well behaved and had fun but went to bed REALLY late as a result. And yes, I feel bad about this but I don't do this very often.

It's really hard juggling the kid and the studies, but so far I've survived

Thanks for this forum I think this is a really good idea.

**Thalie** · 20-11-2003, 05:34 AM

[quote="Betty Boop"]Tangliss we are renting our house out. We're lucky we have tenants, but on the downside, the manageing agents have been a nightmare.
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Just to let you know, I've had the very same nightmare; wordened by the fact that the tenants are incredibly demanding. They got me to get a decorator in just because of single hand print on the wall :cry:

I do feel extremely privileged to be a house owner though