Graduate Entry Medicine 2011

[ljos]

sorry- im not a nurse/arts grad but just wondering where have u decided to apply?

No need to apologise, I'm interested in talking to all the 2011 applicants on here!

I'm applying to St Georges (worked there as a student nurse on placement, curriculum seems very integrated), King's College London (studied there as a student nurse, organised staff) and Cambridge (reasonably close to London, prestigious).

Since I'm an arts graduate who has a partner with a good job in London, I'm not at all willing to move - hence only three possible choices. I'll be farmed out on rotation to all sorts of St Elsewheres anyway and that's quite enough already!

[Khush23]

Cool..good choices!
I was thinking about St Georges, but don't want to sit the GAMSAT!

xxx

[ljos]

Cool..good choices!
I was thinking about St Georges, but don't want to sit the GAMSAT!

Why not? There's nothing to lose by taking it, even if it is expensive. Studying for it is getting me used to studying maths and science in a big way again, filling in gaps in my knowledge, and helping me revise things that have been lurking in the back of my mind for various lengths of time. There's plenty of time left to prepare, and quite a lot of it is stuff that I'd be learning for the UKCAT and BMAT anyway

If I could apply to Barts or UCL then I would, but they won't take my arts degree, so that's that.

[Khush23]

I definitely want to apply to UCL and Kings which require the BMAT and UKCAT..don't particularly fancy revising for and sitting 3 different admissions tests!! Otherwise i'd have probably gone for it! xxx

[ljos]

I definitely want to apply to UCL and Kings which require the BMAT and UKCAT..don't particularly fancy revising for and sitting 3 different admissions tests!! Otherwise i'd have probably gone for it! xxx

You're already revising for two and much of the material for the third isn't exactly worlds away, plus this is setting you up for four or more years of studying and your future career. Damn right I'll study for three admissions tests!

[DLS]

Tbh, If you start revising for GAMSAT now, then about 2 weeks before your UkCAT revise for that, go back to revising for the GAMSAT and sit it into September. Then after than revise for the BMAT, it will give you more than a month, theres a bit of crossover with the GAMSAT anyway

[Khush23]

I'm happy with my choices so I think i'll just leave it.
I see why u are doing it as you're an arts grad and therefore have limited places to apply to..but in my case I can just avoid applying to SGUL. Yeah, i suppose it wouldn't be too much more work for the GAMSAT than the BMAT...

xxx

[DLS]

If I could apply to Barts or UCL then I would, but they won't take my arts degree, so that's that.

Did you do chemistry or biology at AS/A2?

[Khush23]

yeah she did Chem AS, got a C and Bio A2 got an A...it's on a previous page, i asked earlier! x

[yemijide]

I'm also applying for the GEP in 2011; I have a first class degree in biochemistry and am due to finish my masters in science with the open university in october 2010. I have a little boy (will be 1 in april). I have shadowed at a GP surgery for a week and worked in the NHS as a medical technical officer in the clinical transplantation lab at barts until I got pregnant. My care experience comes from caring for my grandparents who had diabetes and glaucoma. Looking at QMUL, St Georges and warwick as possible choices.
I would be very happy to get in as this is my second attempt at GEP.