2022-02-20 18:54
This is possibly the longest time I’ve neglected this blog…whoops! My intercalation year has been over for quite few months now. So, let’s talk a little more about this ye… Read More
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2021-02-19 12:00
This is a guest post by Dr.Sam El Mais, M.D; a British doctor who graduated from Craivo Medical University in Romana and specialised in Internal Medicine.
What is it like to study in Euro… Read More
2020-12-31 20:56
This year been insane. When I think back to the beginning of the year it completely baffles me that I would have never been able to see the year ending the way it is. A lot happened this yea… Read More
2020-12-15 21:11
It’s been a while and now we’re knee-deep into the new academic year. I’ve been super busy with a lot of different projects, but I thought it was about time I took a moment… Read More
2020-09-13 17:03
Many of you will have already sat your UCAT. Hopefully you’ll have all achieved the scores you were hoping for, but if not, don’t worry! Here are some top tips on what to do… Read More
2020-08-31 12:03
Welcome to the 15th (and final) week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the… Read More
2020-08-31 12:02
Welcome to the 15th (and final) week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the… Read More
2020-08-31 12:01
Welcome to the 15th (and final) week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the… Read More
2020-08-31 12:00
Welcome to the 15th (and final) week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the… Read More
2020-08-24 12:03
Welcome to the 14th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-24 12:02
Welcome to the 14th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-24 12:01
Welcome to the 14th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-24 12:00
Welcome to the 14th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-22 15:49
I wrote a post just like this when I finished my first year of of medical school, sharing some “quotes” of common things I had heard said throughout the year – read that po… Read More
2020-08-17 12:03
Welcome to the 12th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-17 12:02
Welcome to the 12th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-17 12:01
Welcome to the 12th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-17 12:00
Welcome to the 12th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-10 12:02
Welcome to the 11th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-10 12:01
Welcome to the 11th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-10 12:00
Welcome to the 11th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-03 12:02
Welcome to the 10th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-03 12:01
Welcome to the 10th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-08-03 12:00
Welcome to the 10th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities o… Read More
2020-07-27 12:02
Welcome to the 9th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-27 12:01
Welcome to the 9th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-27 12:00
Welcome to the 9th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-25 12:00
This is guest post written by Alexa, a soon-to-be final year medical student who runs A Med Student’s Journey.
There are so many incredible online resources out there for medical st… Read More
2020-07-20 12:02
Welcome to the 8th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-20 12:01
Welcome to the 8th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-20 12:00
Welcome to the 8th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-19 13:44
2020-07-19 09:45
Writing a personal statement for your Medicine application can feel like a huge mountain of a task and a lot of students tend not to know where to start. There are actually lots of different… Read More
2020-07-13 12:01
Welcome to the 7th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-13 12:00
Welcome to the 7th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-06 12:03
Welcome to the 6th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-06 12:01
Welcome to the 6th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-06 12:00
Welcome to the 6th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-07-05 15:05
This is going to be a a huge collection of UCAT resources that are out there for this year’s UCAT takers. I know the internet can be a minefield of resources so I’ve picked out s… Read More
2020-06-29 12:01
Welcome to the 5th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-29 12:00
Welcome to the 5th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-22 12:02
Welcome to the 4th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-22 12:01
Welcome to the 4th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-22 12:00
Welcome to the 4th week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
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2020-06-22 03:47
2020-06-19 02:15
In my last blog post I announced that I’ve made the decision to intercalate in the next academic year and do a Masters in Healthcare Ethics and Law. The response to this has been incre… Read More
2020-06-17 12:25
Yesterday I found out my place to intercalate for the next academic year had been confirmed – and of course I was absolutely elated!
Intercalation definitely feels like the right d… Read More
2020-06-15 12:00
Welcome to the 3rd week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-13 14:28
I recently received a question about medical EPQ question ideas so here I am writing this blog post. If you read the few posts I wrote about the EPQ right after I had done it I did mention I… Read More
2020-06-08 12:01
Welcome to the 2nd week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-08 12:00
Welcome to the 2nd week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-06-07 03:06
2020-06-06 12:43
The recent unfortunate events that we’ve seen around the world have got me to really reflect on the topic of racism, and in particular racism in healthcare. We all know racism exists v… Read More
2020-06-01 12:00
Welcome to the 1st week of the Virtual Medicine Open Day: giving you an insight into each of the UK medical schools and the opportunity to ask current medical students about the realities of… Read More
2020-05-31 12:50
Applying for Medicine is a long journey of entrance exams, writing personal statements, interviews and so much more. But an even greater part of the journey is deciding where you’re go… Read More
2020-05-21 11:56
Here we are – the first official “Blogging For Beginners” advice post has made it out there. I did take my sweet time to get this put up because, as I’ll share with y… Read More
2020-05-16 13:29
Over the past couple of months, there has been a lot of changes to teaching, exams, and the normal academic system as you’ll all have already experienced. A lot of the face-to-face tea… Read More
2020-05-11 17:24
The 5th and FINAL placement of third year that I have to tell you all about! This block was actually very nice and relaxed which was good because with exams starting to loom over us there wa… Read More
2020-05-08 21:52
2020-05-05 13:50
I will be checking personal statements for medical school applicants for 2021 entry. I provided this service for applicants for the previous two admissions cycles and I received a huge deman… Read More
2020-04-30 01:05
Here I’m going to linking different work experience opportunities for 2020 medical school applicants that arise during lockdown. Keep checking back because I will be updating it with n… Read More
2020-04-27 17:16
As many of you probably know, it’s been over 5 years since I first launched this blog, which to me seems crazy, it doesn’t feel like it has been so long! I often get questions ab… Read More
2020-04-21 18:13
The penultimate block of 3rd year I have to tell you all about!
Respiratory was another 4 week block and it kind of surprised me seeing this side of Medicine. I would have thought di… Read More
2020-04-06 17:24
Hope everyone is safe and well during these unusual times. With schools closing early and everyone finding themselves with months of free time ahead I’ve had a few questions about what… Read More
2020-04-03 22:40
2020-03-28 20:15
Despite 3rd year being officially over, done, finished, finito…I still have 3 more blocks to tell you all about! And then after that I have some more fun blog posts planned, so keep r… Read More
2020-03-18 22:05
The third year of medical school came to a very abrupt halt yesterday. This whole Coronavirus crisis I know is having so many huge implications on so many things. It’s shocking how som… Read More
2020-02-10 09:51
As you all know moving in to the 3rd of year of Medicine means I’ve now stepped in to the realm of clinical Medicine which if you read my post from the beginning of the year you would… Read More
2020-02-09 03:55
2020-01-30 22:46
Just to keep up with the theme, the post giving an overview of my 2nd block is late too (seeing as I’ve just started my 4th). My second block was Cardiology and I have to say I really… Read More
2020-01-09 01:31
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2020-01-01 13:24
End-of-year posts have become quite a tradition on this blog, so here’s this year’s! This year has been e-v-e-n-t-f-u-l, so many things have happened. I’ve had so SO many n… Read More
2019-12-10 13:00
My Medical School interviews were 3 years ago now which sounds like a long time ago, but the period of time leading up to those interviews and the waiting game before hearing back with offer… Read More
2019-12-01 17:35
You don’t have to have been following me for long to know that I do like putting together those “typical timetable” and “a week in the life of a med student”. I… Read More
2019-09-27 17:53
I’ve disappeared with not so much of a puff because third year has been a whirlwind so far. So much, so different, exhausting, yet exhilarating. We’ve had 3 weeks of third year n… Read More
2019-09-07 13:10
A huge congratulations to everyone who has made it and it going to be starting medical school this September. Whilst this is surely going to be incredibly exciting for you all, there’s… Read More
2019-08-30 12:00
One of the things I did a lot when I was applying for Medicine was read up on a health topic and then create a blog post to help me reflect on it properly and gather my thoughts together. A… Read More
2019-08-12 12:00
Writing a personal statement is hard, there’s no denying that. You have those 4,000 limited characters to convince someone that you do really want to study Medicine, show them you unde… Read More
2019-08-04 11:40
Going into clinical years, I feel as though this needs it’s own blog post since I wrote about my feelings when starting uni and this is a new beginning all together. Whenever I think a… Read More
2019-07-27 00:22
I will be checking personal statements for medical school applicants for 2020 entry. I provided this service for applicants for the previous admissions cycle and I received a huge demand an… Read More
2019-07-23 14:45
I always thought there would be a definitive moment that I’d get my first stethoscope. I’ve never been one to jump the gun so I didn’t buy a stethoscope the moment I got in… Read More
2019-07-18 21:30
PEP stands for Personal Excellence Pathway and it’s essentially a research project that you have to do each year at Manchester. The reason why I’m writing about it today is becau… Read More
2019-07-08 12:00
How are you examined? When are your exams? Do you have to write essays? All questions that I get asked time and time again…so guess what (I’m sure you know the drill by now) I&r&hell…Read More
2019-06-30 12:10
The first chunk of medical school is over, which does indeed bring with it tons of reflection on tons of different things. These 2 years have been a busy, busy and I’ve learnt an awful… Read More
2019-06-22 12:00
Choosing a medical school is the very first step of the long journey of applying for Medicine. Whether you have already given this some thought or you’ve not yet started… Read More
2019-06-12 16:24
Last year I shared my first year timetable, so this year it’s about time I did the same with my second year timetable! Just like last year, each week the timetable is slightly differen… Read More
2019-04-04 14:22
Preparing for A-level exams doesn’t have to be difficult. It’s so easy to feel bewildered by the tonnes of different techniques and strategies floating around. But here&rsq&hell…Read More
2019-03-14 20:18
I’ve heard from so many of you with offers and I’m so happy for you all – congratulations! The next step for you all is making those decisons of UCAS, which means I’v… Read More
2019-02-22 15:38
Congratulations, you’ve got an offer! You’re probably over the moon and very rightly so, but as I’m sure you already know, the application journey isn’t over just yet… Read More
2019-02-14 18:45
Waiting for medical school offers is without doubt an incredibly stressful time. The main thing to remind yourself is that worrying will not change the outcome, so it’s not really… Read More
2019-02-05 12:45
This is a guest post written by Jasmine, a first year medical student.
Having an illness in the family is so difficult at any time in your life, and there’s often a lot of worry and un… Read More
2019-01-26 20:46
Once you start medical school, right from the beginning of Semester 1 you start to hear these terrible rumours about “Semester 3”. Now, I’m presuming this is pretty much ac… Read More
2018-12-31 19:00
2018 has been a HUGE year for my blog, tipping the golden number of 100,000 views! I also launched my online notes shop this year, later followed up by my stationery line (Pssst…got a… Read More
2018-12-15 22:00
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve examined a few stations on 8 mock MMI circuits and essentially assessed 80-or-so students; so I thought why not give you all the view from the other… Read More
2018-12-07 12:00
8:00 am – Woke up, got ready, had breakfast and then set out for my first 9 am start of this year.
9:00 am – The first time I’ve had 2 communication sessions in 1 we… Read More
2018-12-06 12:00
8:00 am – Tried to get some Anatomy work in ahead of my session today. I focussed on drawing up a little summary for the blood supply to the leg.
11:00 am – Had a His… Read More
2018-12-05 12:00
6:30 am – Woke up early today as I have a hospital placement which I need to get to by 9!
9:00 am – Arrived at the hospital and the placement kicked off with a bit a discu… Read More
2018-12-04 12:00
7:00 am – Woke up (tired!), but tried to get some Anatomy done. I managed to finish covering the bones and their landmarks, which wasn’t too bad – bones never are, it&rsquo&hell…Read More
2018-12-03 12:00
7:00 am – Woke up, packed my stuff up and managed to quickly have some breakfast before it was time to leave the house. I go home every weekend, and since I don’t have an early s… Read More
2018-11-24 23:09
My medicine interview seems like such a long time ago now looking back at it. So many huge and great things have happened since then so it’s all a little bit hazy now. But for this pos… Read More
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