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The BEST for Graduate Entry Medicine
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53 medical courses open to you You have a degree and want to study medicine? We help you realise your dream. You will find for each 53 medical courses, the course lengths, competition, admissions requirements, selection processes, admissions statistics, finances and much more. We have spent over 1,000 hours collecting all of this information to save you valuable time during this busy period. |
Insider's Tips Get more detailed information than you will find online - all 53 medical courses are contacted by phone or email or personal visit to get the latest information. You also get overviews, advice and summary tables compiled by the authors, who successfully completed the process of admission and helped many others in the last 5 years. |
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Writing a successful personal statement You will find not only great advice and tips, but more importantly plenty of real successful personal statement extracts, fully commented on, for you to read and learn from. You will also find some draft and improved versions to help you grasp some of the tricks that helps one write with style and concision. |
Statistics and selection ratios For each medical school we give you how many students applied, how many interviewed, how many enrolled, and what is the selection ratio. All 53 selection ratios are provided in summary tables so you can quickly compare your courses of interest at a glance. |
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Don't panic - Interviews explained Step by step guide to what the schools are looking for, how to prepare and how to convey your arguments within a good structure. Also find tips on style, idea and content with answers from successful applicants to questions like "What would you do if you go to work and one of your colleagues smells like alcohol" and "What do you think of abortion". Most frequently asked questions are also explored in great depth. |
3 exams - 3 dedicated sections Learn about GAMSAT, UKCAT, BMAT structure, marking, preparation - over 60 resources covered with associated costs for each including options for books, courses, tutoring, online materials, practice tests and more. |
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Find out your chances We essentialy help you calculate your chances of getting into different programs based on your applicant profile. This will help you not miss out on courses where you may have a greater chance of admission and not waste time and money applying to places where your file is not eligible. |
Costs and funding With the special financing options available to graduate students in the UK, we have included how students can finance their education - NHS bursaries and the different SLC loans.
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Content Details (Selected Sections)
All 53 programs fully covered - Graduate Entry medicine normally refers to fast track, NHS funded, 4 year programs. Other graduate entry books in the market only cover the sixteen 4 year Graduate Entry Medicine courses in the UK. The MSAG Graduate Entry Medicine fully covers those 4 year programs but also covers the twenty seven 5 year programs and ten 6 year programs that graduate applicants are eligible for. This makes this guidebook the most complete guidebook for graduate applicants, covering a total of 53 medical courses.
What are your chances section - This is a unique section not available in any other guidebook or online. It allows you to find out which medical programs may give better consideration for someone with your academic and non academic profile. For example, it will say "find out your chances if you do not have a 2:1 in your undergraduate degree" and then give you the list and exact policies of all medical schools that may consider applicants who do not have a 2:1 in their undergraduate degree. In the same way, you will find a section on "find out your chances with a low GAMSAT", "find out your chances with no healthcare experience", "find out your chances with a low UKCAT", etc.
Entrance statistics - This new section has been added taking into account feedback from previous editions. Competitiveness is not the only criteria to consider when choosing where to apply but it is an important one. In the MSAG Graduate Entry Medicine 2012-2013, you will find the admissions ratio for each of the 53 medical programs in the UK open to graduate applicants. The summary tables make it very easy to scan through the admissions ratio for each program at a glance.
School by School section - This is one of the most used sections in the guidebook by prospective applicants. We have summarised in a few pages for each universities, all the key information that you may want to consider in choosing where to apply. This includes for each medical program: Admissions policies, selection formulae, entrance statistics, course requirements, degree requirements, entrance examination requirements, interview structure and interview information, extra tips, tuition fees and contact details.
Medical course structures - This is also a new section added after receiving feedback from previous editions. Graduate Entry Programs vary greatly in teaching style. Some medical schools use traditional teaching method with a strong lecture based program while others have a Problem Based Learning approach (PBL). The details of the different teaching methods are explained and you will also find a very useful summary table which details the teaching style of every Graduate Entry Program.
Personal statement writing and Interview preparation - Other guidebooks to Graduate Entry Medicine in the market focus on the medical programs while giving some advice on personal statement writing and interview preparation. Our guidebook has full information on the programs as described above, but also have a full section on personal statement writing and another complete section on interview preparation. You will find not only advice and tips, but more importantly plenty of real personal statement extracts fully commented on for you to read and learn. The interview section discusses what admission committees are looking for in the interview, provides information on the new MMI format used at several schools, and gives several example answers from successful applicants to questions like "What would you do if you go to work and one of your colleagues smells like alcohol" and "What do you think of abortion". Interview preparation is a key part of the application, and unsuccessful applicants frequently gain admission the following year by preparing better for their interviews. The section teaches applicants how to approach interview questions, and prepares students by discussing many of the most frequently asked interview questions.
These sections are not short add-ons to the main book but instead form a big part of it and are complete enough that they could constitute a separate book.
GAMSAT, UKCAT and BMAT sections - In the MSAG Graduate Entry Medicine 2012-2013, you will find detailed information about how each university uses the GAMSAT, the UKCAT and/or the BMAT, including previous cutoff scores for the medical schools that set strict cutoffs. This is very different for each university and is thus an important consideration when deciding where to apply. You will also find amongst other tips a great deal of information about resources to help you prepare for these exams including courses, home study packages, private tutoring, books, practice questions and mock exams. This includes over 60 options that you have to help you prepare, giving you a description of each resource, as well as the cost of purchase.
To find out more about other sections of the MSAG Graduate Entry Medicine 2012-2013, to download the table of contents or buy the guidebook, please visit: MSAG Graduate Entry Medicine 2012-2013.
Where can you find more information?
You may browse our website or click on the links below to find out more about the following
- The list of all available programs for Graduate applicants
- The application process - summary
- The admissions requirements
- The admissions statistics
- For more information, to view the table of contents or buy the guidebook: The Medical School Application Guide - Graduate Entry Medicine 2012-2013 guidebook
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