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GAMSAT/INTERVIEW materials for sale
Help...i need your advise, dropped out of med school due to ill health, re-applying
Entry to Medicine in UK compared to Spain

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 02:20 AM PDT

Items for sale - all books in great condition.

Multiple Mini Interviews (MMI) for Medical School by Dawn Sellars - definitely helped me get an offer from Nottingham - my first MMI £7.00 + £3.00 p&p

Medical School Interviews All You Need To Know THE KNOWLEDGE Dr Mona Koona - great for general info on medical history, NHS, ethics etc £7.00 + £3.00 p&p

ISC Medical Medical School Interviews George Lee and Olivier Picard - literally the bible of interviews - highly recommend, RRP £25 (worth every penny) £12.00 + £3.00 p&p

The Gold Standard GAMSAT DVD collection - 4 DVDs General Chemistry - Organic Chemistry - Biology - Physics - really useful as a non-science graduate - helped me score 60+, comprehensive topics broken down and explained in, all 4 DVDs £35 + £5.00 p&p

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Help...i need your advise, dropped out of med school due to ill health, re-applying

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 06:23 AM PDT

Hi

I am a mature student who was formerly a third year medical student at the university of liverpool, i've just had two years off due to depression and i am thinking of reapplying...i was wondering if there are other people in my position and what my chances are of getting back on a medical degree. Also, i did access to medicine 6 years ago now, does anyone know if uni's will accept that qualification after such a long time. Thank You

Entry to Medicine in UK compared to Spain

Posted: 06 Apr 2013 04:33 AM PDT

Hi all,

I'm currently living in Madrid doing the access test for university to study medicine. I'm a UK national and know the system of getting into medical school there quite well (or at least I know how it was in 2008). I wanted to tell you about how it works to get into a medical degree in Spain and get your opinion on which way you think is best.

The usual way to access in Spain is to use the exams you sit in university along with an additional test. It's not so dissimilar to A-levels except that their grade is express as a number with decimal points. The process of selecting students is very straight forward. The university looks at all the grades and selects the top however number to fill their places. So each year the grade boundary moves because it depends on the grades that the top however many people achieve. Of course, as in the UK, the grade boundary is incredibly high.

I like this system very much. There's absolutely no bias. Alot in the UK depends on interviews, personal statement and work experience. With anything that someone writes in a personal statment or says in an interview, its more to do with a testing your ability to persuade than anything else and its based heavily on the perception of the interview. In regard to work experience, I can see how it shows motivation but deciding whose work experience is worth more than another seems a bit of a nonsense to me.

What do you think?

(This is the first time I've posted on this forum but I have to say the advert on the left flashing all the time saying "Mom Makes Botox Doctors Furious!" when im trying to type is ****ing annoying).