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How many grad medicine courses can I apply for on UCAS in one year?
Medicine applicant .. Help and advice please
MSc student requires assistance with pilot study
GEM funding on UCAS

How many grad medicine courses can I apply for on UCAS in one year?

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 12:17 PM PDT

Can I only apply for four medical schools when doing the grad medicine route?

Or does this not apply to grad medicine?

Medicine applicant .. Help and advice please

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 11:45 AM PDT

Hey guys

I'm a 3rd year nursing student who has always aspired to be a doctor but never quite hit the A*s, so I took another route. Anyways, I had applied to take my UKCAT test for this year, I had external work experience, went on master classes, basically prepped myself for med school. I decided to take the UKCAT rather than the GAMSAT because in the past when I attempted to take UKCAT I scored a competitive score, so a few years later concluded it was the right way to go, especially after consulting qualified doctors who took the same route. In my current course, I was working towards a 2:1 so all was going to plan. Unfortunately, due to medical reasons, I scored lower than my average for two exams so my average grading for this year was a 2:2. My personal tutor now has decided that it wouldn't be fair to predict me a 2:2 because the unis I've applied to would instantly reject it, but is reluctant to predict me a 2:1 so decided to imply I could achieve it, without actually predicting it. Personally I think it is completely unfair, I always believed predictions were focused on determining the most achievable realistic grade a student can achieve which for me, is a 2:1. So what should I do? Have all my efforts been a waste? I feel terrible and I really don't want to take a gap year, neither do I want to be predicted a grade I know I can exceed.
Please help!

MSc student requires assistance with pilot study

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 08:24 AM PDT

Hi, I'm new to the forum.

I'm an MSc student entering final year, studying Assistive Technology (tele health, tele care, tele monitoring). I'm interested in doing a pilot study for a (later) survey of GPs and med students attitudes/knowledge/practise regarding the role of new types of healthcare data that are emerging, particularly from remote monitoring of patients (rather than data captured in the clinic/surgery).

For example, new types of smart fabric, smart watches, smart phones, smart tattoos are part of a huge development in sensor and monitoring technologies currently underway, that offer an opportunity for real-time data of patient vital signs to be captured, as they go about their daily lives. It might included data that arises from products a patient might purchase privately (such as their own BP monitor), generated from equipment they use at their local gym, or generated from their smart T-shirt (e.g., Hexoskin).

I'd like to ask whether there are any volunteers on this forum that would be prepared to be guinea pigs for my survey questionnaire, to critique it as the questionnaire is developed (for reliability/validity).

If I have come to the wrong place, please forgive me, and it would be helpful if anyone could signpost me to where I might find a forum of GPs whom I could ask to take part in this research, or find repositories of existing survey questionnaires and research outcomes in this area, etc.

I believe this to be a very important area of research for GPs, as it anticipates the huge increase in data volumes of patient-generated health data that is likely to be presented to GPs about their conditions in the near future, much of which might not be welcome.

Many thanks, in advance, for all feedback,
Gaz

GEM funding on UCAS

Posted: 25 Sep 2013 06:32 AM PDT

I am applying for 3 grad entry courses and 1 5 year course at the moment. However on UCAS I am not sure what student support fee code to put, because I'd have to privately fund tuition (5 year course) but would also be applying for student finance (maintenance loan etc.) and would be getting an NHS bursary. The choices are 01. Private Funding, 02. Student finance, 03. dhss/regional health. Obviously my entitlement to bursaries and student finance will be different depending on whether I do a 4 or 5 year course, which confuses things even more!

Also what do unis need as proof of ability to privately fund the course?