Taking a post grad medicine course in the UK?
Medicine at undergraduate is very competative i know, but i have read up on entry at postgraduate following a bioscience course. How does that course effect your medicine career, would that route cater for the same education and career opportunity that an undergraduate medicine course does?
I’m thinking of taking a biomedical science undergraduate course and then progress to medicine at post graduate. Would successful completion of both at a high enough level allow me to become a GP etc.
Postgrad medicine can take the form of a special post grad course (usually about 4 years long) or post grad entry into a regular undergrad course (usually five or six years long).
To be honest, undergrad courses are just as competitive whatever you go in with, either straight from school or post grad. Some people find that as they mature through uni then it gets easier to attain the 2:1 that u need to get in, but I also know of a lot of people who applied to medicine post grad and didn’t even get the interview so exam grades didn’t even come into it.
Post grad courses are VERY competitive to get into. They are also very hard if you don’t have a biological science degree in hand. If you really want to go into medicine then I’m urger you to try now and then, but if you want to get a degree first and enjoy uni life then I’d say do the undergrad first then apply to a mixture of tradiional and post grad courses.
When you get a MBBS or an MBChB all is equal and you start on the generic training programme then choose to specialise into GP. Apart from the course once you pass it then just a case of doing well in your house jobs to get into GP training.
Good luck
Postgrad medicine can take the form of a special post grad course (usually about 4 years long) or post grad entry into a regular undergrad course (usually five or six years long).
To be honest, undergrad courses are just as competitive whatever you go in with, either straight from school or post grad. Some people find that as they mature through uni then it gets easier to attain the 2:1 that u need to get in, but I also know of a lot of people who applied to medicine post grad and didn’t even get the interview so exam grades didn’t even come into it.
Post grad courses are VERY competitive to get into. They are also very hard if you don’t have a biological science degree in hand. If you really want to go into medicine then I’m urger you to try now and then, but if you want to get a degree first and enjoy uni life then I’d say do the undergrad first then apply to a mixture of tradiional and post grad courses.
When you get a MBBS or an MBChB all is equal and you start on the generic training programme then choose to specialise into GP. Apart from the course once you pass it then just a case of doing well in your house jobs to get into GP training.
Good luck
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