Product Description

A career in medicine is a huge commitment for anyone, and there are often significant additional considerations for mature students. Our book is a comprehensive guide not only to gaining a place at one of the 14 specifically graduate entry medical schools, but it also provides information regarding many other relevant aspects to a medical career including:

Why medicine?
Choosing a school
The application process
Obtaining good work experience
Entrance Exams
Interviews
Financial Implications
Career paths in the NHS

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #202316 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

From the Publisher
Spine Publishing is part of Dr Prep Ltd, a company which specialises in preparing candidates for entry into medical school. They are:

Experienced in preparing candidates for GAMSAT, MSAT and BMAT and other examinations
Experienced interviewers
Education focused
Customer led
Genuinely interested in your desire to study medicine

From the Author
We are final year medical students on a graduate entry course and were successful in a number of entrance exams and interviews four years ago. At that time we found it difficult, due to somewhat inaccessible and inadequate information, to know how to prepare for the entrance examinations and for graduate entry to medicine in general. We were fortunate in both having backgrounds heavily allied to medicine, in addition to some genuinely inspiring colleagues and friends. We recognised that many equally capable candidates did not have our fortunate, if not privileged, background. Therefore, we hope to pass on to you the wisdom of those same inspirational colleagues, as well as the knowledge and experience that we have gained through consultation with hundreds of gradudate entry applicants to all fourteen graduate entry medical courses.

From the Inside Flap
Dawn Sellars graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Natural Sciences in 1997. She then worked in NHS management before returning to academia with the Institute of Cancer Research. She is now in her final year of study for a degree in medicine on the graduate entry programme at St George's, University of London. She is the managing director of Dr Prep Ltd, a company which specialises in preparing candidates for entry into medical school.

Yolande Knight is a final year medical student on the graduate entry programme at St George's, University of London. In 1994 she graduated with a Bachelor of Medical Science from Sydney University, Autralia. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London where she is an honorary Research Fellow. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the USA, is completing a Diploma in the History of Medicine, and has experience in teaching communication and interview skills to students.

Customer Reviews

some good info but a lot of fluff, the MSAG is better
i was looking for a book with information and facts to get into graduate entry medicine and reading the reviews on amazon i bought this one first and i found this to be a book with some information and a lot of fluff. The beginning particularly was about thinking of medicine, what it means to become a doctor...I guess that s just not the book i was looking for. If you want something to help you think if medicine is right for you, etc.. this is good. But if you already know medical school application is what you want to do, then a large part of the book will be useless. There are some good tips and summary tables but overall i felt I was reading very wordy sentences. I then got this other book, the medical school application guide (MSAG) for graduate applicants in the UK and Ireland that is much more to the point. For each school, it gives all the information relevant to application and admission: stats, requirements, selection process, interview structure. However nothing on helping you think if it s the right career for you. The MSAG also has a better interview help section i found. I d recommend that one for graduate entry medicine applicants. the how to get into graduate entry medicine has good info but I found few things to be outdates whereas everything is for 2010 entry in the MSAG. Other seem to like this one so maybe different books work for different people but I much prefered the MSAG

A Great Buy!
This book is not a quick fix type book, it's a thinkers book, or so I like to think!

It's so useful to have all the same info in one place too. I get the impression that the attitudes are very 'current' as well; or at least that's the impression I've got at the open days.

I think it's going to be really useful for getting me into the zone before my interviews. A friend from last year's applications recommended it to me and she says it's even better than last year's version.

Do not buy this book
I found most of the information in the book either useless or outdated. I returned the book as soon as I realized I am never going to make any use of it.
The book is useless, all the information can be found on websites of the respective medical schools, and that costs you nothing. You can find similar (but free) printed resources summarizing admission requirements published by The Careers Group.