So You Want to Be a Doctor? - The Ultimate Guide to Getting Into Medical School

So you want to be a doctor? Be confident and fully prepared for every step of your medical school application. Packed with insight, tips, and information you won't find anywhere else, this essential guide helps applicants succeed against tough competition.

List of contents

• Becoming a doctor


• 1: Making the decision


• 2: Succeeding at A-level


• 3: Taking a gap year


• 4: Getting a life


• 5: Work experience


• 6: Preparing for admissions tests


• 7: Choosing a medical school


• 8: Undergraduate medical schools


• 9: Perfecting the UCAS form


• 10: Getting into Oxbridge


• 11: Graduate entry medicine


• 12: Graduate entry medical schools


• 13: Non-traditional applications


• 14: How to succeed at interview


• 15: If things don't work out


• 16: Making the most of medical school


• Appendix 1: UCAT and BMAT questions


• Appendix 2: Useful resources

About the author

David Metcalfe, Harveer Dev, Michael Moazami

Summary

So you want to be a doctor? Be confident and fully prepared for every step of your medical school application. Packed with insight, tips, and information you won't find anywhere else, this essential guide helps applicants succeed against tough competition.

Additional text

Forget the rest: read this! I wish I had come across this sooner, it has still been a huge help and I feel very positive about the challenging application process ahead.

Product details

• Authors: David Dev Metcalfe
• Assisted by: Harveer Dev (Editor), Dev Harveer (Editor), David Metcalfe (Editor), Metcalfe David (Editor), Michael Moazami (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9780198836308
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883630-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Success in Medicine
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, Medical profession, Advice on careers & achieving success, Advice on careers and achieving success, For vocational / professional education / training