The harsh reality of competing for entry into medicine is that some people don’t make it. Interview offers are the first time a cut is actually made.
They only interview double the number of people than they have places for.
I recently sold my textbooks from my first year, and had a few students message me asking about which ones they needed and where they could get them from.
So basically, this is my review on the textbooks. Ultimately, just remember, this is what worked for me — you may use textbooks…
**EDIT — as of 2019, the General Education paper is taken in first semester. Back when I did Biomed, it was in second semester. This means that some of the typical gen-eds biomedders would take, will no longer be available. However, in choosing a gen-ed I would recommend seeing how much…
You haven’t been a biomed student until you have freaked out over this block of lectures and its laboratory!
Your actual application to medicine is something that is so essential, (I mean, if you don’t apply, how can you possibly get in?), but hardly spoken about.
Don’t stress — it’s no big deal or anything, but if any of you are wondering what you actually must do…
Over the course of my first year, I came across some (free) apps that really helped me and made my study life much easier…
I went to one of the admissions lectures throughout the year and they provided an example question for each station. So if you would like to get a feel for what the interview is all about, have a read!
This is a question you will no doubt ask yourself a lot throughout first year.
Now, I can’t actually answer that question, but I can point you in the direction of some resources that can give you some idea of what your chances are.
The idea to write this blog didn’t come from no where! I got some inspiration from some awesome places and people in my first year and I want you to be able to make use of their resources as well as mine!
In terms of content, I enjoyed this paper the most out of all my first semester papers. I guess this is because it focuses around the human…