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I’m starting a psychology degree next month and grad entry med is the end goal. I’m planning to apply during 3rd year uni. I’ll be aiming for a 2:1 minimum obviously but want to actually give myself a proper shot at getting in.

Did anyone here come from a psych or humanities background and actually got onto GEM? I would like to know some specific things like what made your application stand out when you were competing against science degree graduates?

I studied A level psychology and I got an A grade. I really enjoyed it so I don’t mind doing it for undergrad and using it to apply to grad med. I’ve wanted to become a doctor for some years now. In my GCSEs i didn’t perform the best so I couldn’t pick the usually bio chem a levels and I had to pick something else so I can’t apply to undergrad med with my A-levels now.

How did you handle things like UCAT, interviews and gap knowledge as you’d come from not doing a traditional degree like biomed?

Id also appreciate some general tips on structuring the next 3 years so I’m not scrambling in final year trying to build a personal statement from nothing. Any advice appreciated, trying to get ahead of this early rather than panic in third year. Thank you

I’m starting a psychology degree next month and grad entry med is the end goal. I’m planning to apply during 3rd year uni. I’ll be aiming for a 2:1 minimum obviously but want to actually give myself a proper shot at getting in.

Did anyone here come from a psych or humanities background and actually got onto GEM? I would like to know some specific things like what made your application stand out when you were competing against science degree graduates?

I studied A level psychology and I got an A grade. I really enjoyed it so I don’t mind doing it for undergrad and using it to apply to grad med. I’ve wanted to become a doctor for some years now. In my gcses i didn’t perform the best so I couldn’t pick the usually bio chem a levels and I had to pick something else so I can’t apply to undergrad med with my A-levels now.

How did you handle the science side of things like UCAT, interviews and gap knowledge as you’d come from not doing a traditional degree like biomed?

Id also appreciate some general tips on structuring the next 3 years so I’m not scrambling in final year trying to build a personal statement from nothing. Any advice appreciated, trying to get ahead of this early rather than panic in third year. Thank you

Id appreciate some advice.
I'm about to start uni and stuck between the two degree choices.

I’ve wanted to become a doctor for years now but back in GCSEs I didn’t perform well enough to do the usual bio chem a levels so I can’t apply to normal entry medicine with my a level subjects.

Occupational Therapy would ofc give me clinical experience and a fallback professional but locks me into OT specifically if I don't get into GEM. OT also seems interesting to me and you really have a rewarding career but idk if I’d enjoy it as I didn’t do any of WX for it.

Psychology counts as a science for many GEM unis and some allow any degree but I think this degree keeps my options much more open (corporate/other careers) if medicine doesn't work out, but I'd need to build clinical experience separately to get into GEM with it.

I've already done a week of hospital shadowing across several specialties and many different professionals.

I got offered a place for psychology at London university so I wouldn’t have to move away from home and save on some costs.

For occupational therapy degree I’d have to move away to University of Plymouth.

For those that did not healthcare or non science degrees how did you build up clinical work experience alongside your studies and how was it managing it?

Thank you

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