medicine please reply.

ant043

Well Guys

I really need advice and would be very grateful for any thoughts. I'm currently doing radiography and within the last few months i have decided that medicine is the career path i want to take. I don't care how long it will take, or how hard it is. Just don't know where to go from here. Obviously i could repeat the leaving and try to get the points. There is also the postgraduate route in a few years but i hear competition is fierce for limited places. I was thinking of applying to a few universities through ucas in september. i got 545 in the leaving two years ago but never did chemistry and biology. If i do just chemistry and biology for leaving next year, do i have any chance of being accepted in a university in the uk.

Please give any information you can, Thanks for any replies

Lil' Smiler

Yeah as far as I know you can just do chemistry and biology and I'd see no reason why you wouldn't get accepted if you applied to the UK by UCAS and met the requirements

ant043

thanks a lot for the reply. really appreciated. Keep them coming

Traumadoc

Give RCSI admissions a call, I remember several students who had completed or dropped out of other courses.

ant043

thanks traumadoc but i thought points for rcsi were around 570 so 545 doesnt have a chance.

kelle

I am not sure how accurate this information is, but I was told a BSc in Radiography will allow you to be exempted from 1st and 2nd year of Medicine, so you would only need to do 4 years. The person who told me this had just got her BSc (this was in 1998), and was thinking of doing Medicine. She didn't pursue it in the end.
But maybe this rule has changed since.

ant043

not sure about that one kelle, but will definitely look into it. I know the postgrad course in ireland is only four years.

Chunky Monkey

Some places I know for definite will only accept all the leaving subjects in one sitting (like it is here). They accept single subject repeats for the A-levels but the leaving cert seems to be quite looked down on there (understandable) with many places not accepting repeats and most London colleges not accepting the LC at all. Sorry I can't help you with specifics but definitely make sure you do a lot of research before deciding what to do (email ALL the colleges!).

Apparently the GEM programmes are a lot cheaper in the UK. I met a girl at work today who did science in trinity and is going on to the Warwick GEP. She said she has to pay the basic three grand something fee for the first year and then the next three years are paid for by the NHS. You wouldn't have to repeat and you could get your degree in just four years...worth checking out!

Good luck

Traumadoc

ant043 wrote: »

thanks traumadoc but i thought points for rcsi were around 570 so 545 doesnt have a chance.

Give them a call, you have nothing to lose. As I said there were radiographers, engineers, and other graduates at Surgeons.

ant043

thanks will do. its worth a shot anyway.

manic56

Was talking to a mate last night and his gf is off to newcastle to start med in september.Was fairly steaming at the time but aparently you need a 2:1,there are only going to be 20 odd people in the class and the course is 4 years long.Might be worth a look.

ant043

thanks mate will do.