When applying to medical school, it’s important to ensure that you have enough content for your personal statement. Generally, this takes the form of work experience, life experiences, extracurriculars, part-time work, volunteering, and books/papers you’ve read (amongst other things).

Reading medicine-oriented books is a great way to form a strong narrative in your personal statement

Each medical school interviews differently, with emphasis on certain qualities or asking you to discuss ethical dilemmas that you may not have even considered. The main overriding distinction people talk about is ‘Panel vs MMI’. A panel interview is very traditional, and each year more universities move away from it. Regardless of your interview format, however, you will be asked ‘Why Medicine?’…

I was never one of those people who wanted to be a doctor since they were 4 years old. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just came to the decision a lot later. As late as my final year of Sixth Form…