Importance of gold DofE for medicine

Thread Starter Importance of gold DofE for medicine Follow 23 minutes ago 23m ago Irrelevant, you would be better off spending that time doing medical work experience. Also, it doesn't matter where you study medicine, as there is no "better" or "best" medical school, as the only provider of postgraduate medical training posts in the UK is the NHS and they specifically blind your medical school in the recruitment process to ensure the recruiters cannot be biased by where you studied medicine. You should be choosing medical schools on the basis of your academic profile, selecting those you are most likely to get into. Not on the basis of RG membership. Even for non-medical subjects RG membership is meaningless, as it's ostensibly a postgraduate research consortium and therefore has no bearing on undergraduate teaching or anything, and in reality is just a political lobbying group and marketing strategy. So even ...
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