Getting into medicine as an older student.

Thread Starter Getting into medicine as an older student. Follow 3 minutes ago 3m ago Quote: Originally Posted by artful_lounger That's basically what you need to do so, just focus on that. You might want to see if you can get any shadowing experience as well - having experience of working with patients in a caring role is important, but you should also ideally be aware of what the scope of a doctor's role itself is and how that might fit in with your experiences volunteering/working in a caring role (which will necessarily be different!) :) The only thing to be aware of otherwise is not all access courses are accepted by all medical schools. So before you start your access course, make sure to contact the medical schools you are considering applying to and confirm if they do accept it - you will need to let them know the name of the course and the provider. Sometimes medical schools will hav...
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