Can I still study medicine??!!!

Thread Starter Can I still study medicine??!!! Follow 5 hours ago 5h ago You won't be able to switch from any degree into medicine (only some universities let the top 2% of biomed student switch to the medicine course but I've seen 2 do that). Even if you wanted to do postgrad med after your engineering degree, there's not a lot of universities that consider engineering degree close enough to a medical science degree (such as pharmacy, biomed, biology, neuroscience etc.) Furthermore, statistically for undergrad medicine the applicant to offer ratio is about 1 in 8, for post grad this can instantly rise to 1 in 40. So it's way harder to get in afterwards but I guess people still do it. Foundation years is usually for those who are eligable for it, you need to live in a deprived/low income post code, go to a comprehensive school etc. Otherwise everyone would apply for the foundation year courses. You're going to have to look outside of Scot...
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