Physiotherapy or Medicine?

Thread Starter Physiotherapy or Medicine? Follow 4 hours ago 4h ago I'm in both lol. I studied physio and worked as a physio for a couple of years, then decided to apply to medicine. I actually got in (undergrad course, theres no way I would have via the gamsat route!!) and currently in 4th year. Quite a lot of my cohort from physio are ending up in medicine, one graduated last year, one is due to graduate this year and one just started 1st year. This is at only the one uni, and there are more from my cohort at other universities. From a recent medical placement I was talking to a recent physio grad has already considered applying to medicine because of the current atmosphere in physio. And he was lucky, he graduated this year and 80% of his year ended up in permanent band 5 (starting grade) posts - when I graduated only about 20% got permanent nhs jobs. Thing is, you can't really go private work until you get the training via nhs. Althou...
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