What percentage of medical students take a gap year before uni?

Thread Starter What percentage of medical students take a gap year before uni? Follow 3 hours ago 3h ago Quote: Originally Posted by Voxxia Asking out of curiosity I can't tell you that - in fact I'm not sure there is any body that holds that data. What I can tell you is that in 2018 out of 20,730 applicants, 2,480 had applied previously. This proportion has been steadily decreasing since 2015, when 3710 applicants out of 20,390 were re-applicants https://www.ucas.com/file/130741/dow...token=g_2adVK0 You may be interested to know though that between FY2 and ST1 i.e. between years 2 and 3 as a doctor, its a natural career break and more than half of doctors take a gap year.
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