As the title says this is just a who I am and why I've bothered to write a blog. Obviously if you've found your way here you're the kind of person that's thinking about being a doctor (like me) which I've been told makes us all mad!
Right now I'm at uni (well literally right now I'm sitting at home because the summer holidays have started - thank God because exams, as per, were horrendous) doing a degree in biology and by October 15th 2013 (the dreaded UCAS deadline) I'll have applied to 4 graduate entry medical courses around England (oh and maybe some in Wales/Scotland but not too sure about that yet).
I'm afraid I'm one of those people that turns around and says 'I want to be a doctor because I've never wanted to do anything else' - so sorry for being so obvious but unfortunately that's the truth!
At the tender age of 16 (A level subject deciding time), I debated about whether to go to medical school straight from school but decided against it for many reasons (one of which was the dread I felt at the thought of taking Chemistry all the way to A level - I'm sure some of you biology students out there can feel my pain... a pain that has now been felt for the past three years as my degree has a very high level of biochemistry - which, it turns out, isn't actually that bad!). So all of these reasons led to the big decision that is Graduate Entry Medicine (we'll just shorten that to GEM from now on).
So you make this big decision that you want to be a doctor - you may want to save lives, you may want a license to slice people open, you may be following in your mum/dad's footsteps or you may just want to be able to say 'hey I'm a doctor' and hope that gets you a hot date (those of you who like to watch Grey's Anatomy and the rest probably fit into this last category.... I may be slightly guilty of watching such shows, will not be confirming this definitively...).
Sorry - back to the point: so you've decided to be a doctor and now you want to know what you have to do to get there. Obviously there's all the work experience malarky (I'll try and put a post up about that soon) but really, the nitty-gritty of it all is applying and getting into medical school.
If you're nice and organised (also guilty) you will have gotten the prospectuses for all the med schools you've heard of or like the sound of and will have scoured over them and tried to decipher what the hell is the difference between this school in London or this fine institution in Edinburgh or this edgy place in Manchester. Well, this my fellow potential doctors is the reason for my little blog to have come into existence.
I thought I would share my experiences about applying to medical school (and all it entails - open days, UCAS etc. etc.) and hopefully the interview process and what it's like when you're finally there (fingers crossed for now because it's only August so we'll just hope and see!!!).
I think that's more than enough of an 'intro to me' for now - hope my various experiences (and let me warn you, some of them have been ridiculous so far) can either help you or at the very least amuse you as you struggle through the GEM (or the more common medical school application straight from school) process.
Next post will come soon (as soon as I've thought of something slightly useful to say).
Dr Wannabe x
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