The full requirements for medical school?

I am impressed with your organisation and early commitment.

Academically you seem to know where you stand.

Your plans above sound excellent.

Just one thing to remember: I advise the following.

1) Try to arrange and meet and talk to some doctors, understand exactly what the job is like and what type of person you need to be.

2) Apart from academically excel, you need to develop youself socially and personnally, be a good communicator, learn how to speak well with people. I dont mean CV things, more interpersonnal skills. These are essential to a career in medicine.

I am sure that if you continue as you are you will enjoy a good career.

I wish you all the best.

Well, you already seem to be very on top of things. The only thing I would say is not to view this as a 'tick box' process. For example, you state that you are 'required' to shadow for two years. This is not at all true. You certainly need work experience, but the aim of it is not to fulfil some set requirement in terms of duration of placement, it is to allow you to demonstrate your understanding of, and commitment to, the medical profession. Don't get me wrong, a two year placement is great, but plenty of people have got into med school having done only a few weeks - the important thing is to be able to draw on your experiences on the placement, regardless of its length, to articulate your understanding of the role of a doctor and your own suitability for the role. Make sure that you are able to do this, both in your PS and in interview. If you just reel off a list of the placements you have done, you will not get very far (not that I'm suggesting you would do this, but too many people do). I would recommend actually writing down all the things that happen on any of your placements (like seeing people deal effectively with difficult patients, observing the stresses of the job and how these are dealt with etc etc) that you think are interesting or relevant to the role of a doctor. It is very easy to forget things and if you have it all written down, and make sure you are really thinking about it rather than just observing/experiencing without too much thought, you will find it much easier when it comes to applying and to interviews in particular.

Apart from that, there are a few other things you could do to improve your application. Shadowing an actual doctor or undertaking a placement in a hospital would be helpful as, although geriatric homes and pharmacies are relevant in some ways, it would be useful to be able to experience what you would actually be doing as a doctor. It would also be useful to do something that involves you actually doing, rather than just shadowing - e.g. could you actually help out at the geriatric home? This would allow you to talk about the skills you have that would help you to be a doctor. You also don't mention your grades - I'm sure you are aware that GCSEs are taken into account by certain medical schools. Have a look here to see requirements -

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Medical_Schoo...

That should help you to think about which med schools might be the most appropriate to you. It would be a good idea to look on a few med school websites to see what kind of requirements they have and what kind of people they are after (and therefore what kind of skills and attributes you need to demonstrate when applying). That site also has info on work experience and other aspects of applying to medicine -

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Medicine_at_U...

There is also a very useful forum on there if you have any further questions. Good luck!

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