London Venue

University of East London, Dochlands Campus, University Way, Royal Docks, London E16 2RD.

Stirling

University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA

Accommodation and Safeguarding

Students will be given same-sex individual en-suite accommodation.  Mentors will be supervising 24/7 and in addition there will be 2 Safeguarding Officers on site throughout the week.  We take safety very seriously and you can review our Safeguarding Policy here.

 

For 2022 (for current year 12 & S5): Scotland 28th June – 2nd July (5 spaces) London and 9th – 13th August  (12 spaces)

For 2023 (for current year 11 & S4): Scotland 27th June – 1st July London 25th July – 29th July 1st – 5th August 8th August – 12th August

For 2024 (for current year 10 & S3): London 10th – 14th August

Over the past 5 years we have consistently had over 80% of Summer School students obtain at least 1 medical or dental school offer.  The majority of attendees are multiple offer holders.  This year’s class have smashed our record with a 90% success rate.  Students from 2019 have written about their experiences here.

Medic Mentor have been successfully preparing students since 2016.

Most Summer Schools cost between £3000-£5000.  These are summer schools that are either run by medical schools themselves or private companies.

Their prices only cover the cost of attending the course itself, whereas the Medic Mentor Summer School also offers teaching and mentoring support throughout Year 13 and S6.

The cost of our Medical Summer School, which is £2750, is a considerable investment as it covers all of your food and accommodation for 5 days, 2 face-to-face mock interview days in Nov and December after the summer school, interview practice before and after each interview, unlimited personal statement revisions, question banks for UCAT & BMAT and all of the Medic Mentor e-learning courses. The actual per hour teaching rate works out at around £5/hour from Doctors and medical students (once all admin and running costs have been removed).  This is only achieved by our doctors working on a voluntary basis to help students.

There are also 0% interest no credit check options to spread the cost of the summer school for up to 2 years, which makes it more accessible to the majority of medical school applicants.  You can register and secure your place now with a £250 deposit and even spread the cost for up to a year after the summer school.

Students from low-income backgrounds:

We will be offering 30 widening access summer school places for low-income students from 2021.  Applications will open on 25th November 2021

To see all of our registration options and current availability, please click here and select the appropriate year.  Please remember that the Summer School is only for students in year 12 or new S6s, but you can register 1 or 2 years in advance, if you wish to ensure that your place is secure.

The UCAS application itself is made up of several elements: the veterinary personal statement, deciding which vet schools to apply to, veterinary school interviews, references and ‘wider-reading’.   The Vet Mentor Summer School will prepare you in each of these components. You will also get invaluable follow up mentoring throughout year 13 and S6, from your own personal vet mentor.   Our goal is to get you into veterinary school.

In addition to the teaching provided at the summer school, all students have personal references written by vets and sent to their school reference teachers.  You will receive text books and you will be automatically enrolled onto our Leadership Programme called the School Ambassador Leadership Programme.  This will boost your CVs and ensures that you improve in confidence, knowledge and skills through increased contact time with a variety of vets and veterinary students before and after the Summer School.  It is optional, and you can read more about it here.   The Summer School can also be used for the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award or Vet Gold Award. 

Koby and Laura attended the summer school in 2019 and have each obtained 4 offers.  Koby is a 1st year at Cambridge and Laura is a 1st year at Oxford.  They discuss the importance of personal statements and the impact that summer school has had on the success of their applications.

 In the run up to Saturday morning, students will have interview preparation every evening throughout the week in a more informal and fun way. We will introduce them to advanced communication skills and ask them to complete fun interview stations at the start of the week.

 Students will learn interview theory as well as effective delivery via multiple interview simulations.  Summer School students will have been interviewed at least 10 times throughout the week and they will be given verbal and written feeback with mark schemes to take home.  

Eventually, students will  feel confident, prepared and desensitised to the nerves that are associated with medical school interviews.  In November and December, students will be invited to further mock interview days in London/Birmingham/Stirling for additional refreshers during interview season (November-March). In addition, they will be given virtual interview practice with the Chief Mentors before every medical school interview that they attend.

Find out what last year’s students thought about the interview preparation that they received:

Choosing 4 vet schools is a significant yet time-consuming challenge.  Your selection plays an important role in obtaining your offers.  

Medical Schools differ in their entry requirements, competition ratios, weightings for various parts of the application (e.g. UCAT/interview etc) and teaching style.  Selecting your universities carefully will give you a distinct advantage in terms of obtaining offers.

The Chief Mentors will conduct a UCAS consultation conference prior to the summer school.  We invite parents to attend this too.  Together, we will equip you with all of the information that you need to tactically make the best university choices and maximise your chances of obtaining offers.

 

Your vet school UCAS reference is also a very important component of your application.  It is also a little different to the sort of reference that your teachers would write for other courses.

Your summer school mentor will write a detailed school reference which is checked by our Chief Mentors and then forwarded to your school teachers, in support of your application.  These references have always been well received in the past and saves your teachers a considerable amount of time too.

Summer School students interested in our Scholarship Programme have the potential to be fast-tracked by the Chief Mentors. This means that they are interviewed first for the scholarships and the reamaining scholarships are awarded to students who have completed the Vet Gold Award (and passed their interview).

The scholarships are merit-based and awarded to the most talented and hard working students.  They are worth up to £12,000 across a 6 year medical degree. Therefore, attending the Summer School does not guarantee a scholarship, but it does prepare you well.  We want to reward the best medical school applicants and naturally, Summer School students are the most prepared, committed and hard working.