how to become a doctor BLOG
Welcome to Medic Mentor’s new blog, where we will be tracking and posting new resources and stories about our Mentors, Scholars and Applying students. The blog has been created to keep our Medic Mentor community connected and to make sure that you do not miss any important news or events on your journey to become excellent future doctors!
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ALL OF OUR LATEST BLOGS
Time management and Prioritisation
Happy new year everyone and welcome into the next article of our Medic Mentor blog. My name is Dr Alok and I am one of the chief mentors for medicine at Medic Mentor. I look forward to meeting you all and mentoring you through your application journey. Let’s get...
Study Guide January 2022
Problem Based Learning Problem based learning (PBL) is a popular method of learning, currently used by most health professional courses in the UK. The aim of PBL is for you to read through a complex and broad series of information, to identify areas of interest and...
Study Guide December 2021
Problem Based Learning Problem based learning (PBL) is a popular method of learning, currently used by most health professional courses in the UK. The aim of PBL is for you to read through a complex and broad series of information, to identify areas of interest and...
Top 10 Tips for Panel Interviews
10 Top tips for panel interviews Interviews always seemed so daunting for me as an applying student. I knew it had been an achievement to even get this for. Your whole application journey of work experience, volunteering, personal statements, UCAT, BMAT and in...
Top 10 Tips for MMI Interviews
Top 10 Tips for MMI Interviews: Interview Season has arrived! I am sure you are all thinking about how you can ace your upcoming MMI Interviews – well fear not! Having gone through the process myself in the past year, here are my top 10 tips to do exactly that: ...
Study Guide November 2021
Problem Based Learning Problem based learning (PBL) is a popular method of learning, currently used by most health professional courses in the UK. The aim of PBL is for you to read through a complex and broad series of information, to identify areas of interest and...
Study Guide October 2021
Problem Based Learning edicsProblem based learning (PBL) is a popular method of learning, currently used by most health professional courses in the UK. The aim of PBL is for you to read through a complex and broad series of information, to identify areas of interest...
Confidence
Applying to medical school taught me many things about myself, but I have realised since that even when you think you have mastered a skill, there is always room for improvement. The main thing I learnt as an applying student, and as a medical student since, is that...
What I Would Tell my First Year Self
Hey everyone my name is Rob and I’m a 5th year medical student at the University of Manchester, meaning my first year at medical school was in 2016. Being the first in my family to go to medical school I didn’t really know what to expect and there are a...
How COVID Affected My University Experience
Due to obvious reasons, being a fresher this year is definitely nothing like how it usually is. Jam packed lecture halls, pub crawls and fresher fairs have all been moved to the virtual world of Zoom, Blackboard Collaborate and Microsoft Teams. No matter how much we...