1. I wanna be a doctor!!

2. Talk to cover the following Do you really want to do it? Result expectation of universities (GCSE & A level) Work experience Wider reading Other experiences Personal statement After talk Year 13 students BMAT paper Books to read

3. Who wants you to be a doctor? What are your GCSE grades? What are you expecting from A level? What have you done so far? –University websites –TV programmes –Reading books –Personal medical experience –Worked hard?!! Extra tests – BMAT & UKCAT

4. Work experience Not the quantity but quality and interested in what you have learned from the experience Positive & negative sides of medicine and care Human side of care Long term and short term Care home both elderly & disabled GP’s, Hospitals, medical labs (Pathology, haemotology) Volunteering Difficult to find and often heavily oversubscribed We are looking into compiling a parent & alumni list to try to help.

5. Other experience Extra curricular, sport, competitions, other interests MED-link, VET-link (Nottingham university) Lectures – Royal society Essay writing competitions (All these are available to boys by reading school newsletter, following Biology Twitter account, looking at our display boards outside S10)

6. READING!! READ, READ, READ Biology Library Biology department website with book reviews New scientist BBC News SNAB website

7. Personal statement Well these read differently depending on what of ALL previously described has been done. But… It is not a shopping list it is a description of your life and what you have LEARNT!