So you want to be a Doctor?: The ultimate guide to getting into medical school
The book
So You Want To Be A Doctor? is the most comprehensive medical school admissions guide available.
- Contributions from over 100 medical students, admissions specialists, and doctors.
- Detailed profiles on every medical course in the UK and those further afield!
- Many tables comparing courses using hard to find information, e.g. competition, prestige, student satisfaction, league table results, and post-graduate exam success.
- Over a thousand copies sold within weeks of publication. Other applicants are buying this book - you need it as well!
- Highly Commended by the BMA Medical Book Awards 2011.
"The best guide in its field"
BMA Medical Book Awards 2011
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The Authors
Dr Stephan Sanders - BMedSci(Hons) BMBS
Stephan studied medicine at the University of Nottingham where he wrote a textbook on endocrinology and reproduction. He has been writing books ever since including the best-selling Oxford Handbook of the Foundation Programme which is used by the majority of first year doctors in the UK.
Stephan initially trained in paediatrics at Northwick Park and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals before moving to Yale University in the USA where he is undertaking a PhD looking at genetic variations underlying autism (http://tools.medicine.yale.edu/state/www/index.html).
He has been an expedition doctor working for the BBC on a number of television series and was awarded a Diploma in Mountain Medicine by the University of Leeds.
Dr David Metcalfe - BSc(Hons) MBChB
David graduated with a first class BSc(Hons) in Biological Sciences with Molecular Genetics (2006) and MB ChB (2010) from the University of Warwick.
He won over twenty awards at medical school, including the Pridgeon Gold Medal for Scholarship at graduation. He published widely as a medical student and joined the Academic Foundation Programme (Vascular Surgery) at St George's Hospital in London.
David teaches medical students at St George's University of London and at University College London where he is a PDS Tutor in Medical Ethics and Law.
Dr Harveer Dev - BA(Hons) MBBChir
Harveer used six A-levels (grade 'A') to win a place studying medicine at the University of Cambridge. He graduated with a BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences (2008) and a MB BChir (2011).
He won a number of prizes at Cambridge and undertook an elective in urology at Weill Cornell Medical College (Presbyterian Hospital, New York). Harveer published widely as a student in urology and is currently an Academic Foundation Doctor (Surgery) at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
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