When I handed in my resignation to go study graduate entry medicine, the first thing my line manager said to me was 'ahh, I've considered doing the same!'. Then word got out across my company and I realised that about 50% of my colleagues were somewhere along the journey: some had thought about it, some had looked at the courses and some had even started an application in the past. One friend from the senior management team even confessed to me that they had sat the UCAT earlier on in the year, but they just couldn't bring themselves to quit their stable job and revert to being a student in their early thirties.
Pursuing medicine as a second degree, especially if you've already started building a career in something else and/or have a partner and a family, would essentially involve uprooting your life (and theirs too). Clearly, not a decision to be taken lightly and I totally get the fears - I've grappled with most of them myself... after all, it did take me 3 years of deliberation to apply.
So, the purpose of this blog is to give a glimpse of:
- what the graduate medicine experience is like on the inside
- how it measures up against my fears and expectations
- the difficulties and joys of pursuing medicine as a second degree
Happy reading and I hope the contents of this blog are, if not quite helpful, then at least of some value to you!
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