Medicine / Clinical
Applications
Around a dozen Form 7 pupils apply for clinical courses - mainly medicine - each year and we currently have Old Oakhamians training to be doctors and vets at, for example: Bristol, Cambridge, Keele, Nottingham and Peninsular. We run sessions to help applicants, typically beginning in Form 6:
Work Experience
You can use the following links to read about the latest Medical Work Experience in Costa Rica, with more pictures and information in the Costa Rica 2012 PDF ( 11 MB ). You can also read about the Costa Rican Ambassador's visit to Oakham.
You can read more about the recent Royal Society of Medicine careers day at Oakham, here.
Events arranged in a typical year
| Autumn Term |
| Preliminary meeting at first BioSoc Lecture |
| One day courses at Peterborough or through ISCO |
| Careers Fair |
| Spring Term of Form 6 |
| Introductory lecture |
| Quantitative Biology |
| Ethics |
| UKCAT |
| Personal statements and application strategy (Headmaster) |
| RSM Careers Day, London |
| Leicester Hospitals work observation programme |
| Pre-med course |
| Summer Term |
| Meet the Seventh Form |
| Philosophy of science for BMAT |
| Practice interviews with Interview Guru |
| Open day, Leicester Medical School |
| Mock UKCAT and BMAT |
| OO Medic session |
| Lecture, University of Leicester |
| UKCAT |
| Autumn Term of Form 7 |
Pre term workshop with Future Doctors and Dr Rhona Knight
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| Applications on UCAS Apply |
| Application session with Med Force |
| BMAT |
| Formal interview practice |
There were approximately 50 hours of tuition available for clinical course applicants 2010-11, in addition to BioSoc and other events in and out of school
Links
We have good links with our two nearest Medical Schools, Leicester and Nottingham, as well as with Peterborough Hospital. Historically, applicants from this school have done well, but competition is increasingly fierce and good UKCAT / BMAT scores are now an absolute requirement. (see www.ukcat.ac.uk and www.admissionstests.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/adt/bmat ) Single mindedness and determination are the characteristics which make our successful applicants stand out
Medical offers for 2012
Medical offers for 2011