Medicine

The challenge to bridge the gap between what we know and what we aim for draws me towards medicine. Reading about new advances, such as induced pluripotent stem cells, demonstrates the exciting and on-going intellectual challenges of a medical career, something which is fundamental in my desire to s

Pursuing Medicine will allow me to treat patients and contribute to the NHS’s crucial work, but also impact the future of the field through research or teaching. The ability to have an impact on healthcare in different ways is what makes me want to study Medicine. By arranging placements in differen

Society's romanticisation of the medical field ushered in me the ambition to become a doctor from an early age. It did not arrive through careful introspection but rather by naïve assumptions too removed from reality. A chance reading of Six Months in Sudan made me question my beliefs. So, over my h