Medicine🏥⚕️: UK🇬🇧 vs Australia 🇦🇺 vs India 🇮🇳
When deciding to study medicine, as a child raised in an Indian background, I always only had 3 options or countries in my mind which were either the UK, Australia, or India. Although staying in India to medicine would be the straightforward answer, I always had the curiosity and wanted to know more about the medical journey overseas. So let’s look at the medical journey in these countries and hopefully find out which is the best option. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Pre-requisites Year 11 (Age: 15-16) Good GCSEs grades Volunteering(for 6 to 12 months to gain people interactions)- portfolio Year 12 (Age 16-17) A-levels(at least 3 A grades) Work experience( medicine-related eg. Job shadowing doctors)- portfolio Super-curricular( biology olympiads, workshops, talks)- portfolio Year 13 (Age 17-18) To get admission into a medical course under one of the universities, aspirants need to either take up UCAT or BMAT, depending on the universities. But as of 2024, it is best is ta...