Medicine & Dentistry

What can you do with a dentistry degree? 

Dentistry degrees cover both the technical and academic side of the profession and can lead to many alternative positions after graduation. As you learn the clinical side of the profession, you will also develop skills in administration and management, analytical thinking and problem solving, and finally teamwork and communication. 

What can you do with a medical degree? 

Although many people who choose to study medicine do so because they want to become a doctor, there are many other areas of medicine that this degree can lead you to. During your medicine degree you will learn specific medical skills but also teamwork, observation, communication, decision making and time-management, all of which can lead to other areas of work. 

Applying for medical school is like starting a new relationship. There’s the all-encompassing love, the enthusiasm, the feeling that finally life is slotting into place; and also the terror, the second-guessing yourself, the endless waiting for something dramatic to happen. Suddenly everything you do comes under the microscope – is this good enough to go on my personal statement? How can I spin this to my advantage? Do I know enough about this to mention it and then potentially discuss it at interview? (Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want to talk about at interview.