To think I can apply for post grad med school with a 2.2 in languages from 15 years ago?

I mean I can. But like I'm asking the OP why she ended up with a 2.2

It’s not impossible if you really want to do it. You wouldn’t be eligible for the fast track graduate medicine schemes but you could apply as an undergraduate. You would probably need to do an Access to Medicine course (you need to check if the med schools you are applying to accept it as a qualification and which specific courses they accept - there is more than one provider). Here is the med schools council link with entry requirements:

MSC

You would also need some work experience. I agree with a PP that bank work as an HCA is probably the best way to gain insight into a career in medicine and what it’s really like working for the NHS.

Med school is hard work but it is largely 9-5, so childcare shouldn’t be too much of an issue. You won’t get long university vacations in the later years, so you would need some school holiday childcare.

Juggling a family as a resident doctor when you will be working long hours, weekends and nights will be the real challenge. You may have to relocate. Your DC will be much older then though. Once you have done your foundation years training, there are some specialties that are more family friendly than others. If you can actually get a training contract…

By being a slightly lazy-arse prone to very last minute exam revision —looking at you ds—

If you can't answer that question I'd be more worried about the institution that awarded you any classification.

Was it really necessary for you to make that comment?

I dont think you've got any chance currently. And I'm very much an "aim for the stars" type of person.

Do an access course, although you'd probably need to fund it yourself.

How hard was it to achieve the 2:2??

I can't find it now, but there used to be a postgraduate course at a Welsh University that you could access via an entry exam. If medicine is what you really want to do, there are ways to do it, even if it means doing a course before postgraduate medicine.

Don't give up on your dream while there's still time to achieve it.

How do people even get 2.2s bar extenuating circumstances?

Why don’t you look into being a PA? I personally don’t agree with them in principle but it would probably suit you much more. They tend to do much less out of hours and have predictable rotas as well (usually taking all the best training away from actual doctors.)

YABU. Your degree isn’t even relevant and was 15 years ago. You need to have a conversation with someone at the university to see what you could do to be considered.

You would never do it in four years without a science or medical background. And the 4 year course is very intensive. By all means make enquiries and as others have said you will need to do some more qualifications.

This. Postgrad entry medicine is usually for people who did a relevant first degree (science, biomedical science, etc) and most (if not all will require 2:1 in that science first degree. If you don't even have A levels, they won't look at you. You will also need some significant, relevant work experience.

What is likely to prove a massive barrier on its own is getting a good enough score on the Gamsat or UKCAT test - it's very hard indeed and for someone without recent, relevant science quals, probably impossible.

I know all this because my niece (possessor of science A levels at v good grades, a relevant first degree at 2:1 and a relevant second degree AND a year working full-time as a HCA in a hospital) for the past 3 years has been applying. She finally got a good enough score at UKCAT and one interview. She now has a place to study medicine.

God help us all 😳

Could you look at this-
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/about/newshub/news-events/new-medical-doctor-degree-apprenticeship-launched-delivering-a-more-representative-workforce-for-local-communities/

This is going to sound brutal. You may enjoy studying, but if you can't Even manage to be one of the 70 per cent thèse days who get a first or a 2:1 I doubt you have the intellectual apparatus required.

One in three get a first thèse days. Adjust your expectations. Nursing might be an option I guess.

No
You’ve literally done a superficial google and don’t know what’s available to you
you don’t meet the entry criteria . You’ve made no effort to meet it
you have no recent experience in health or social care, go get some
have not made any steps toward A level sciences or access course

PG medicine in london
QMUL
kings
George’s
imperial

I got into graduate entry medicine with a 2.2 in a non-science subject.

I now have a BMBS and my CCT - none of my patients know or care about my A levels.

I have a friend who has worked as a counsellor for junior doctors for many years. She said that she used to get one or 2 young doctors per year who were feeling suicidal. Now it is 3 or 4 A WEEK.
My son has a friend from uni who is still in training ( they graduated from their first degrees 10 years ago). He has a girlfriend and a small child. She is effectively a single parent and he is an exhausted, badly paid shell who goes from placement to placement wherever he is sent(and that can be the absolute back of beyond).
I was a single parent of 2 and worked as a primary school teacher. That just about worked because I could take them with me when their school had training/ was doing different term dates. I couldn't have been a doctor.

I know nothing about medicine degrees, but what I really read from your post is that you want an intellectual challenge. Why not focus on something you could do, and which would build on your strengths, such as learn another language, privately tutor in a language you have, or maybe do an Open University degree?

Hi, I think you should look into it if it is what you want to do. Some medical schools allow graduates with non-science backgrounds and 2.2s if they pass the GAMSAT or similar exam (+ interviews ect too of course). You might be eligible for St Geroges in London for instance, although I think you might have to show recent engagenent in education (see their website for details). However to pass the GAMSAT you might find it helpful to take biology or or chemistry A levels anyway (unless you already have them) and I think these would count as recent engagement in education. Please check their website to check I am right though and also look at other medical school websites too. If you do get onto the course you may also qualify for NHS bursaries as well as student loans (I am not sure of the details but might be worth looking into if relevant to you).

Graduate medicine and any future medical career can of course be really tough, but please do not be discouraged to at least investigate a bit further if you think it may be your vocation. Good luck!!

It was 2009. When my ex applied with a 2.2 in chemistry and was declined on the basis of the fact that he was 44 and they would only get 20 years of work out of him which didn’t justify the cost of training him in ROI terms. Of course that might’ve been bullshit but that was the reason given.

I think you are massively underestimating the amount of scientific background learning you will need. If you didn’t even do Biology and Chemistry GCSE then you won’t grasp the basics. I think you need to spend some time doing science A levels , and seeing how you get on at that level, after learning the GCSE courses to give you the basics pre A level.

This is probably a harder path than you realize. There are other related paths though that have lower barriers to entry. You might explore medical careers other than being a doctor. I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that it is going to be an incredibly intensive path of study.

if you have an aptitude for languages, you could also consider something like learning sign language and becoming an interpreter.

Nope, I think she did / retook her GCSEs in her mid-thirites then did an access course. She had no formal education beyond that of a school-leaver.