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Schools hot on 'medicine' as a career choice

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nokissymum · 21/06/2011 18:21

my friends ds is 10yrs and been saying for about 3 years now he wants to be a doctor when he is old enough. Friend and i were wondering wether there are any particular schools known of whose graduants seem to have a strong swaying towards medicine.

I may be wrong in this assumption but seem to feel certain schools just seem to end up with most their students going in a particular direction, be it languages, enineering etc. Thank you.

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mumblechum1 · 21/06/2011 20:40

Quite, cat. at 10 my ds wanted to be an astronaut, and at 3 he wanted to be a rabbit Smile

cat64 · 21/06/2011 20:20

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yotty · 21/06/2011 20:17

Try Epsom College.

sue52 · 21/06/2011 20:17

At I'd look for schools that have good exam results in the sciences and check leavers university destinations.

mumblechum1 · 21/06/2011 20:04

Are you in a grammar area? DS is at grammar and wants to do medicine (though his sloth-like attitude to GCSE revision does not instill much confidence in him actually getting into med school). Several of his friends are aiming to do medicine/dentistry and the school does encourage them but also places a lot of emphasis on getting into Oxbridge which is actually a bit crap for medicine courses.

If you're in a grammar area and your dc gets in, they will be pushed to their limit, whatever their talents and aptitudes.

gramercy · 21/06/2011 19:59

I was reading a novel in which the main character observed that "medicine" is the modern-day equivalent of "entering the church" .

In times past it was a badge of honour for one of your offspring to take holy orders; now if you meet someone whose dc is doing medicine at university you can see them almost bursting with parental pride.

(Additionally people will always get sick/old/need nose job so it's a bit of a dead cert as far as future income is concerned.)

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nokissymum · 21/06/2011 19:48

If i narrow it down to specific areas, there is likely to be less response as there might not be many mners in that area. Best to just keep it open to areas people know of.

I think it would be helpful to have school names and the area as well, there might be another pattern to observe there.

Thank you for your contribution.

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thekidsmom · 21/06/2011 19:38

I think you'll have to narrow this down to at least a county to give you a useful answer, but this is exactly the place to ask.

For example, at my daughter's school there are 8 girls (from 70) going to do medicine, and in my son's year there were I think 10 (from 100) from his year.... so there are definitely some schools that are very used to preparing students for medicine