Medicine 2026 part 2

[mumsneedwine]

Thought I'd start another one.

52% of F2s didn't have a medical job in August. Currently the situation is not good. BUT UKGs prioritisationi must happen soon. There is hope.

@Littlemissbubbblles sorry but it is. My DD loves her job, loved Uni and gets real job satisfaction. As do the hundreds of students I've supported into medicine. But a vocation implies you should do it just for that. Pay and a life are as important.
And it's harder to get in than stay in. Less people drop out than don't get in.

There is real positivity within the departments that I work in that things will improve.
They really need to!
There is real hope out there. My personal feeling is, the change will be slow, and frustrating.
I say that with a heavy heart, I have a medic dd

@Littlemissbubbblles it's not all doom. My DD got straight into training as did some of her friends. It's madness that many v wonderful doctors didn't even get any medical job this year. Australia has done well out of it

I know it’s not all doom!! But the reality is it’s not as lovely as you seem to make it out to be… that’s all!
It’s hard…. My dd is F3, one of the lucky ones.
Shes loving it, but she’s knackered, rarely goes out, is living soooo far from friends etc… it’s not easy. She’ll do well, she’ll be good at what she does. But the price is high, her boyfriend, currently forced into a Masters to ‘buy’ a couple of years. They’ll be ok in the end, of course they will. They’ll font regret it.
But getting in was not the easiest bit.
For reference I’m a doubly qualified medic who encouraged my eldest to follow her medical dreams…… my other kids said ‘ no way’

If you think I think it's lovely then you've not read the threads about doctors on AIBU ! Pop over and join the fight as some of us are trying our best, taking a lot of abuse, to get change.

This thread is for parents of potential doctors so don't want them to all think it's so bad and drop out before they start ! I've pointed out the issues many times.

My DD submitted her application last week. This evening she decided to change one of her choices. She told me it was ok to change it up to 14 days after she made her submission. She made the change at 7pm today. Now she has got worried that she has made the change after the deadline. Is this going to cause a problem?

Straight up - I'm not an expert.

UCAS seems to say that you can use the substitute choice button to change a choice within 14 days of your welcome email.

@Lieinrequired it's fine, lots of changes happen in first 14 days. And she's done it before 15th deadline. All will be ok

Thank you. DD thinks the deadline was 6pm, so she is worried that making a change at 7 was too late.

I do think the deadline was 6pm.

But you can make some changes in the first 14 days after you get your welcome email, using the substitute button. I think you can change each one once but you can't switch it back.

You can withdraw choices at any time.

But if she is worried, she needs to check with UCAS.

www.ucas.com/applying/after-you-apply/making-changes-to-your-application-after-you-apply

In your link it says "If you substitute after the relevant deadline for your new course choice, it will be considered late. Contact your chosen uni or college first to check they'd consider your application."

So I think if it's her 5th choice (non Medicine) then she'll be fine. If it's one of her medicine choices it's probably best to contact Admissions at that uni to check.

@Lieinrequired
I’m not an expert at all like @mumsneedwine but I think that all choices and any changes to chose choices had to be in by 6pm yesterday if they were for the four medicine choices. I think that the change made will be deemed late. I’m not sure if it will be possible to revert back to the four original choices that were submitted before the deadline or not. I hope that I’m proved wrong but I would definitely check the situation with UCAS or admissions at that university.

This hopefully helps.

https://www.ucas.com/faqs/can-i-substitute-or-replace-university-or-college-choice-if-i-change-my-mind

However, this link says that, while you have 14 days from the welcome email to make a change, the change must happen before the relevant deadline for that course. My reading of that is that all changes for medicine course applications must be made before 6pm on 15 October.

https://www.ucas.com/applying/after-you-apply/making-changes-to-your-application-after-you-apply?utm_source=chatgpt.com

See the above link in the university or college section of the page.

I’m not trying to be difficult but I wouldn’t want someone to make a change thinking that it would be ok and it might not be….

That's how I understand it too.

Same here

DD called UCAS this morning. Fortunately their system is not showing her change as being after the deadline, so she is OK.

Although the deadline was 6pm, I think it takes a while for everything to update and she was lucky to get her change in before the data was updated.

@mumsneedwine do you have a feel for what would be safe-ish score for Leicester this year? Or too difficult to judge? Anyone applied there this year?

@SuperSue77 v hard to judge. But usually decent, but not perfect, GCSEs and a 7th decile gets an interview.

What a relief! I wonder if there is an unofficial grace period after 6pm. I'd assumed the deadline was midnight.

I am so pleased to hear that. My heart was sinking for her.

They will accept changes for quite a while after deadline - ucas haven't sent anything to Unis yet so easy to change. But always check before do anything, just in case.

The issue is not whether UCAS accept changes, it is whether by doing so after the medicine deadline your application becomes late - which is what UCAS says it does. If you decided against medicine and changed to law it would be fine as not late.