We recommend that you structure your Personal Statement to cover the following three areas:

1. Commitment to Medicine
2. Knowledge of core qualities required of a doctor
3. Teamwork

· Attempts to experience the work of a doctor (the day to day involvement)

· Attempts to research the training involved for a career in medicine (both at university and after qualifying)

· Understanding of the level of commitment required (the 'highs' and 'lows' of being a doctor)

· Undertake leisure, sporting, creative activities

· Activities at school

· Activities outside school

· Attitude to colleagues

· Ability to participate fully in school life and help others to do so

· School honours and prizes

· What you think a doctors 'core qualities' are and how you display these

This can be achieved by:

The ‘last bastion of true public service’, says Pilger, the NHS was designed to give millions of people ‘freedom from fear’. He explores how the NHS has been influenced by the insurance-based healthcare system in the US that denies medical treatment to millions. 

Filmed in Britain and the United States, Pilger's compelling film, his 61st, gives voice to those who warn that time may be running out in the battle to save both the NHS and the fundamental human right to medical care.

And thanks to our dedicated volunteers, who do a shift each week, we can offer support when it’s needed most.

The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.