Dr Drink's Journey through Medicine

Hello! Studying Medicine at Bristol University, I’ve been asked by students with an interest in Medicine too about how I got there, so have decided to put together this blog which outlines exactly how I spent Year 12 and Year 13 – and how you should too. I hope this can help you at all. I am also going to update this blog with my Med-experience, so you can follow my journey to becoming a doctor - please do "Follow by Email" (see right side of the page) to get updates every time I upload a post.

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Monday, 21 August 2017

MOOCs

MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course and I recommend you complete at least one of these! They’re short, they’re fun and they’re interesting. You basically teach yourself something on the side that may be beyond the specification (meaning you are indirectly wider reading!)

You login, dedicate 15 minutes or so a day on learning new things, complete an online test and move to the next screen. But there are so many MOOCs available. So if you’re interested in drugs, mental health, paediatric health, oncology or neurology – there is a MOOC out there for you!

I completed a MOOC on cancer biology which was being run by the university I applied to, so I used this to further my knowledge. Not only did it compensate my own knowledge, but it “fuelled that passion for Medicine” and I could use it for research in my EPQ.