{"id":2958,"date":"2015-11-20T13:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T12:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2015-12-01T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:16:05","slug":"imperial-students-help-year-12s-and-13s-into-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2015\/11\/20\/imperial-students-help-year-12s-and-13s-into-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial students help Year 12s and 13s into medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>More than 170 aspiring doctors have been given an insight into medical school by Imperial\u2019s Muslim Medics society who held their ninth annual \u2018PotMed\u2019 conference last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Potential Medics (\u2018PotMed\u2019) is aimed at ambitious school and college students from all backgrounds keen to study medicine. Taking place on 26 September, PotMed sought to inform and prepare students in Years 12 and 13 on the medical school application process.<\/p>\n<p>A programme \u2018for students, by students\u2019, the day included talks from medical students and doctors; one-to-one advice on personal statements; tips on the UKCAT\/BMAT as well as practice questions; mock interviews and an ethics seminar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything we learnt was really useful and has made me more confident in how I should go about getting into med school,\u201d commented one AS-level student. \u201cI think it\u2019s made me want to be a doctor even more than I had wanted to and I didn\u2019t think it was possible for me to be more keen than I already was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very good, especially the mock interviews because of the good feedback,\u201d said an A2 applicant. \u201cThe talks were all great, especially the one on personal statements, the lectures on interview technique and the role plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PotMed was organised by Qamar Mustafa, president of the Muslim Medics society, supported by a committee of thirteen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are filled with gratitude each year when we hear accounts of students who have been accepted into medical schools across the country because of PotMed,\u201d says Qamar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is particularly pleasing when we meet the new Imperial students who have benefited from our events! We try to educate students on the whole application process, from when they first get the idea to study medicine right through to (hopefully) accepting their offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResponding to the fantastic feedback we receive each year, PotMed continues to inspire and empower students to study medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 170 aspiring doctors have been given an insight into medical school by Imperial\u2019s Muslim Medics society who held their ninth annual \u2018PotMed\u2019 conference last month. Potential Medics (\u2018PotMed\u2019) is aimed at ambitious school and college students from all backgrounds keen to study medicine. Taking place on 26 September, PotMed sought to inform and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16287,281,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-and-meetings","category-student-experience","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}