What options are there apart from medicine?

There are many options available! You can consider the following:

• Apply for Optometry, Pharmacy, or Medical Imaging 

• Switch to Nursing

• Continue with your BSc in Biomedical Science or Health Science

• Switch to medical science dominant degrees: BSc (Physiology) or BSc (Pharmacology) etc.

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If you’re still keen on medicine, you can consider postgraduate entry into medicine (upon completion of a Bachelor's Degree). Audiology and Speech Language Therapy are also postgraduate options.

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Optometry, Pharmacy, Medical Imaging, Nursing, Audiology, and Speech Language Therapy, along with Medicine (MBChB), are specialist clinical degrees involving patient interaction. They have a clinical element, with their own unique papers and a different degree structure; e.g. have 30-point papers (normal papers are usually worth 15 points).

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If you aren't interested in clinical pathways, the following majors have MEDSCI papers as part of their core papers:'

• Biomedical Science: Here

• Physiology: Here

• Pharmacology: Here

• Medicinal Chemistry: Here​

Other: Bioscience Enterprise: Postgrad. Diploma | Masters