Get into Medical School - Write the perfect personal statement: Effective techniques & over 100 examples of real successful personal statements (UCAS Medicine)

Very sensible and helpful advice that is succinct and related in down to earth language. The first part of the book provides general guidelines for writing your personal statement and structuring it appropriately. These are helpful and a lot of the advice is common sense but it is still good to have it retold. The bulk of the book is full of actual personal statements that students have successfully applied and been accepted into medical schools with. These are then further split into two sections.The first selection of personal statements are all followed by a critique of their positive and negative attributes and suggestions for improvement. I found the analysis and breakdown of the statements very helpful. By the time a student has gathered all their information together and are ready to start writing their statement they invariably find that they have too much. The analysis of statements in this book helped by helping you become more critical or ruthless when it comes to getting the word count down e.g. remove flowery language, don't be verbose, does that sentence actually tell the medical admissions officer anything about the applicant? There is also information as to which medical schools accepted that particularstatement which is interesting as I didn't realize that it can help to tailor your statement to particular medical schools; as some place a greater emphasis on academics while others may play greater importance on evidence of a wide range of experiences.The latter half of the book has more examples of personal statements but these are not critiqued.I enjoyed reading the book. It goes without saying that all medical applicants are invariably bright, have similar experiences, skills and interests so the challenge is how can you stand out from the crowd? This book offers plenty of examples and suggestions.

Bought this book near the end of summer as I had no personal statement written as of then and I had to have a draft in for the start of September. I had tried many times to write one but I had no idea where to begin and what to put in it. This book had a 100 examples of personal statements to read and they help you to formulate new ideas and give you ways to put your words down on the page. It even takes you step by step through writing it which I thought was really useful. I got the first draft written pretty quickly with this book and I my personal statement turned out really well, it flowed nicely, had structure and was well written even though I wasn't confident with it's content. This even book helped me to say my work experience, extra curriculars and such in a way to make it sound more impressive which is good. Unfortunately I cannot comment on how successful I was with said personal statement because in the end I decided not to do medicine - sorry! I do think I would have done quite well with it if I had applied though and so would recommend this.

I bought this for my sister prior to her applying for med school, which she has now been accepted to!I would recommend this book to any prospective med student as it will help you construct your application - and in this competitive field, it's important to give yourself every advantage and understanding.Good luck!

I felt like some of the advice in this book was a bit outdated, and non-specific. It didn't really delve into detail about the PS different medical schools like. For example, a PS for Cambridge should typically be more academic, than one for somewhere like Manchester which should be a bit more about communication/empathy etc.But the examples in this book are golden for helping you to write your own. Sometimes I'd just hit mental blocks when writing mine, but reading though some examples in here was really helpful. Don't get discouraged though! Most of the examples in here are exceptional!This is a must-have for any medic!

When I sat down to write my personal statement I had on idea where to start, and the task felt unbelievably daunting. This book takes you through the entire process, in a simple step-by-step manner, which is very easy to follow. It isn't a recipe for a cookie-cutter personal statement, which would just be thrown on the pile with everyone elses - instead, it allows you to reflect on your experiences and suggests ways to include them.It has lots of examples, which covers both undergraduate and graduate entry personal statement, and points of the best parts of each.This book takes you from blind panic, all the way through to a finished piece, and was definitely one of the major factors in my getting in to medical school

To me the Personal Statement seems likely to be more important for Medicine than for any just about other subject. Not only is competition intense, but admissions tutors are looking for a number of personal qualities that can shine through or be clearly lacking in what a student writes. Though I'm not sure any PS exists will appeal to all the admissions tutors all the time I think it is hugely useful to have a book with a large number of real PS's thoroughly critiqued. Easy to get four rejections from Med Schools so it's madness not to pay a little for something like this and take from it what you will.

This one stop book, helped with all the questions my son had about writing hos personal statement. Would definitely recommend it.

This book was definately a big help for me when writing my personal statement. Coming from a small comprehesive school and the only one to apply to medicine in a couple of years i wasn't offered much help from teachers.It provides information on how to set out your personal statement and how to start the daunting task. It then gives you loades of examples to read through and get ideas from about particular topics.It obviosly helped me write a good statement aswell as i got interviews at 3/4 places i applied to.I would definately reccomend to anyone writing a personal statement for any medical schools.