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We’ll work through each part of the personal statement in turn, and find what can allow you to stand out.
– A good introduction should focus on you as a proactive, high achieving student whose empathy and ethics are driving them towards a career in Medicine. It should not focus on personal experiences in the past, although it may be tempting to include these.
– A good introduction should begin with your motivation. You should look to grab the reader with a clear example of something you’ve done, for example, that has particularly informed your desire to study the degree.
– A good introduction should be succinct. It should not waste words – it should set the scene for the rest of the statement through the use of clear evidence.
– A good introduction should be iterated with your teachers, to ensure that the message that you are trying to convey is clear from the start.
– You should ensure that you touch on anything truly exceptional as soon as you can – for example, if you rowed for GB, then finding a way to include this in the introduction would be recommended. Thread it into your narrative.
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– You need to have work experience in order to write about it. You must therefore secure a range of work experience in good time, before you begin writing the statement. Ideally you should have at least two examples of secondary and tertiary care, one example of primary care, and additionally work in a voluntary setting, like a care home.
– You must reflect on your work experience. Link it back to Medicine, to the attributes of a good doctor, to reading that you’ve done about Medicine. Ensure that you show that you are thoughtful, and that you have given due thought to the career.
– The research section is becoming ever more important as students increase their exposure to research before university, especially with the EPQ now being a feature of so many personal statements. If you’ve done an EPQ, ensure that you reflect on it and appropriately link it to Medicine and your future hopes in the career.
– Further research will set you apart here. That could be work done at a particular place or organisation outside of school, research projects that you took on beyond the EPQ, or even essays that you have written for a national competition that required extensive scientific research. Ideally, you’ll have something published, which you can reflect on and use to show your true passion for research.
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– A good conclusion is typically a short section, perhaps only a couple of sentences, which flows from the previous section that you have written. Ideally, you should already have provided the admissions tutor assessing the statement with an overview of your attributes, and what you know to be important for Medicine. Now, you just need to emphasise your desire, emphasise you understand how difficult it is, and bring together the narrative that you have created.
