The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor

All you need to know about becoming a doctor in the UK

This book contains all the help you need to become a doctor. From applying to medical school through to choosing your specialty, you can find out: 

• How to choose a medical school
• How to get into medical school
• How to survive as a medical student
• All about electives
• What life is like as a doctor

As well as easy to follow information on choosing, getting into - and surviving - medical school, junior doctors in different specialties provide unique insight with firsthand accounts of what the job is like in real life, to help you plan and decide your future career path. 

Included in this fully updated third edition is the latest information on admission tests, an admission table with practical details about each medical school (as well as greater coverage of graduate medical schools), making this now even more comprehensive for everyone planning a career in medicine.

Adrian Blundell is a Consultant inHealth Care of the Elderly and General Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Richard Harrison is a General Practitioner in Windsor

Benjamin W. Turney is a Clinical Lecturer in Urology at the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford