Medicine personal statement | FULL BREAKDOWN

Hi guys, welcome to the channel. Today we’re going to talk about how to write your Medicine personal statement. We start by talking about the technical details of the personal statement (character count, submission deadline), then talk about the 2 reasons why the personal statement is so important to your application. We then summarise how each of the 37 different UK medical schools use the personal statement as part of the application process. Finally, we breakdown my personal statement from top to bottom.

TIMESTAMPS:
1. 02:27 – Technical details of the personal statement (character count, submission deadline)
2. 03:25 – Why is the personal statement so important?
3. 04:19 – How does each UK university use the personal statement as part of the application process?
4. 05:00 – My personal statement
5. 05:22 – Interviewer’s perspective of the personal statement
6. 07:03 – Structure of the personal statement
7. 08:18 – PEE (Point, Evidence, Explanation) writing style with example
8. 10:21 – Full line by line breakdown of my personal statement
9. 18:42 – Summary

Useful resources:

Who am I? My name is Arun, I’m a junior doctor working in London and graduated from Cambridge University 2 years ago. I’ve helped 100s of students over the last 10 years or so get into med school with things like personal statements, picking uni choices, the UCAT & BMAT exams and medical school interviews. I was the lead UCAT & BMAT tutor for Kaplan Test Prep for 5 years and helped write their materials. I started up a company called Easy Medical Interviews to help students for their medical school interviews. I’ve decided to put all my experience over the years onto Youtube now so its completely free for you guys and hopefully you find it useful!

[catherinesullivan]

This is so useful. I’m 41 and applying for graduate entry medicine next year. I will definitely refer back to this when I do my personal statement.

[ArunKiru]

TIMESTAMPS:
1. 02:27 – Technical details of the personal statement (character count, submission deadline)
2. 03:25 – Why is the personal statement so important?
3. 04:19 – How does each UK university use the personal statement as part of the application process?
4. 05:00 – My personal statement
5. 05:22 – Interviewer’s perspective of the personal statement
6. 07:03 – Structure of the personal statement
7. 08:18 – PEE (Point, Evidence, Explanation) writing style with example
8. 10:21 – Full line by line breakdown of my personal statement
9. 18:42 – Summary

[rashareads]

I HATE WRITING I ABSOLUTELY HATE THAT I HAVE TO DO THIS MY GOD AHHHH

[flashk.]

Thank you so much, i literally finished mine in 3 hrs. Just need to tweak it a little and then I'm done.

[zackrussleterrior]

love to watch fellow Indians excel :)) hoping to study medicine in the UK soon!!

[bellal]

Hi Arun, a lot of your personal statement is based on physical work experience/shadowing and travelling that you did. How would you advise people applying during the pandemic to write their personal statement? I was only able to do care work and volunteer in the hospital for a few months, I haven't had much contact with doctors, so I am very nervous :(

[MsMcshe]

I found your videos to be very informative for clear clarification upon how a person can draft their own Persnal Statement.

[xo.elegant]

You earned a subscriber!..well detailed and exactly what i have been looking for. Thanks kiru❤

[jingle]

Amazing content, this gave me a better insight on what I should include and emphasise, thanks for that!

[kevvonkev]

This was super helpful, thank you so much Arun!

[soham]

is it important to include names of work experience and volunteering organisations that you took part in? Or does it make a difference compared to not including the names?

[tasniakazi]

Hi I heard that Nottingham no longer uses personal statement when giving interviews, is this true? Thank you

[hmz]

In MMI interviews would they ask about the personal statement?

[robuxocity]

You sound exactly like the sen kath guy. Does cambridge have an accent or something lol

[skylar]

Hey i just wanted to ask did go to colloge before going to uni because i am planning on applying to medicine from highschool therefore i dont have any work experience. So what would you suggest for me to replace work experience by?

[tanishatanzia]

Which Med schools would you recommend for international students?

[mowfulasajahan]

Hi! This is very informative vdo. Thank you very much
Could you please advice me what kind of things I can include in my SAQ mini personal statement??

[yzhnrnzr]

good tips given, btw what app did you use to review the personal statement?

[es]

Hey do you check personal statements ?

[trickstar]

M8 can we like lie cuz I rlly don't have any work experience and I'm legit so fokin confused rn