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Aspiring to join the medical world professionally? Then you’ll need the right experience to be seriously considered for a place on a medicine course. Getting experience and researching what’s needed in your personal statement should ideally go hand in hand.

The competition is tough for aspiring vets – so along with good grades, you'll need an impressive personal statement that sets you apart from the crowd. Here's how to do it.

Azrah Bashir is in her second year of a clinical trials specialist degree apprenticeship at HMR London (Hammersmith Medicines Research); a company specialising in phase 1 and early phase 2 clinical trials. At the end of her five-year course she will get a BSc Applied Bioscience degree from the University of Kent.

Long hours, intense studying, and the small case of confronting illness and death each day. No wonder medicine has a competitive and demanding reputation.

A degree in animal science opens up numerous career options working with animals, or could be a stepping stone into a graduate veterinary medicine course. If it's your degree of choice, here are some personal statement pointers.

These data cover unconditional offer-making to 18 year olds from England, Northern Ireland, and Wales.

Our data explorer shows the different points in the 2018 cycle applicants applied to UCAS Undergraduate

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2019 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2020 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2021 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

Deciding what to take to uni needs a bit more thought than shoving things into a suitcase and hoping for the best.

London’s diversity and rapidity will challenge and excite you in equal amounts.

Some universities require you to sit an admissions test as part of the application process – discover the different types of assessment here.

If you are unable to make online payment of the UCAS application fee, we can accept payment by bank transfer instead.

View the advanced practitioner tips from our online International Teachers' and Advisers' Conference.