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MPT and applying to GEM

I’m Jonny, a third-year MPT student and more importantly for the purpose of this blog, someone trying to get onto a graduate entry medicine (GEM) scheme. I’ll run you through my decision to study medicine, what I’ve done to prove to medical schools that I want to be a doctor and what stage my application …

Medical placements in the Dominican Republic

Abidul Ahad, Curtis Brownrigg, and Ahmed Khan received Cascade funding to undertake medical placements in the Dominican Republic in the second year of their Medical Physiology and Therapeutics BSc course. Below is an extract from their report on their two-week experience. On the 17th June 2018, we flew out to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to undertake …

Career paths

My name is Erica and I am on my final year studying Medical Physiology and Therapeutics (MPT) at the University of Nottingham and I am hoping to study medicine after my MPT degree. I did not go straight onto the MPT course after A-levels, instead I was studying Biomedical Science. In my first year on …

Studying Medical Physiology and Therapeutics (MPT)

Lara from the School of Medicine tells us why she chose to study MPT and what the course is like in this first post on the MPT Life blog. Hi, my name is Lara and I have just finished my second year at the University of Nottingham studying Medical Physiology and Therapeutics (MPT) and I …