I am 21 and a 3rd year Medical student at Oxford University.
Here's some data :
In 11 years, Oxford has accepted one (1 ) student from Romania into the Med school - during which time there have been 920 applications.
That student had already, ( ie: prior to applying to UK Med Schools) gained a Biochemistry degree in Romania with a 92% grade average
That student ( as with any foreign student to UK) then has to pass the preclinical exams in English in eight (8) areas of medicine
both experimentally and theoretically.
Also, the level of Maths required in the undergraduate UK Medical Syllabus is the equivalent of a distinction in ( especially in probability & statistics)
of a foreign Maths degree. Also US and European applicants are often shocked the 40+ hours a week undergraduate study load - until recent years we were expected to sign in 5 mornings a week at 8 30 am and attendance at all lectures was monitored. Cheating is impossible because no papers are marked internally - eg our papers are sent to Cambridge or London to mark and vice versa.
So. the reason I mention this here is be warned about coming to be a doctor in the UK. A friends from Latvia who graduated top in his Medical college has been here
3 years ( and you will not be offered funding, he works as a nurse ) attempting to pass the UK basic registration.
If you want to use your degree elsewhere , the UK admission criteria are much higher than anywhere ( including most schools in the USA )
- so please don't waste your hopes and inter alia - your valuable time - unless you are right at the top.
Anyone who wants to look at our eight pre-clinical papers can post me here and I will e mail a copy of them.
Good luck with your studies!
James, St Johns College & Faculty of Medicine and Surgery , Oxford.
