Undergraduate Subject Focus: Medicine
The UK’s health sector employs around two million people, with around 75 per cent of these working for the NHS. As the world’s largest publicly funded health service, the NHS has over 300 available careers. The constant demand for suitably trained staff means that there are always opportunities on offer across the NHS and the private and voluntary sectors for medicine graduates. There is a vast choice of health-related courses on offer in the UK – in 2008/09, a whopping 188,885 students were enrolled on undergraduate programmes in medicine, dentistry and...

Why undergraduate?
Why undergraduate? If you’re thinking about taking an undergraduate course, you’ve probably already got prospectus after prospectus telling you which undergraduate courses you should go for. Before you start thinking about subjects though, have you thought about why you might want to choose an undergraduate course at all? Studying at undergraduate level can be very different to any learning you might have undertaken before so it’s worth asking yourself if a degree is definitely for you.   Employment prospects You’re much more likely...