You made have read our feature in Muddy Stilettos recently about application numbers for medicine falling for teenagers in the UK. If not you can read it here.

As a parent one of the key takeaways is that desptie application numbers returning to pre-pandemic levels, medicine is still the most competitive programme in the UK.

If your child is considering applying for 2025 entry or beyond, they must master the five key elements of the medical school application.

Applying directly out of Sixth Form is the best chance they have of success (around a 16% success rate).

It is significantly harder for re-applicants, as certain universities will not accept students applying for a second time. And those who take a degree and apply again as graduates have about a 3% chance. In short, the best thing to do is make sure they get it right first time around.

This free webinar is here to give you an idea of applicants will need to do and what you can do as a parent to support your future doctor

(We have a 93% success rate for our students so you’re in safe hands).

Dr Ashley Hilton will be hosting this webinar. He is a dual qualified doctor and dentist, pursuing a career in the very exciting field of Maxillofacial surgery, which involves reconstructions of the face and mouth. Dr Ash attained his medical degree from Cardiff University in 2013. He then decided to pursue a specialty called Maxillofacial surgery, where—in the UK—surgeons have to hold a degree in both medicine and dentistry. To do this, he got onto the most competitive medical course in Europe called the ‘Dental programme for medical graduates’ where 130 people compete for just 10 places. On this programme, delegates complete five-year dental degree in just three years. This was at King’s College London, ranked 1st in the world for dentistry. It was no surprise that he was so successful with his application, given that he has been using the exact same techniques he had been teaching his students for the past several years.

He began helping students get into medical school back in 2010 when Dr Ash (a medical student at the time) was asked by his housemate Stephen—an international student—whether he would help his younger sister with her application to UK medical school. As a favour he happily served as her medical application tutor. After he successfully helped her get into medical school, she asked whether he could help two of her friends. Again, he was successful with getting them in first time around, which started the snowball effect of more and more recommendations, and Future Doc was born.

Since then, it has continued to evolve and grow into the online platform that you see today, with incredible success at getting hundreds of students into their first choice medical schools. Future Doc now has over 100 expert tutors who support students from all across the world.