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Our Ethos

How do we have such success

1. FutureDoc has been helping students since 2010, and has developed a method that has been refined and tweaked over so many years to give the highest chances of success. To find out more about our background & Dr Ash’s experience, please [see here]
2. We are very selective about whom we offer a place on our programme (only about 1/3rd of students applying will be offered to join us). We want to ensure that only those with the right attitude, work ethic and academic potential join us to ensure we maintain our reputation for success. If you are reading this, it’s because we saw something in you that we believe shows the potential to go on and make a great doctor one day.
3. Most importantly, by working as a team and treating you as an individual. When you become part of FutureDoc, your journey becomes our journey. Your application process will be challenging, but together we will equip you with the tools to overcome any obstacles.

Why It Has The Success It Does?

We are incredibly thorough – the first thing we do with the students that we accept onto the programme is sit down together to carry out a long STRATEGY CALL. This is where we will go through the entire application with you and dissect everything from; your grades; which medical school choices are the most tactical and likely to succeed for your situation; the key preparation steps we need to ensure success; making sure we have the right work experience (and arranging some if we don’t); going through your personal statement; making sure we score highly in the UCAT, BMAT and/or GAMSAT; how we’re going to perform well at interviews; EVERYTHING! By the end, we have a robust plan for how we’re going to deliver your individual medical school mentor programme.

We’re highly individual – once we’ve laid out the plan for how we’re going to get your into your dream medical school, we match you with a tutor from a similar background to you (Undergrad/Postgrad, International/Domestic etc…) who is from your first choice medical school. e.g. if you are an international graduate student applying to Oxford, we will pair you with an international graduate student currently at Oxford etc.. You can be guided by someone who has successfully done the exact thing that you are trying to achieve. This way we can give you an inside track on what is required to succeed with applying there. And with that, you get several sessions per month as a minimum… see below for more details on this!

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Our Commitment To Your Future

How We Teach The UCAT, BMAT & GAMSAT

These are often the most stressful parts of the entire application. As we said previously we have several students that joined FutureDoc after previous failed attempts and who have dramatically improved their scores. Our method makes sure that students are organised & prepared in advance for what’s to come. They can maintain their cool during the build-up and steadily increase their scores. Our students can then enter the exam with a calm confidence that, by itself, will improve performance.

Three-phase approach for the aptitude tests

1. Familiarisation; we lay the foundations to understand the material, question types and (most importantly) the fastest and most accurate techniques. Here, we use a combination of online courses and summary videos to consolidate the knowledge, plus 1 ON 1 technique teaching, and ‘deep dive’ lessons, covering each section at a time to ensure we’re starting the process with good baseline knowledge.

2. Practice questions: section-by-section workshops to assess technique & ensure each question type is approached correctly. This is where we implement the fastest & most accurate techniques and hone these skills to ensure that they become second nature. We make sure that we are at the right standard before moving on to phase three.

3. Exam ready: this is where we increase the intensity to help you feel confident. This stage is crucial and is our secret to helping our students achieve scores in the top 5%. Our trick is to regularly test, check results, adjust any technique errors, gradually increase the intensity, and then repeat this cycle. These exams are incredibly time-pressured, and often the most stressful that students have encountered. We regularly calibrate with live mock tests & model answer run-throughs. By gradually acclimatising you to the intensity of the exam, we keep our students focused, cool & methodical when it matters most.

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How We Help With Personal Statements

At FutureDoc, we have developed our own unique five-step method to help you write a personal statement that is individual to you and gets you invited to an interview.

1. Our unique ‘information capture’ form makes sure that you collect all the information that you need to include in your personal statement. This ensures you don’t miss any important bits, or add anything unnecessarily.

2. We give you the basic knowledge to start your first draft through our ‘outstanding personal statement’ course, personal statement workshops, writing style seminars & how to structure your personal statement talks.

3.Write your first draft & submit it to tutor

4. 1 ON 1 Personal Statement review. Dr Hilton will do an interactive video review where he dissects your personal statement sentence by sentence & talks through your recommended changes and rationale for doing so. These reviews are unlimited for Academy students

How We Coach For Interviews

Our interview training is often the most enjoyable part of the process for our students. Once we have secured an interview, our destiny is in our own hands. The ethos behind our training is to make sure that our students are ‘prepared but not rehearsed’. This is the difference between being well-drilled, adaptable & confident, versus a student that regurgitates a pre-canned spiel that they crowbar into questions that don’t fit the answer. This distinguishes a ‘good’ applicant from someone that ‘wow’s’ the interview panel. We have a robust process to make our students’ interview technique bullet-proof.
The biggest mistake that students make is underestimating the interview. In this era of increasing application numbers, more and more students are getting four interviews and no offers. This is not the case for FutureDoc Students.
Once we get our students to the interview stage, we know that—after they’ve gone through our training—it’s simply a matter of converting this final hurdle into an offer. When it comes to their interviews, our students—rather than being nervous—are excited and looking forward to showcasing their new skills.

1. Gain the core knowledge; online courses, group teaching; hot topics teaching; famous cases; medical ethics etc…
2. Practice interview techniques in 1 ON 1 sessions
3. Interview ‘hot seat’: this is where we simulate the pressure of the interview and grill students to identify any areas to work on or gaps in knowledge
4. Online Mock Interview
5. In-Person Mock Interview: this is a dedicated interview day in London, where we put students through several MMI circuits and Panel interviews and give individual feedback on how they performed, before doing a repeat session offering them the chance to build on their feedback.
6. Additional seminars on mindset & body language to help students keep their cool and project confidence on the big day.

How We Help With Work Experience

1. Our seven-step work experience process that, available only to those on our programme, helps students get the right combination and the right kind of work experience to help them stand out

2. We make sure that you’re experienced in the three key areas of work experience

3. We ensure that students meet the requirement for the most stringent university work experience requirements. In fact, we use these as our benchmark to make sure we meet the requirement for all universities. We also give additional individual help with attaining less ‘easy-to-reach’ placements

How We Choose The Right Medical Schools For You

1. We determine what your individual strengths and weaknesses are

2. We ascertain which medical school would most suit your desires & personality

3. We provide you with our exclusive research & guides that are updated regularly throughout every application cycle. We also have University selection workshops and tactical selection seminars you can attend.

4. You will complete an in-depth questionnaire that we will then analyze in-depth
5. You will then attend our ‘tactical selection clinic’: during the UCAS application submission window, during which we sit down with you and decide the best four medical school choices individually for you