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Explore your pathway to a career in medicine with Your Med Future. 

Applying to medical school can be a daunting experience. Your Med Future, hosted on the NHS Scotland Careers website, is an exciting new resource aimed at supporting aspiring Scottish medical students. The hub, developed by the Enhancing Medical Attraction (EMA) Team at NHS Education for Scotland, provides applicants with the information, confidence, and encouragement they need to apply to one of the 5 medical schools in Scotland.

Find out more about Your Med Future.

Your Med Future will help you discover everything you need to know about applying to a Scottish medical school, including: 

• Understanding the application and admissions process.
• Exploring your study options and how to make the most of medical school open days.
• Planning your application, including tips on personal statements, aptitude tests and interviews.
• Staying on track with key application deadlines, including the UCAS submission date in October. 

The hub is designed to provide information and advice to individual applicants and their career influencers by curating links to an accurate, informative set of reliable sources.  

So, if you are considering a career in medicine and want some guidance and key information to help you along your journey, make sure you explore Your Med Future.

Career influencers

Are you supporting potential applicants with their career decision-making and keen to find out more about a career in medicine? Check out our resources for career influencers.

We encourage you to bookmark Your Med Future, which will continue to evolve as we develop new online resources and further content in collaboration with users, medical schools, and our medical workforce. 

Explore your pathway to a career in medicine with Your Med Future. 

Applying to medical school can be a daunting experience. Your Med Future hub - hosted on the NHS Scotland Careers website – is an exciting new set of webpages aimed at supporting aspiring Scottish medical students. The information hub, developed by the Enhancing Medical Attraction (EMA) team at NHS Education for Scotland, provides applicants with the information, confidence, and encouragement they need to apply to one of the 5 medical schools in Scotland.  

Your Med Future will help you discover everything you need to know about applying to a Scottish medical school: 

• Understanding the application and admissions process.
• Exploring your study options and how to make the most of medical school open days.
• Planning your application, including tips on personal statements, aptitude tests and interviews.
• Staying on track with key application deadlines, including the UCAS submission date in October. 

Your Med Future is designed to provide information and advice to individual applicants, and their career influencers, by curating links to an accurate, informative set of reliable sources of information.  

So, if you are considering a career in medicine and want some guidance and key information to help you along your journey, make sure you explore Your Med Future. 

Are you supporting potential applicants with their career decision-making and keen to find out more about a career in medicine? Visit the career influencer resource page.

We encourage you to bookmark these pages, which will continue to evolve as we develop relevant online resources and further content. 

Are you a parent or carer supporting a young person with their career journey into medicine? At NHS Scotland, we aspire to be the future employer of choice for Scottish medical students, and we recognise the incredible role you play in supporting and inspiring those who want to become our future doctors. 

Introducing the Your Med Future hub, a new microsite which provides resources, tools and tips to help you offer advice and guidance to aspiring medical students. 

The hub, developed by the Enhancing Medical Attraction (EMA) team in NHS Education for Scotland, provides applicants with the information, confidence, and encouragement they need to apply to one of the five medical schools in Scotland.  

Your Med Future will help applicants discover everything they need to know about applying to a Scottish medical school, including: 

understanding the application and admissions process. 

exploring their study options and how to make the most of medical school open days. 

planning their application, including tips on personal statements, aptitude tests and interviews. 

staying on track with key application deadlines, including the UCAS submission date in October. 

The hub is designed to provide information and advice to individual applicants by curating links to an accurate, informative set of reliable sources of information. We encourage parents and carers to use the Your Med Future hub as a foundation for guiding and navigating your young person through their journey to applying for medical school. 

You can visit the Your Med Future career influencer hub which has been designed with parents, carers and educators in mind by clicking the link below:  

here 

Guidance and key information for applicants can be found here.  

We encourage you to bookmark these pages, which will continue to evolve as we add links to relevant online resources and further content. 

Are you an NHS Scotland employee supporting a young person or career changer on their journey into medicine? 

Can you help your local board and NHS Scotland become the employer of choice for Scottish medical students? 

You can help us by introducing and promoting Your Med Future. This hub provides accurate, up-to-date information, resources, tools, and tips to help you offer advice and guidance to aspiring medical students. 

The hub, developed by the Enhancing Medical Attraction (EMA) team within NHS Education for Scotland (NES), provides applicants with the information, confidence, and encouragement they need to apply to one of the five medical schools in Scotland.  

Your Med Future will help applicants discover everything they need to know about applying to medical school in Scotland, including: 

understanding the application and admissions process 

exploring their study options and how to make the most of medical school open days 

planning their application, including tips on personal statements, aptitude tests and interviews 

staying on track with key application deadlines, including the UCAS submission date in October 

hearing real-life journeys from NHS scotland staff  

The hub is designed to provide information and advice to individual applicants by curating links to an accurate, informative set of reliable sources of information.  

We encourage NHS Scotland staff to use Your Med Future as a foundation for guiding and navigating applicants through their journey to medical school. The hub will continue to evolve as we add links to relevant online resources and further content. 

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