So you want to be a doctor?
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Medify
Lots of useful stuff on getting into medical school, site is organised as a year planner with important deadlines, and there are also practice BMAT and UKCAT papers available.
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Mosaic
Mosaic is a Wellcome Trust site which publishes a new story every week, includes many interesting articles on medicine and the human body, great for background / extra reading.
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Ola Orekunrin at TED
TED talk by Dr Ola Orekunrin, a doctor who set up an air ambulance service in Nigeria.
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Science News for Students
Good source of news stories on Health topics written for secondary students, with links to original papers and glossaries. Recent articles include Zika virus and dangers of E-cigs.
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Seeing inside dead bodies
Magazine article from BBC News highlighting the work of histopathologists and explaining what happens at a post mortem.
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Step into the NHS
NHS careers website – not just doctors!