10 Reasons Why MedView Stands Out Above Other Med School Admissions Companies
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As the leading med school admissions support, MedView Education takes med school admission to a new level - through personalised admission support, application review, entrance exam and interview tutoring, and extracurricular mentoring. We have a proven track record of success and increase a student's chances of getting into med school across Australia, New Zealand and UK by up to 350%. Let’s take a deep dive into what makes MedView stand out above the rest.
1. The leading med school admissions experts
At MedView, we go out of our way to source and recruit the high achieving current medical schools. Our tutors, mentors and strategists are all currently studying or have studied at your dream medical schools, achieving top grades in high school, university, and the entrance exam - UCAT, BMAT, ISAT and MMI interview. In other words - our experts have been there and done that and know from first-hand experience what it takes to get in and succeed.
Pathways to Med at the University of Sydney: Academic Insights
2. Support in every aspect of the admissions process
While many competitors offer exam or interview preparation, we surround our students with a team of hand-picked experts who focus on strategy, academic tutoring, exam preparation, application support, extracurricular activities and interview training. Most importantly, every one of our students is paired with an expert student success manager who oversees the entirety of their journey with MedView, helping them stay on track and progress towards success in each area.
Why do we surround our students with such a robust team of experts? Because we know they need the support of a team of people and specialists in order for them to have the best chance of success. If you’re told by other companies that one UCAT course, can do it all, the truth is it can’t. Your child has one shot at their med school applications, so we want to make sure they get the support they deserve and will maximise their chances.
3. Our student success
At MedView we measure our success by that of our students - so when we are able to report that our students are 3.5x more likely to gain admission into medical school than the general applicant, we are simply proud to have been part of their journey. This year more than ever, we are honoured to say our students had the best-med school admission round to date. We cannot wait to see what our next round of application students can achieve in the year to come.
4. Application support
Aiming for Oxford, Cambridge or the University of Sydney? There are just three of the schools our application mentors have or are currently studying at. Our experts know that how you apply to medical school matters just as much as your grades. Our application support includes a full application review, leaving no stone unturned. We look at your grades, and entrance exam results and help you apply to the medical school of your dreams strategically to ensure you maximise your chances of getting in. Our application mentors' insider knowledge is invaluable in the highly competitive landscape of medical school admissions, where the smallest detail can make the biggest difference.
Ready to start your med school application journey? Book a free consultation with our advisors to learn more about how MedView can help you!
Owen Chen's Journey to Med School
5. Student Success Manager
We understand that getting into medical school is complex and the work expectation is extreme, so upon onboarding, with MedView each student receives a Student Success Manager - the lynchpin of a student's admissions journey. They built a student roadmap, communicate upcoming deadlines and ensure parents are aware of their child's progress and appoint the team to the student. Unlike our competitors, we dedicate resources to helping you with the admin of med school admissions, so you can avoid time wasting, confusion and stress from the journey and focus on supporting your child.
6. Leading med school education technology
While the expertise of our tutors, mentors and strategists sets us aside as a company dedicated to a highly skilled and individually crafted experience for every student, it is our technology that makes the experience flawless in its student progress and communication. We have invested heavily in technology that operates on many levels. All our students are matched to their team based on a sophisticated psychometric testing process that aims to make the most out of their MedView team experience.
Further, all students receive access to MedView Spark our learning management platform where students can self-study, practice or review entrance exams and interview content set in tutoring sessions or themselves. MedView Spark gives students access to a diagnostic test to understand their baseline level of performance which is then shared with their Student Success Manager, a personalised study plan is created based on a student's exam and interview date and results of the diagnostic test to ensure students have a study partner to help them prepare and stay focused.
This platform gives students access to 3,500+ practice questions for the entrance exams and interviews, including 10 full mock entrance exams. The platform gives students personalised feedback on what areas they need to improve on as well as a realistic testing experience including accurate exam scoring so students have no surprises on test day. Parents also receive access to a weekly email with high-level key metrics of their child’s performance so they can keep track as well.
MedView Spark is now available to the public without the purchase of additional MedView services!
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7. Community
We strongly oppose the cutthroat competitive stressful environment and instead, MedView students have the opportunity to work collaboratively in our group workshops and classes where they can meet like-minded individuals and MedView Alumni to grow their own personal connections and friendships.
Our alumni network grows every year with many of our older students tutoring those coming after them. Our MedView community binds these connections together, reaching across Australia, New Zealand and the UK to enrich their lives and opportunities around the world.
8. Hundreds of raving reviews and testimonials
We are honoured to showcase some amazing testimonials and video reviews from current and former MedView students and their families. We are very proud to report that our service has rated an average of 4.9 out of 5 in reviews.
9. Founders that have been there, done that
We are proud that MedView was founded in 2007 by current medical students Dr Chen Luo and Dr Howshin Tsao in Auckland, New Zealand with the ambition to change the landscape of medical school admissions by empowering students to develop their candidacy holistically to go on to become top doctors with lifelong leadership, skills and connections!
Day in the Life of an ENT Doctor (Dr Chen Luo)
10. You want more - we’ve got it!
Unlike many companies, we hire talented staff who specialize in the different areas you need support with - UCAT exams, interviews, applications, and extracurriculars. We have over 400 tutors, mentors, strategists and student success managers, meaning we can tap into the expertise of our team to ensure your child receives the very best support for their dream medical school.
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Interested in learning more about how MedView can help your child with medical school admissions support? Schedule a free 1:1 consultation with one of our Med School Advisors. They are looking forward to meeting you and showing you how MedView can help you get into your dream medical school.
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The UCAT
The UCAT, or the University Clinical Aptitude Test is the medical school admission test required for many universities in Australia and New Zealand. The UCAT is designed to assess applicants for the aptitude, attitudes and beliefs required of a doctor. In order to defeat the UCAT - we should understand what it is. First off, it’s a two hour computer based exam. There are 5 separately timed subtests - Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, Abstract Reasoning and Situational Judgement. In this blog we break down each of the sections and offer guidance on how to prepare for this important exam.
Verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning is meant to assess your ability to read something and draw appropriate conclusions. You can see why this would be important to a doctor - you’re part of a multidisciplinary team and will have to communicate effectively. In addition, doctors have to keep current with new research and draw reasonable conclusions from published findings. Decision making involves 11 text excerpts with 4 questions each, meaning this section has 44 questions in 21 minutes - that means an average of 29 seconds per question. That doesn’t even take reading the stem into account!
Decision Making
Decision Making is essentially data interpretation from graphs, tables, text and charts. You don’t need to have background knowledge on any subject, because part of what they’re testing is your ability to understand new information. Can you think of a time a doctor might have to do the same? This section has 29 questions in 31 minutes - an average of 64 seconds per question. Compare the timing of section to verbal reasoning, it’s more than double. Consider the length of time per question as an indication of how much the test writers want you to analyse.
Quantitative Reasoning
Quantitative Reasoning is a straightforward mathematics section - there are nine scenarios each with four questions. You’ll have access to an on screen calculator - which is functional but pretty clunky! You’ll have to strike a balance between using mental maths to be quick, and keeping your wits about you, and staying accurate. This section has 36 questions in 24 minutes - an average of 40 seconds per question. It’s not a lot of time to question your maths abilities!
Abstract Reasoning
Abstract Reasoning is used to evaluate your ability to locate patterns and understand logic, separate from your language abilities. If you’ve seen the guides online with pictures asking you to find a pattern - that’s abstract reasoning. This section is sometimes hard for students to grasp, because it’s such a different set of skills. It’s also probably the biggest struggle with time management. This section has 55 questions in 13 minutes - that’s only 14 seconds per question. Don’t even think about going into this section unprepared!
Situational Judgement
Situational Judgement assesses your judgement and character in different situations - the situations are usually clinical or education based. Either situations you’ve likely been in, or a situation you could be involved in future. Then you’ll have to evaluate the appropriateness, importance or consequences of the situation. It’s one way for universities to evaluate the characteristics that are important for future doctors! Situational Judgement has 69 questions in 26 minutes - an average of 25 seconds per question.
With so much to do - how can I set myself up for success?
Prepare
This sounds like a no brainer, but preparation is the most important thing you can do if you want to succeed on the UCAT. Going over questions is one thing but the most effective thing you can do is to practice under exam conditions. That means doing computer based exams - so when you get to test day, you know what to expect. Luckily MedView has a bank of questions.
Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Time is a precious resource when you’re preparing for medical school admissions - you have to continue doing well in your studies, prepare yourself for an interview, and master a new exam. There’s not infinite time - so you have to learn how to study smarter, not just harder. So many students waste their time by continuing to drill skills that they’ve already mastered. It’s important to identify the weak points that need more TLC.
Learn Skills
Each type of question requires a specific psychometric approach to understand and answer so quickly. Skills and strategies to identify the problem and solve the challenging question are essential for success. MedView has a range of 1:1 tutoring, group workshops, practice exams and questions alongside our spiral learning curriculum to help students develop the skills necessary to succeed in time conditions. Our UCAT students are 5x more likely to receive an interview offer.
Sitting full-length practice exams under simulated conditions is the most effective preparation for developing UCAT skills. As this will familiarise yourself with the extreme time pressures, as well as allowing you to practise concentrating on psychometric skills for two hours. It is also important to practice using the computer-based platform that will be used when you sit UCAT as well.
Seek Help
Find friends that have taken the test before and ask for their experience. Better yet, schedule a free Academic Assessment with MedView today! When you start your journey as a MedView student, you are allocated an Education Coordinator who has experience helping hundreds of students get into med school. They’ll help you stay on track with your goals, offer you support, and help you succeed on your path to medical school.
Next Steps
The UCAT is an important exam that is key to medical school admission for undergraduates. We recommend starting your UCAT preparation early and integrating it into your study load to give yourself the best opportunity to succeed. If you’d like to learn more about the UCAT or how to get into Medical School, check out our free eBooks and blogs!
- What is the UCAT?
- How Universities use your UCAT Results
- A Quick Guide to Australia Medicine eBook
- A Quick Guide to New Zealand Medicine eBook
- How to Prepare for the UCAT
- What UCAT scores will get me into med?
MedView offers a range of UCAT preparation courses as well as personalised 1:1 tutoring with our expert team. If you would like to know more about the UCAT and how MedView can help, get in touch today.
What can you do before the year starts?
Before the year starts, it is vital that you understand that the journey to becoming a doctor is a long and arduous process. Medicine is a life-long commitment whose pathway extends beyond the 6 years of study. It includes a progression from a house officer to a registrar, and application onto training schemes if you opt for the surgical pathway.
The vast majority of people who apply for medicine, do not have a clear picture of what they want to do in the future. This uncertainty is not something to worry about now – you have plenty of time to figure out exactly what you want to do. There is something in medicine for everyone. If you are still uncertain about the medical pathway beyond the 6 years of study, I would recommend doing further research.
Another thing you can do over the summer break is to identify your motivation to become a doctor. If it’s for the money, you may not be in the correct profession - it will be at least 10-12 years until you start earning the big bucks that all doctors are known for! If you have an inherent nature to help people and seek to make our society healthier, then you are on the right track.
Once your head is in the right place, enjoy your summer! The year will belong, and you will have to make social sacrifices to make your studies a priority. Make the most of the time you have by seeing friends and family, as you will inevitably see less of them throughout the year. You are likely to experience burnout sometime during the year, so optimising your rest now is important.
The single most effective way to distance yourself from your competitors is to start early and hard. After you have rested throughout December and into the new year, it is time to get started and get ahead. The Flying Start Course offered by MedView was my ticket to success. It is a highly intensive programme starting in late January that covers the first 6 weeks of content for the three core papers in the first semester. The advantages of this course are numerous:
- The most valuable aspect of Flying Start is the content covered. As the first semester contains 3 out of the 4 core papers, it is so important to get a good start. An early lapse within the first few weeks can completely derail your entire year. Being exposed to similar content ahead of time builds your confidence and gives you the opportunity to begin learning before others.
- There is a radically different teaching style from high school to university. Flying Start emulates the style you are accustomed to, while simultaneously teaching university material. This eases your transition and places students into a more comfortable and familiar environment.
- You can meet other motivated people. You may have heard the horror stories of people sabotaging each other, taking their notes and hiding their bags. While these are mostly exaggerated, there will still be those who resort to other measures to gain an advantage. The people doing Flying Start will be motivated just like you, and eager to get ahead. Working together and building these strong relationships before the year starts means that you have a better support group in place. I have met several bright individuals who were passionate and together, we were able to navigate the difficult year and succeed as a group!
MedView believes in a holistic approach to medical school admissions, meaning we surround the student with a team of experts to help develop their candidacy and skills in all three major pillars in their journey to medical school, and now it’s even more accessible with the MedView Hub App!
Over the last decade there’s been a mass adoption of smartphones and a shift in the way people behave online and communicate. Australians are spending more time online, often using multiple screens, and consuming vast amounts of content each day. And it’s only going up!
Recent figures show that almost eight out of ten Australians use social media, and 87% of them use their mobile phones to access it. Fifty-nine percent of Australians access social media everyday or most days, and over a third of people check social media more than five times per day.
We often go online to chat with friends and family, share photos, or be entertained by cat videos. But the very same platforms we use to socialise can also be used to gather knowledge that we can apply in our offline lives. One of the areas where users can reap the benefits is online communities. MedView prides themselves on finding the best tutor, strategist or consultant for each student whether they be in Australia, New Zealand or the United Kingdom and having an online community platform allows even more core benefits for our students in a shorter amount of time. Now students can access over 320 tutors, strategists and consultants and get answers to their Synapse questions, interact in exclusive workshops, and most importantly make friends. The meaningful relationships with other members of the community increases knowledge and collective wisdom.
The MedView Hub App is our own online community platform for students, parents, tutors, and alumni to create a network of opportunities to participate in smart, focused conversation on specific medical school admissions topics (unlike the Instagram and Facebook chatter).
Over the last decade there’s been a mass adoption of smartphones and a shift in the way people behave online and communicate. Australians are spending more time online, often using multiple screens, and consuming vast amounts of content each day. And it’s only going up!
Recent figures show that almost eight out of ten Australians use social media, and 87% of them use their mobile phones to access it. Fifty-nine percent of Australians access social media everyday or most days, and over a third of people check social media more than five times per day.
We often go online to chat with friends and family, share photos, or be entertained by cat videos. But the very same platforms we use to socialise can also be used to gather knowledge that we can apply in our offline lives. One of the areas where users can reap the benefits is online communities. MedView prides themselves on finding the best tutor, strategist or consultant for each student whether they be in Australia, New Zealand or the United Kingdom and having an online community platform allows even more core benefits for our students in a shorter amount of time. Now students can access over 320 tutors, strategists and consultants and get answers to their Synapse questions, interact in exclusive workshops, and most importantly make friends. The meaningful relationships with other members of the community increases knowledge and collective wisdom.
The MedView Hub App is our own online community platform for students, parents, tutors, and alumni to create a network of opportunities to participate in smart, focused conversation on specific medical school admissions topics (unlike the Instagram and Facebook chatter).
Find out more and begin your journey to medical school by speaking with a MedView Academic Advisor for free today!
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