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If you want to join the medical world professionally, you’ll need more than a spoonful of experience and the right dose of research to write the perfect personal statement.

Are you interested in a career in healthcare? Whether you're looking at frontline dentistry, nursing, or a behind the scenes in the lab with science and medicine - an apprenticeship can help you get there, bringing practical experience together with academic qualifications, it could be the pathway for you.

Azrah Bashir is in her second year of a clinical trials specialist degree apprenticeship at HMR London (Hammersmith Medicines Research); a company specialising in phase 1 and early phase 2 clinical trials. At the end of her five-year course she will get a BSc Applied Bioscience degree from the University of Kent.

A degree in zoology opens up numerous career options working with or studying animals, or could be a stepping stone into a graduate veterinary medicine course. If it's your degree of choice, here are some personal statement pointers.

Our data explorer shows the different points in the 2018 cycle applicants applied to UCAS Undergraduate

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2019 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2020 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

These data cover applications, offers, and placed applicants by sex, area background, and ethnic group, at 132 larger universities.

Our data reporting 2021 UCAS Undergraduate applicants by week of application

London’s diversity and rapidity will challenge and excite you in equal amounts.

Some universities require you to sit an admissions test as part of the application process – discover the different types of assessment here.

View the advanced practitioner tips from our online International Teachers' and Advisers' Conference.