Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Application Requirements
- 3 Application Timeline
- 4 Aiming For NTU & NUS Medical Programmes? We Can Help!
- 4.1 Comprehensive Admissions Package
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If you are looking to enrol in a medical programme in Southeast Asia, Singapore offers 2 strong programmes from NTU and NUS – both are top universities in Asia and the world.
The NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine alternates between being #1 or #2 in Asia, whereas the NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine has a partnership with Imperial, one of the best medical schools in the world.
As such, the two schools only admit a select few to their programmes each year. While top grades are of paramount importance to gaining admission, they are not enough. A prospective applicant needs to have extensive volunteering, medical shadowing, leadership experiences, as well as be able to speak persuasively about their knowledge of and desire to study medicine in the interview stage.
The competition for spots in these schools pays off: according to the Graduate Employment Survey, 100% of NUS Medicine graduates find employment. In the newer NTU medical programme results are just coming in, but students are vying for a chance to be able to study at Imperial as their partner school.
Here’s everything you’ll need to prepare for if you are looking to get into NTU/NUS medical programmes:
Proclaimed the best medical school in Asia in 2017, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine offers students an active, collaborative and engaging curriculum with top-notch practical and theoretical experiences
Application Requirements
Singapore’s second medical school, NTU Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine prides itself with its partnership with Imperial College London. Having been officially established in 2017, the NTU School of Medicine offers an innovative curriculum with plentiful practical and professional opportunities.
Application Requirements
Your standard applicant can start preparing as soon as JC1/IB Year 1, it not earlier. This is because profile building activities work better over a longer period of time.
If you eyes were set on medical schools, you can start preparing as early as Sec 3/4.
Getting into medical schools is not an easy feat – especially when you are caught up in busy school works and extracurricular activities.
At Prep Zone, we offer a wide range of admissions packages to assist you in your medical school admissions journey.
Whether it’s application management, school shortlisting, essay editing, standardised test preparation or interview preparation, our consultants will go above and beyond to help you get into the schools of your dream.
Get in touch with us today, and realize your aspiration with us!
Our comprehensive package includes unlimited consultation from the time you sign up, till the time you receive your offers. You would be assigned a primary consultant who will schedule regular check-ups and keep track of your timeline and progress.
The comprehensive package includes the following services:
On top of the regular check-up meetings, your personal consultant will always be available to you via call, email, or WhatsApp messages. The personal consultant will ensure that you are on track with your applications, deadlines, as well as extracurricular and academic commitments.
Doctor shadowing, including virtual shadowing programs. Most of our students do several different programs. The shadowing can be supplemented with relevant independent readings (which we also recommend) to help develop your knowledge of the profession.
Demonstrated interest in sciences beyond your school science classes. We work with students to identify opportunities and determine what’s feasible for their schedules, but one of the things many students do is the Prep Zone Medical Society. It is a biweekly program via Zoom we started at the beginning of the pandemic to ensure that students could be in a medical extracurricular club.
Relevant and sustained volunteering – We work with some organisations that help students do volunteering, including virtual options. The virtual volunteering activities have really helped applicants stand out and build great experiences for their essay and interviews. The main thing to keep in mind is that despite the pandemic, applicants need to keep working on this even if it’s online.
If you have questions filling in the online application, we are here to help.
We can give feedback on the content you’re going to give your teacher for the letter of recommendation.
Including all resumes required for volunteering, internship, or summer school applications.
A competitive PS essay would demonstrate strong motivation, personal reflection, emotional IQ and soft skills, as well as learning lessons from prior medical experiences. Successful candidates would go through many revisions before writing the perfect essay. Our consultants help with all parts of the essay writing — from brainstorming, to drafting, revising, and proofreading.
The mock interviews cover all the main topics that a real interview will usually cover, such as:
We will provide written feedback to the applicant in a document after each session. This may also include additional reading materials to fill knowledge gaps. The various consultants will also have access to each applicant’s feedback document, so everyone is aware of the applicant’s progress.
Our interview consultants include experienced admissions consultants, advanced medical students, and trainers with backgrounds in the sciences. All of them have gone through our training to prepare students for medical school interviews.