The Site

It started in May 2006 on Google pages. I put together a few experiences and created a quick, easy to access website that really just listed my own personal thoughts. Seven days into the project, the site had over 200 people making around 2000 hits. If it’s still up have a look at the very old site!

Also there were a lot of emails asking me questions which I myself had asked whilst applying for medicine. I decided to go ahead and answer them all and so Med App was born. For the original site, I paid for the web address and that was it. Hosting was free and writing the pages was down to me alone. As a result the only way you could view the site was with Internet Explorer. The pages looked really poorly done and it seemed the only computer the pages would display correctly on was mine! Despite this the site was recording over 1200 people making over 7000 hits per week. In January, the site crashed and the company I was hosting off for free told me to go and find a paid server lol.

In September 2006, I began my first year in medicine. The demands of PBL made me pretty much quit the site. However I lost track of it, until I received an email in January 2007 from the guys who hosted the site telling me I had too much traffic for them. The site was taken down and nothing happened from then up until now, June 2007.

I found a guy in Madagascar who was willing to work on the site. He developed this, something that is easy to use for me, and most importantly will work on every single computer I hope! The site will be kept up-to-date from now on and hopefully will be of use again to many medicine applicants in the future.

About Me

I applied for medicine first in 2004, unfortunately, despite having 3 interviews; I was rejected from medicine that year. With 3A’s at A-level ‘under my belt’, in September 2005 I reapplied to study medicine. In the meantime, I had to find a way to occupy myself for the upcoming gap year. I worked, I travelled and I sold on eBay. I became confident and was able to speak up now, instead of being the timid person I once was in my interviews. My confidence had grown to such an extent that I included Cambridge University as one of my four choices. It was a shame I had forgotten about genetics from A-level biology! I had 3 interviews, proudly telling the interviewers that I had to have a forced gap year and this had made me a much better person. By March 2006 I had 2 unconditional offers, and I firmly chose Liverpool University as my medical school of choice.

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