DecisionNeeded\" post_id=\"2134367\" time=\"1716888947\" user_id=\"204810:Good Day!
Hi Mother777, would you share which uk medical schools your daughter has applied to? My gal is not successful for local schools but receives offer from the uk. not sure about letting her go all by herself. Still hope to reapply as the uk costs are really high. but your post on uk uni encourages us. Thank you!
I will PM you with details of the medical school my daughter interviewed for.
So, if I understand correctly, your daughter already has an offer from UK med school? and it is recognized by SMC?
As far as I have heard, all UK med universities are GMC recognized and their course curriculum is standardized to meet the GMC requirement. But for Singaporeans who want to come back to practice, the choices are limited to UK universities recognized by SMC.
I live overseas, so my DD was not restricted by only going to SMC recognized colleges. The UK med school she got offer was recognized in the overseas country we live in.
UK has a large presence of Asians and the university I visited (2.5hrs train ride from London) had a very diverse cohort.
So, fear not, if your DD gets UK interview and offer thereafter - I suggest you give it a serious consideration. Please do consider the financial obligations are lot heftier than SG med school. We definitely would have had to take loans to fund her course fee and living expenses - but this was secondary to the passion our DD had to study medicine.
To me - it was like making a choice between - saving money now and give children an inheritance OR give them a career now so that they can earn their own by working in domain they love? The choice was clearly the later one.
I had actually paid the initial deposit bond to reserve the seat for my DD as she got UK offer before SG one. I do not regret losing the bond as it was our back-up plan. Going to UK, attending their interview and securing the offer was a morale booster for my DD. She came back so confident to attend the SG interviews.
I wish you and your DD - the best!!