Application to Medicine
How we can help
Application Guides
Getting into a UK medical school takes more than grades. The UCAT, work experience, your written application and the interview all carry weight, and each has its own timeline inside a cycle that starts earlier than most people expect. Our guides walk through every stage, from deciding whether medicine is right for you to choosing schools that fit your strengths.
Start with our free guide to the 2027 cycle: what has changed, the dates that matter, and what to do this week.
Courses
The question every interview asks somewhere: why medicine, and why you. How to answer it with your own story rather than a rehearsed speech, and the follow up questions that catch people out.
Meet the Team
Dr Pooja Devani
Founder and Lead Tutor
MBChB BSc MRes MRCPCH
About Me: I’m a paediatric respiratory registrar and the founder of Step2Med. I started it to help people into medicine, whatever their background.
My Role: I’m Lead Tutor for our undergraduate and foundation courses, and I design the courses Step2Med delivers. I also choose every member of our team personally, selecting the people best placed to teach each of the services we offer.
Background: I’ve tutored for more than ten years, coaching applicants through every part of the process. I completed an academic foundation post and an Academic Clinical Fellowship myself, ranking among the highest applicants to secure both, and I teach the SFP and ACF applications from that experience.
Interests: Paediatrics, Education, Learning a new skill regularly.
Dr Niha Hussain
Radiology Trainee, Lead Tutor for Undergraduate Applications
MBChB BSc
About Me: I’m a radiology trainee in the West Midlands. Before that I was an SFP doctor in the East Midlands.
My Role: I’m the Lead Tutor for undergraduate applications, and I teach on the SFP course and run its mock interviews.
Background: I came through the SFP myself, so I teach the application from the inside: what panels actually ask, and what a strong answer sounds like under pressure. I’ve supported medical school applicants for years, from first application to interview.
Interests: Reading, Research, Walking.
