Breaking down barriers to medicine: five minutes with . . . Emmanuel Oyelami

“Growing up, medicine was something I always wanted to do, but I didn’t know how to get into it. I remember hearing quite a lot that the only people who went into medicine were those who either had someone in their family study medicine or had a very close connection to the medical field.“Edge Hill [University Medical School, which opened in 2019 with a remit to widen the social profile of new medical students1] gave me the opportunity to pursue medicine. At the time we were the first cohort to start at the college. The foundation year is very important, especially if you feel you don’t have the right academic requirements. It helps you think of things in a scientific way and is very useful if you took a few years out of education. It brings you into the routine and academic mind that you need to get into the…
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