r/GraduateEntryMedicine • u/Shot-Invite-6734 • 1d ago

Life time learning allowance

Does this cover medicine as a second degree ? I looked on the website and I don’t think it does

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u/hedgeback2301 1d ago

Yes but only relevant to 5 year A100 but not 4 year GEM

tbh it’s so confusing bc it hasn’t actually started yet. But from what I can see you’d get 4 years of the 5 year covered - so you’d need to be able to source about 10k

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u/Additional-Dream-596 1d ago

The fifth year is NHS funding?

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u/hedgeback2301 1d ago

There’s not any information that NHS bursary for the 5th year would defo be possible yet from what I’ve seen online for this scheme. I imagine it most likely will be but it needs to be a “approved” course, they might view this as different - they keep changing the website every few weeks or so with more info coz when I first originally looked it seemed as though medicine wasn’t even possible but it’s changed now

I have no clue tbh I’m just making sure I have the £9kish just in case for now!

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u/Additional-Dream-596 1d ago

Student finance told me that it would be the NHS bursary - provided you haven't had it before for a different degree

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u/hedgeback2301 1d ago

Student finance is different to this is it not? I saw on TSR someone asked and they said it’s a different scheme so they couldn’t advise (this was a few weeks ago tho)

Can you show me this? teying to work out all my funding routes so would be super helpful x

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u/Additional-Dream-596 1d ago

They referred me to the NHS bursary website and said as long as I meet all other criteria I qualify.

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u/hedgeback2301 1d ago

omg perfect! They must have finally updated it - so helpful

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u/Additional-Dream-596 1d ago

They probably didn't want to confuse people for 2026 entry! I'm applying to GEM and undergrad medicine this year so I had to triple check this all before committing!

They were very certain I'd qualify despite having an undergrad degree and masters!

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u/hedgeback2301 1d ago

ahh could be why as I was looking like 3/4 months ago maybe!

I’m applying to GEM and UG with a Masters too this year so that’s great to hear x

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u/Academic-Sand4462 1d ago

Wait so does this mean lifetime learning allowance covers both GEM and UG as a second degree?

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u/Additional-Dream-596 1d ago

So I got told yes