Dundee is an excellent place to study medicine, both for the high quality of the teaching programme and for the facilities available. This course is innovative, student-centred and community-based, and follows the recommendations of the General Medical Council, the professional governing body for medicine in the UK. Dundee allows you to study medicine in a friendly, responsive and student-centred environment. You will gain experience of the summative examinations by undertaking formative assessments. During systems in practice, for example, these include the online exam and the anatomy practical exam.  Questions included in these formative assessments are representative of the style of question found in the summative examination and are done under examination conditions. You may be asked to complete a reflective essay, case report or other piece of written work as part of either formative or summative assessment. This assessment method is particularly likely to be used in SSCs or clinical attachments and may form a component of your portfolio. There are lots of good reasons why so many people want to become doctors. Apart from the wide range of career options, and the fact that practising medicine can be very rewarding and fulfilling, another, more prosaic reason perhaps, is the fact that qualifying as a doctor almost guarantees employment – the percentage of medical graduates in employment is at or near 100% irrespective of where in the UK you qualified.