How are you going to tackle…

The seven hurdles of a med school application?

GCSEsUCATUCASInterviewsA levels Work experienceMotivation and inspiration

GCSEs. The UCAT. The UCAS application. The interview. A levels. And underneath all of it, from Year 10 to Year 13, finding work experience and keeping your teen motivated. Three people apply for every place. The grades get your teen into the pile. The work experience and the curiosity get them an interview.

The Med School Roadmap is a 12-month programme that walks your teen over all seven hurdles, at the right time for their year group. It mixes live-stream talks, lectures and Q&A, online tutors, revision bootcamps, exam practice and a library full of inspiration.

Not sure yet? Tom runs a free hour online every Wednesday at 7:45pm that walks you over all seven hurdles. Start there.

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What the Med School Roadmap is

An online programme your teen is part of for 12 months. Five things make it up.

Weekly live streams

Two live sessions a week, online. Tuesday is for everyone: Tom on something from medicine that makes teenagers lean in. Thursday is for your teen's year group: exam and application sessions for Years 10 and 11, and for Years 12 and 13, with tutors who are current medical students.

See how a week works

Bootcamps

Four times a year, a short burst of live sessions on consecutive nights, in the weeks before something that counts: mocks, exams, the UCAT, the UCAS deadline.

Check out the four bootcamps

The Exam Lab

Exam questions for every science, every exam board, marked in seconds against the real mark scheme, with feedback on where the marks went. Your teen practises every topic as they study it. You see the reports.

See inside the Exam Lab

The Academy

Over 75 hours of online content: interviews with real health professionals that count as work experience, how medicines work, how medical kit works, what diseases do. A certificate for every topic finished.

See inside the Academy

Access to Tom and his team of med school tutors

Get expert guidance throughout the year when you need it most: on revision, curriculum content and the application process. Our tutors are current medical students who have been exactly where your teen is now.

Meet the team

What your teen gets out of it

Access to current medical students who answer their questions and give insights you won't find anywhere else
Better grades in the sciences, because they practise exam questions every week with feedback, not just before the exam
Work experience done, written up and ready to use, without waiting on a hospital that never replies
A UCAT plan that starts at the right time and a tutor through the summer
A personal statement drafted, reviewed and submitted before the mid-October deadline
Interview practice with people who have sat the other side of the table
Four years of still wanting to do it, because every Tuesday reminds them why

How a week works

Live streams on Tuesday and Thursday.

Tuesday, 7pm, everyone

The inspiration session, with Tom

One idea from medicine, told properly: a drug, a disease, a piece of kit, or a guest from the NHS talking about their job. Forty minutes, then questions. This is the session that keeps your teen interested through four years of exams.

Example: why methanol blinds you, and why the antidote is vodka. The liver turns methanol into formic acid, which attacks the optic nerve. Ethanol uses the same enzyme and the enzyme prefers it, so a controlled dose of alcohol stops the conversion while the kidneys clear the methanol.

Thursday, 7pm, Years 10 and 11

The GCSE session, with a tutor

Our tutors are current medical students who were sitting these exams a few years ago. One topic that is on every exam board: the tutor teaches the thinking for twenty minutes, everyone does questions from their own board in the Exam Lab, and the second half goes through the answers people got wrong.

Example: six-mark questions, and why students who understand the science still lose four of the six marks.

Thursday, 8pm, Years 12 and 13

The A level and application session

Some weeks it's A-level science with a tutor, the same way as the GCSE session. Some weeks it's Tom on whatever is next for this year group: work experience write-ups, the UCAT, choosing medical schools, the personal statement, interview practice. The booklet says which is which.

Example in November: a current medical student on what their interview was actually like, then practice questions.

We also bring in special guest speakers through the year: insights into the NHS, revision tips, study guides and much more.

Can't make a live stream? Every session is recorded and in your teen's account the next day, for the rest of the year.

The four bootcamps

A bootcamp is a short burst of live sessions, one each night for 3 or 4 nights, in the weeks before something that counts. Your teen's year group only joins the ones that apply to them.

February half termRevision bootcamp for Years 11 and 13. Four nights on the topics everyone loses marks on, chosen by vote the week before.

EasterExam bootcamp for Years 11 and 13. Four nights, each on a topic the students have asked for, with exam questions marked live.

JuneUCAT bootcamp for Year 12, with a UCAT tutor. Three weeks of sessions, then sit it in July or August.

SeptemberUCAS sprint for the new Year 13s. Statement finished and submitted before the mid-October deadline.

Inside the Exam Lab

Most students who lose marks in science understand the science. They lose them because they wrote the wrong three sentences about it. The Exam Lab fixes that, one question at a time.

Pick the board and the topicAQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC or Eduqas. Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Combined Science. GCSE, A level or T Level.

Answer an exam questionReal exam style, real mark allocation. Your teen types the answer the way they'd write it in the hall.

Marked in secondsAgainst the mark scheme for that board. Mark by mark: what they got, what they missed, and why.

See the patternA report for every test and a dashboard for the year: which topics are strong, which keep losing marks, what to practise next.

What the feedback looks like
3 of 6 marks. You correctly identified that the rate increases with temperature and linked it to particle energy (2 marks). You said collisions are "more likely" but the mark scheme needs more frequent collisions and more successful collisions as two separate points (2 marks missed). You didn't mention activation energy (1 mark missed). The final sentence repeats the first, so it earns nothing.

For parents

You get the reports too. So the conversation at home is "you're dropping marks on six-markers in chemistry" instead of "how's revision going".

Every week, not just before the exam

Your teen does a topic at school, then ten questions on it that week. By the time the school test comes, they've already sat it.

Inside the Academy

Over 75 hours of online medicine, in episodes of five to fifteen minutes, that your teen can use as work experience and as evidence that they've made an informed decision.

Career Insights20+ in-depth interviews with real health professionals: cardiac physiologist, cancer research nurse, physician associate, genomics, andrologist, paramedic and more. Each with a reflection guide to write it up for UCAS.

Medicines and ToxicologyHow paracetamol, aspirin, warfarin and a dozen other drugs work, what happens at a toxic dose, and how it's treated.

Ultrasound SecretsA real beating heart on screen, valves opening and closing, from three views. The anatomy of the hand, arm and shoulder.

Pathology and DiseaseWe dive deep into how diseases affect human physiology, from heart attacks to emphysema, fever, infection and much more, organ by organ, throughout the whole body.

How Medical Kit WorksFrom simple stethoscopes to blood pressure monitors, ECGs, X-rays and MRI scanners. We explore how they work and what a clinician sees in them.

Application prepHow to turn all of the above into a personal statement and interview answers that show understanding, not just attendance.

A snippet from an interview with a cardiac physiologist

Ultrasound Secrets: a deep dive into heart physiology

Medicines and Toxicology: how aspirin affects the body

It counts as work experience

Since 2020 medical schools have accepted virtual and non-clinical experience. What they assess is whether your teen understood what they saw and can explain what it changed in their thinking. Every interview in the Academy comes with the questions that get them there.

A certificate for every topic

Ten questions at the end of each topic unlock a certificate with your teen's name on it. Twenty certificates and twenty written reflections by Year 13 is a portfolio nobody else in the interview room has.

What your teen needs to get done this year, and how the Roadmap helps

Year	What they need to get done	How the Roadmap helps
Year 10	Build revision habits before it matters. Start talking to people in healthcare. Stay curious about medicine, because this is the year it either grows or fades.	Tuesday sessions keep the interest alive. The Thursday GCSE session and the Exam Lab build the habit on real questions. The Academy gives them their first career interviews to write up, with a template.
Year 11	Mocks in November. GCSEs in May and June. Choose A levels with chemistry. First proper work experience the summer after.	Thursday GCSE sessions all year. February and Easter bootcamps. Exam Lab practice by topic as they study it, so every school test has already been sat. A-level choices talked through in June.
Year 12	Survive the step up to A level. Collect work experience and write it up all year. Register for the UCAT in spring, prepare from Easter, sit it in summer. Draft the personal statement in August.	Thursday sessions switch between A-level science with a tutor and application work with Tom. Work experience write-up workshops. UCAT tutor from April and the June bootcamp. Statement drafting in July and August.
Year 13	UCAS in by mid-October. Interviews from November. Decide on offers. A-level revision from March, exams in May and June.	September UCAS sprint. Interview preparation from November: MMI practice, mock interviews with medical students, ethics questions. Then A-level science on Thursdays, the revision bootcamps and the Exam Lab daily through to the exams.

Who it's for

The Roadmap is for your family if

Your teen is in Year 10 to 13 and wants medicine, dentistry, vet science or another health career
They're motivated now and you want that to last four years, not four weeks
You'd rather see the whole route than find out in Year 13 what should have happened in Year 11
Work experience has been a dead end and you want a way through it from home

It isn't for you if

You want a tutor for one subject, two hours a week. That's a different thing and probably cheaper
You want everything on demand and nothing live. The recordings are there for the weeks you miss, but the value is in turning up through the year
Your teen isn't interested yet. The Roadmap works for teens who want this; it can't make them want it
You're looking for a guaranteed place at med school. Nobody can sell you that, and we won't

Photo of Tom with the ultrasound probe

Who's running it

Tom Warrender founded Medical Mavericks in 2009 and has spent 17 years in school halls with ECGs, ultrasound and a box of syringes, showing teenagers what the inside of a hospital looks like. Before that he spent over five years teaching physiology and pharmacology to nurses, paramedics and biomedical scientists at several universities. He's a physiologist and toxicologist by training, a lecturer by habit, and he has reviewed more medicine personal statements than he'd like to count.

He wanted to be a doctor, didn't get the grades, and found a career he loves instead. Which is partly why the Roadmap takes the fifth UCAS choice so seriously.

Tom runs every Tuesday session and the application sessions for Years 12 and 13. The Tuesday guests are the NHS professionals from the Academy interviews, live, taking questions.

The online tutor team

Our tutors are current medical students who have been exactly where your teen is now. They run the Thursday sessions and answer questions through the week.

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Tutor nameMedicine, Year 3, UniversityTeaches: GCSE and A-level Chemistry

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Tutor nameMedicine, Year 2, UniversityTeaches: GCSE and A-level Biology

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Tutor nameMedicine, Year 4, UniversityTeaches: UCAT and interviews

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Tutor nameMedicine, Year 1, UniversityTeaches: Physics and the UCAS sprint

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Tutor nameDentistry, Year 3, UniversityTeaches: Chemistry and interviews

Two ways to join and support your teen's ambition

Join the full Roadmap, or do it yourself with our online tools.

The Med School Roadmap

Two live streams every week, 45 weeks of the year
Four bootcamps at the points that count
Access to the tutor team of current medical students
Access to Tom
Every recording, for the whole year
The Exam Lab and the full Academy included
The Roadmap booklet, posted to you

Do it yourself

Choose the Exam Lab, the Academy, or both
All online, at your own pace
No live streams or bootcamps
No access to the tutor team
No access to Tom

Join the Med School Roadmap

£799 for the year

Everything above, for twelve months from the day you join
Includes VAT. Nothing else to pay
Cancel within 14 days for a full refund

£999 from 1 February 2027

Join for £799

£89 a month

Same year, paid monthly. Twelve payments on a twelve-month term
Cancel within 14 days for a full refund
Access pauses if a payment fails and restarts when it clears

Join for £89 a month

Both options run for 12 months. A private tutor is £30 to £50 an hour, so £799 is about twenty hours of tutoring. The Roadmap is around ninety hours of live sessions, 75 hours in the Academy, and unlimited marked practice, for the year.

Want to do it yourself?

Exam Lab

£19 a month

Marked practice questions, every science, every board.

Join the Exam Lab

The Academy

£19 a month

75+ hours of virtual work experience and inspiration.

Join the Academy

Both together

£29 a month

Or £297 for the year.

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Join the free webinar, every Wednesday at 7:45pm

Not sure yet? Spend an hour with Tom first.

The Roadmap to Med School is a free, live, online hour every Wednesday evening. Tom walks the whole route over the seven hurdles, from Year 10 to Year 13, and you leave knowing exactly what your teen should be doing this year and when. Parents and teens both welcome.

What you'll learn

The three rules of work experience, and why most families get it wrong
When to start the UCAT and why starting early backfires
How to pick four medical schools that are four different bets, not one
Why students who understand the science still lose marks, and how to stop it
How to keep a teenager interested through four years of exams

What you'll take away

The planner: the four years on one page
The medical school comparison chart
The work experience reflection template

Yours whether or not you join the Roadmap. First one is Wednesday 11 November.

Questions parents ask

What if we can't make the live sessions?

Every session is recorded and in your teen's account the next day, for the rest of the year. Most families make Tuesday and watch Thursday back. The bootcamps are the ones to be there for.

Our teen is in Year 10. Isn't this early?

Year 10 is when it's cheapest to get right. The habits, the curiosity and the first conversations with people in healthcare all start here, with no pressure on any of it yet. Year 10s share the Thursday GCSE session with Year 11s and get the full Tuesday programme.

What does the 12-month term mean?

You're joining for a year. Pay upfront or monthly, and either way the year runs from the day you join. You can cancel within 14 days for a full refund. After that, the monthly plan runs for its twelve payments.

Which exam boards does the Exam Lab cover?

AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and Eduqas across Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Combined Science at GCSE, A level and T Level Health and Science. Your teen picks their board and the questions and mark schemes match it.

Does online work experience count?

Yes. Since 2020 medical schools have said explicitly that virtual and non-clinical experience is acceptable. What they assess is how well your teen understood what they saw and can explain it, and the Roadmap teaches exactly that.

Is it only for medicine?

The route is the same for dentistry, veterinary science and most allied health degrees, with different entrance tests and deadlines. The Tuesday sessions and the Academy cover the whole of healthcare, not just doctors.

Can we join part-way through the year?

Yes. People join every month. The first week is a Quick Start that puts your teen on the right part of the route for their year group, and the booklet shows what has already happened and what comes next.