Graduate entry into Medicine is incredibly difficult to get into. A lot of people with Biochemistry do head that way but it's likely you'd need to broaden up your CV a little. On the whole, I found the grads very very good. Their great learners and extremely determined so I'm sure academically you'll be fine.
What I would say it that seriously think long and hard about your situation. You'll be 34 when entering, so 38/39 when you graduate. Expect to be working for a minimum of 5 years as a junior doctor and all that entails. You
WILL be the dogsbody of the wards, your hours will be unsociable and your pay will be pretty poor too for that time. If you can live being in your 40s and working as a junior doctor then great but I know I couldn't do it at that age.
Certainly don't do it for the money. Long gone are the days of GP's earning 150K etc. Expect a starting salary of around £25K typically for a FY1 (with two banded jobs and one unbanded normally) but the pay will go up to around £30-35K in the following years. The pay jump between FY1 and FY2 is typically around £4K then you also will be doing more oncalls etc.
Expect to be working 1 in 3 or 4 weekends (excluding mid-week night shifts) for your average banded job and some rotations like Emergency Medicine 1 in 2. (During A&E I was working around an 80 hour week on night shifts exluding 1.5hrs travelling each day for example). You will be sacrificing finances and family life for the best part of 10 years!
It's not all doom and gloom though, it is thouroughly rewarding and job satisfaction is right up there!
I was watching a show on BBC about junior doctors and they said they earned around 21-22k in their first year. But I don't think that includes overtime etc if they get it.
You'd be lucky. No such thing as overtime. There's banded jobs and unbanded. So banded is where your hours included in the rota and you are payed as such. As for overtime...no chance. At one point I was averaging 15 hours overtime in a typical 5 day week...you'll never see a penny!
