Cassandra Baiano is a medical student in the first cohort of the innovative Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) MBChB at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. ScotGEM is “designed to develop doctors interested in a career as a generalist practitioner within NHS Scotland….(and) offers a unique and innovative four-year graduate entry medical programme…and focuses on rural medicine and healthcare improvement” In this podcast Cassandra describes the course and explains how the programme is different to traditional medical training.