How should I tailor my personal statement for Medicine at Oxbridge?

Unlike arguably any other Medical School in the UK, the first 3 years here at Oxbridge consist of a very rigorous course in basic science. To this end, these medical schools expect less focus on your experience in medical practice, in return for much more academic focus. Thus, your personal statement should clearly mark your keen academic interest in the biomedical sciences: ideally you would be able to reference some independent research work. They do recognise that it's difficult to obtain proper lab experience whilst still at school, so things like an EPQ on a biomedical topic always go down very well instead. What can really make you shine is linking some of this academic, scientific work with the clinical experience that you do have: perhaps you saw something in the Cancer hospital you volunteered at that made you go and subscribe to the British Journal of Oncology, which you now keenly read. Oxbridge do not aim to mass produce doctors that have generic clinical skills, but instead aim to produce highly academically literate scientists that will combine medical practice with research: these are typically professors of medicine, or academic clinicians.