CURRENT YEAR 13s-Hopeful Medics (Mk. II)!

No problem

Imperial do dissection, UCL do prosection afaik

I just really like where the school is located and the atmosphere there! I went to the medical confence thing in year 11 and spoke to UCL undergrads there and they really were selling their school and it seemed like a nice place nice architecture as well! And the fact that you can go to many different places for elective! Plus I don't like the fact that Imperial heavily bases on BMAT when selecting people for their interviews, UCL's admission system whereas looks at the overall picture...at least that's what I've been told but now I'm bending towards Imperial a lot... I think I have to visit Imperial to know what it's like and compare the place with UCL

Wow, great reasoning I need to do more research aha, can't attend the UCL open day unfortunately so gonna have a self guided tour sometime. If I have any questions can I ask you? aha, I think I'll need as much info as possible seeing as I can't attend the open day are you going to go to any UCL open days?

Erm yeh I've done 2 weeks in a GP surgery and a week in Orthopaedics.

2 frigging weeks?!! Wow lucky!! In GP surgery as well! I've called about 30 GP surgerys and they all said 'no due to confidentiality reasons' as usual... Can I ask how your got the placement? I've done A&E and Geriatrics...

2 frigging weeks?!! Wow lucky!! In GP surgery as well! I've called about 30 GP surgerys and they all said 'no due to confidentiality reasons' as usual... Can I ask how your got the placement? I've done A&E and Geriatrics...

Ah well it pays to have connections you see

Basically the manager of the surgery is a Sikh (I am too), so I just walked in and said "help a bro out" and she said ok

(btw I didn't know her from before or anything, but I just knew she'd let me in for the reason I mentioned above. So if you can use any tactics like that, then go for it. It'll make things a lot easier)

Hospital work exp took me aaaagggesss to get though, couldn't get any in my city so I had to travel ~18miles to a small town

The gp I went to were sooo lovely, they let me do a week when I had to do my school one, then let me do saturdays as long as I wanted as often as I wanted It was only admin work on saturdays, but during the week they let me do stuff Maybe when you ring the gp's say you're okay with admin? (if you are aha) I got asked if I'm a patient there or if any family are, and when I said no they were cool with having me how was A and E?

I've given up on that now since I've arranged myself (hopefully, fingers crossed) a 20-week ward work experience in a hospital nearby so we shall see hehe

i'm sorry, what now?

i'm sorry, what now?

I would really like to however they are not open yet are they? I mean the booking form... I heard the medicine open day is on the same day as Imperial's medicine open day so....what to do now hmmm I've applied for imperial open day but no response yet and yes of course you can ask me about anything

maybe she meant 2.

Nope, she meant twenty. I've got that too starting this Saturday. It's more a volunteering placement, although you could call it work experience.

At least I hope that's what she's on about D:

Need more motivation for revision. Any ideas? I know that if I don't revise enough then I'll fail, but I find it so hard to sit down for long periods of time and revise stuff that's boring (ie social psychology, and the less interesting sides of chemistry and biology)

Ah lucky! You see, GP surgeries seem to hate me! I even said I was cool with admin stuff and everything and all I got was rejection after rejection! I've given up on that now since I've arranged myself (hopefully, fingers crossed) a 20-week ward work experience in a hospital nearby so we shall see hehe anyway how are you then? I was in A&E in February half term and that was when i had the urinating drunkard and shadowing gynae observing full on vagina (was very interesting!!) this time it was geriatrics! Lots of fallen elderly patients who were majorly confused, bless them :') loved the elderly patients!

Oh no oh well that 20 week one sounds pretty amazing! When will you be starting that I'm good! Just starting to crack down on revision now, but like most people struggling to stay motivated oh wow that sounds really fun Haha! I did a bit in a gynae clinic in india, was a bit scarred after that tbh :L I hated general medicine! It just made me really sad the first thing that happened on my first day was telling the house officer that someone had passed away the night before and seeing those that don't really have family support and are obviously struggling..

On a happier note- what specialty's been your favourite out of those you've experienced then?

Hey just out of interest did anyone on here actually get into the UNIQ thing for medicine ?

I'm still waiting to see if i get into oncology

Natalie maybe ?

Who wants a cheer up joke?

Why was Doctor angry at his wife?

Because he had lost his patients.