Cardiff Medical School Applicants 2013

I was wondering if any current students knew whether Cardiff:

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do student selected components?

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have dissection?

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and how the teaching is divided between lectures and small-group learning?

Thanks in advance :biggrin:

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hedgemonkey

The UKCAT scores are not sent to the Universities until 5-7th of November. If they have marked the PS and done the scoring by then, there is a slight chance that they will start sending IV invites out by 15th Nov. I would say that the invites will start only after 25th Nov. All the best guys.

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Original post by shaw95

I was wondering if any current students knew whether Cardiff:

•

do student selected components?

•

have dissection?

•

and how the teaching is divided between lectures and small-group learning?

Thanks in advance :biggrin:

At the moment, SSCs and full body dissection are huge parts of the preclinical course at Cardiff. Small-group learning doesn't happen very often, maybe one or two tutorials a month.

Please remember though the course at Cardiff is going to be very different from 2013 onwards, so look into that (Google: Cardiff C21 project).

(edited 11 years ago)

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Original post by Elwyn

At the moment, SSCs and full body dissection are huge parts of the preclinical course at Cardiff. Small-group learning doesn't happen very often, maybe one or two tutorials a month.

Please remember though the course at Cardiff is going to very different from 2013 onwards, so look into that (Google: Cardiff C21 project).

Thanks for the reply man! Repped!

Reply 307

hedgemonkey

Last year Cardiff offers were AAB. That seems low for a college that gets so much coverage on here as being a fab place to do a medical degree. Why is that.

Does an AAB offer also mean that that was the lowest grade that got offers?

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Original post by hedgemonkey

To be honest, isn't that a good thing because we never know what's going to happen in our exams. Say we mess up one exam big time, at least Cardiff are good enough to still let us in. In terms of the uni itself, I think it's great and when applying for jobs later in life, I doubt anyone will ask what you offer was?

Btw whats your source for this information?

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

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Original post by hedgemonkey

Original post by shaw95

That information is wrong. Cardiff had AAB offers until 2010 entry, the past two cycles have been AAA. This is normal as most other UK medical schools changed their requirements to AAA at about the same time.

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Original post by Elwyn

I did think it seemed low. I always thought keele have the lowest one of A*AB

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Applied for Cardiff, I really love the university and the new course there seems amazing!
6.5A* at GCSE (I know the .5 doesn't count, but I'm mentioning it because we had to do it in my school!!) and 3 A's.
AS - ABBB (B's were all 3 UMS from A's!! re-sitting modules in January)
Predicted AAA.
UKCAT - 625 average. Not the best I know, but Cardiff doesn't really look at it anyway as far as I know :smile:

Work experience - 1 week in GPs, 1 week in hospital, ongoing voluntary work at an EMI care home.
Do other things too like hockey, peer mentoring, school council, deputy head girl, sexual health mentor, a part of the Cardiff Widening Access scheme too.
I'm from what would be considered as an 'underprivileged' area too, so it has been a real struggle to get any sort of work experience - which is why mine is nothing compared to some people!

Really cannot wait to know if I have an interview or not! The suspense is unreal!

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Original post by Kaylax3

Your application is almost identical to mine :pierre:

What's this widening acces scheme then? That would have come in handy to my application, living in the Rhondda and all.

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Original post by Elwyn

Your application is almost identical to mine :pierre:

What's this widening acces scheme then? That would have come in handy to my application, living in the Rhondda and all.

I'm from the valleys (cue shock and sterotypical thoughts from that idiotic show that resembled the valleys as much as a hedgehog resembles a frog.) - about 10 minutes from merthyr :smile:

They send me emails about events in the university related to medicine. They informed me about the summer school, I watched a 3rd year communication workshop, open days, general information about the university etc. etc.
Nothing extraordinary in all honesty, but it did make university seem more accessable, I would have found these events too late probably without them keeping me informed.
Sorry about any spelling/grammar errors, my keyboard has a mind of its own! Trying to delete them as they happen, but I've probably missed a few!

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Original post by Kaylax3

I'm from the valleys (cue shock and sterotypical thoughts from that idiotic show that resembled the valleys as much as a hedgehog resembles a frog.) - about 10 minutes from merthyr :smile:

That sounds like a big help. Wish they had that when I applied. Your application seems to very strong so I'd be surprised if you didn't get an interview. I'm in second year at Cardiff so let me know if you got any questions and I'll do my best to help, good luck :smile:

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Original post by Elwyn

Thank you so much! I really hope I get an interview because I'm fairly confident that my enthusiasm will really shine through. I'm so determined to do this, and one way or another I'll make sure that I will - even if I have to do a medical sciences degree then do medicine post grad. I know how hard it can be (or I can empathise anyway!) but that doesn't compare to how amazing it all is! I've not met one person yet who doesn't love medicine at Cardiff!
Hopefully I'll bump into you as a first year when your in your third year :smile:

best of luck with your studies, I'll pm you questions (that I'll probably have plenty of) if I get an interview! :smile:

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Original post by Elwyn

Also, they don't seem to advertise that scheme very well. I only became aware of it after a phone call with Careers Wales, and after that it seemed like a fuss for them to put me on it (as my school wasn't one that they visited). But I got on it eventually :smile:

I don't know what areas they visit, but I thought mine would be a priority as it is considerered to be so 'deprived'.

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