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

Original post by Lily Academia

Note: A lovely girl from my school (which is a v. standard comp.) holds an Oxford offer - she had AAAB at AS.

I went to a Cambridge Admissions Talk and the admissions tutor said that if you get a B at AS level then it is highly highly unlikely you will get it as the competition is just soo fierce (obviously if you had 8As and then 1 B that would be different but if was one of your main 4 then its going to be hard). And this wasn't even talking about Medicine - which is even more competitive!

Original post by IAmMclovin

I only have 2 evenings free during a school week, and i have to cram all my work in then :'(

I have one evening during the week and one day at the weekend free - and might be starting another volunteering thing so I'll end up with either no free evening or no weekend :/

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Original post by Varsh05

I swear the workload just gets worse and worse?! -.-

i agree...geography is like learning another language for me..not because its unbelievably hard..because there are so many weird names to learn :s-smilie:

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Original post by Gcayte

Had my first day on the ward today, worked 7 til 530 so quite a day! Was really amazing, persuaded me to do medicine even more if possible! :tongue:

glad you enjoyed it :biggrin:

what type of things did you see? :redface:

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Original post by Orinincandenza

Hey weird coincidence i volunteer on a respiratory ward weekly, it's nice to be anywhere but is largely COPD and the treatment is just - stabilise, treat pneumonia or other slight complication, send home. So not a huge variety, nice people though.

Cool

Mines been quite exciting really, quite a few unusual cases :smile:

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Original post by halii_94

i agree...geography is like learning another language for me..not because its unbelievably hard..because there are so many weird names to learn :s-smilie:

I find geography to be the easiest AS I'm doing :P

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Original post by halii_94

glad you enjoyed it :biggrin:

what type of things did you see? :redface:

erm saw an enema, a huge bed sore, looked inside peoples ears with an ophthalmoscope, listened to patients chests, listened a lot to consultants, saw a patient with a BMI of 11 (was quite scary :redface:

), watched blood and catheters, helped prepare a man to go to the morgue, ate sweets and cakes, organised going on the ward rounds tomorrow and thursday which should be good and should be going on EAU some point in the week :smile:

Just had an overview of the ward really and got to know people :smile:

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Original post by Natalie21

I find geography to be the easiest AS I'm doing :P

Are you doing cold environments?

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Original post by Gcayte

Just had an overview of the ward really and got to know people :smile:

wow sounds amazing! i cant wait for summer now :biggrin:

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Original post by halii_94

wow sounds amazing! i cant wait for summer now :biggrin:

hope you have a good time! :smile:

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Original post by Gcayte

Just had an overview of the ward really and got to know people :smile:

Wow your day sounds great!!! Hope my day is as good tomorrow :biggrin:

Original post by halii_94

Are you doing cold environments?

No I'm not :P I'm doing coasts :wink:

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Original post by Natalie21

Wow your day sounds great!!! Hope my day is as good tomorrow :biggrin:

where ya going? :smile:

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sirip

hey guys!! i'm an aspiring medic too.

just wondering, how much work experience have you guys done??
and what extra curricular stuff are you doing?

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Original post by Gcayte

where ya going? :smile:

Trauma and Orthopaedics :biggrin:

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Original post by Natalie21

Wow your day sounds great!!! Hope my day is as good tomorrow :biggrin:

No I'm not :P I'm doing coasts :wink:

lucky you! i have like 30 landform casestudies to learn...each with their own dimensions! :frown:

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Original post by Natalie21

Trauma and Orthopaedics :biggrin:

Awesome!

Have a good time :biggrin:

You'll have to let us all know what you get up to there :smile:

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Original post by halii_94

lucky you! i have like 30 landform casestudies to learn...each with their own dimensions! :frown:

Hahaha I have quite a few coastal features tbh - but already did them all at GCSE :P

Original post by Gcayte

Awesome!

Have a good time :biggrin:

You'll have to let us all know what you get up to there :smile:

Thank you

I shall

So excited to be in an actual hospital - not just a GP surgery :biggrin:

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