[asgsoft]

Originally Posted by RamocitoMorales

I think it's a shame that such intelligent and academic people waste their potential on Medicine.

so instead you go and study....erm.....maths in order to become a erm.... Maths teacher??

I'm sorry, but you don't understand the passion some people have for medicine and ambition to become doctors.

[felt_monkey]

3rd November at 11am . I cancelled a freakin' dental appointment for it, it better go well!
I'm bricking it though

[RamocitoMorales]

Originally Posted by asgsoft

so instead you go and study....erm.....maths in order to become a erm.... Maths teacher??

I'm sorry, but you don't understand the passion some people have for medicine and ambition to become doctors.

I will have an almost infinite array of options with a degree in mathematics. You on the other hand will be scrounging around filthy and dirty hospitals, maneuvering your hands around patients intestines.

Your choice in Medicine has basically fixed your destiny and your life. Your life will be the hospital. No amount of money can ever pay for that.

[i'm no superman]

Originally Posted by felt_monkey

3rd November at 11am . I cancelled a freakin' dental appointment for it, it better go well!
I'm bricking it though

Good luck!

I will probably be sleeping through a lecture on ethics at 11 so I don't think I'll get to see you.

[felt_monkey]

Originally Posted by i'm no superman

Good luck!

I will probably be sleeping through a lecture on ethics at 11 so I don't think I'll get to see you.

Thanks

[conditional]

i guess if you don't get it, you won't get it when it comes to choosing a path in medicine...

i applied for sgul, i've heard nothing back, i'd like a bit more time before an interview to get some reading and stuff to talk about just in case.

[conditional]

and i'm completely ******** it about the interviews

[Phalanges]

Originally Posted by RamocitoMorales

I will have an almost infinite array of options with a degree in mathematics. You on the other hand will be scrounging around filthy and dirty hospitals, maneuvering your hands around patients intestines.

Your choice in Medicine has basically fixed your destiny and your life. Your life will be the hospital. No amount of money can ever pay for that.

Personally, I disagree. I believe that a medical degree offers just as many options as a maths degree, if not more.

For starters, there's a lot of overlap in the types of jobs we could go for, such as investment banking, where having a degree in medicine wouldn't count against us at all.

Then there's all the jobs that are only available to medics, all the many diverse specialities on offer (I'd be interested in how you think something like General Practice, Neurology or Psychiatry involve scrounging around with your hands inside people's intestines). There's also various types of research open to us, medical journalism, law etc. etc.

In fact, the only job I think that would be only available to a maths graduate would be being a Maths teacher/lecturer. Possibly some type of statistical research or analysis (although an intercalated degree in something like Medical Statistics or Epidemiology would probably open that option up as well).

[narutoamv]

Okay, so I'm a little confused. In the pack I got from SGUL today it asked for reference from work experience and voluntary work relevant to medicine, does that mean only volunteering in hospitals or old people homes or all types of volunteering. I think i might just give them the work experience bit and if there is a problem I can give them the other referances. (Btw is it just me or does it seem that SGUS does not trust its applicants as much as the other unis? "NO ID -NO INTERVIEW.." etc)

[asgsoft]

Guys, good luck with it. Please do tell of how it goes!!!

and I can't believe you just said:

Originally Posted by RamocitoMorales

I will have an almost infinite array of options with a degree in mathematics. You on the other hand will be scrounging around filthy and dirty hospitals, maneuvering your hands around patients intestines.

Your choice in Medicine has basically fixed your destiny and your life. Your life will be the hospital. No amount of money can ever pay for that.

With medicine you can go and do whatever you want afterwards. i feel that Phalanges hit the nail on the head there. so thanks for doing that for me

[T kay]

Originally Posted by narutoamv

Okay, so I'm a little confused. In the pack I got from SGUL today it asked for reference from work experience and voluntary work relevant to medicine,

It's a letter to prove you did the work experience and voluntary work you said you did. It's suppose to have the date of your work, duration and a brief description of what you did.

Originally Posted by narutoamv

does that mean only volunteering in hospitals or old people homes or all types of volunteering. I think i might just give them the work experience bit and if there is a problem I can give them the other referances.

I've been told they want documentation proving all your hospital placements and voluntary work.

Originally Posted by narutoamv

(Btw is it just me or does it seem that SGUS does not trust its applicants as much as the other unis? "NO ID -NO INTERVIEW.." etc)

I think all unis should be like that.

[T kay]

Originally Posted by Phalanges

Personally, I disagree. I believe that a medical degree offers just as many options as a maths degree, if not more.

For starters, there's a lot of overlap in the types of jobs we could go for, such as investment banking, where having a degree in medicine wouldn't count against us at all.

Then there's all the jobs that are only available to medics, all the many diverse specialities on offer (I'd be interested in how you think something like General Practice, Neurology or Psychiatry involve scrounging around with your hands inside people's intestines). There's also various types of research open to us, medical journalism, law etc. etc.

In fact, the only job I think that would be only available to a maths graduate would be being a Maths teacher/lecturer. Possibly some type of statistical research or analysis (although an intercalated degree in something like Medical Statistics or Epidemiology would probably open that option up as well).

Good post

[T kay]

Originally Posted by asgsoft

I think the MMI is a great idea. I mean if you mess up one you can forget about it and move on.

What's being assesed in the interview is:


extract from: http://www.sgul.ac.uk/undergraduate/...-academic-year

Yeah I read that from their website. It doesn't really say how the interview system works though does it. How many are there? What's different about each one? What topics/areas come up? etc etc

[username1991]

hey for the people that have been called in for interview at st georges, did u get notified by mail or email????

[nushii]

Originally Posted by username1991

hey for the people that have been called in for interview at st georges, did u get notified by mail or email????

I got mine my email first and then due to postal strikes i only got my letter yesterday and my interview is on the 3rd, Scared

[felt_monkey]

Originally Posted by username1991

hey for the people that have been called in for interview at st georges, did u get notified by mail or email????

It was meant to have been by post, but because of the postal strikes they're sending out emails. For (what seems to be) the majority of applicants atm, the email is the first thing they receive.

[asgsoft]

ooh dont say that!!! what if I got an interview and it was in my spambox which I blindely delete

[nushii]

Originally Posted by asgsoft

ooh dont say that!!! what if I got an interview and it was in my spambox which I blindely delete

That would be a problem, check your deleted mail
Hope you didnt
but you would still get the letter early
Its only forms that you get really
and a small leaflet about the interview

[felt_monkey]

Originally Posted by asgsoft

ooh dont say that!!! what if I got an interview and it was in my spambox which I blindely delete

I really hope you've got a deleted emails box. I use Gmail and my email was sent to my spam box...

[username1991]

for the people that have got an interview when did u send ur ucas off???