The "I'm doing an Extended Project related to medicine" thread
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?So would you recommend Critical Thinking instead, or Further Maths AS?(Original post by digitalis)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Further Maths. Although neither if you already have 4.(Original post by Mohil)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Its mandatory to do a fifth, so why do you recommend FM instead of EPQ?(Original post by digitalis)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Is that a school rule?(Original post by Mohil)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?That is quite literally the opposite of true.(Original post by Mohil)
Think so, i think its so you can improve your application for uni's
Medical schools (minus Barts) only look at 4 AS and 3 A levels, you'll spend less time on each subject and therefore this can only be a bad thing. -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I found the EPQ was advantageous for Dentistry, I spent a good 5 minutes of my Newcastle interview discussing it with the interviewers as it was related to Dentistry.(Original post by Mohil)
Don't you think that Medical related EPQ's could be advantageous in interviews and personal statements?
It showed skills that you don't get if you're doing Maths and sciences as well as showing you are interested in the subject you are applying for as you are using 90 hours of your time to carry out the project.
Critical Thinking = Biggest waste of life!! You could learn something from it, but most people in my year just sat and had a chat during the lessons as it's not included in your Uni offer - so no one cares how they do!(Original post by Mohil)
So would you recommend Critical Thinking instead, or Further Maths AS?
If you wanted something more academic then further maths - but that will be more work than critical thinking. -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Better spent on a ward/nursing home/any work experience IMO.(Original post by orange.bananna)
I found the EPQ was advantageous for Dentistry, I spent a good 5 minutes of my Newcastle interview discussing it with the interviewers as it was related to Dentistry.
It showed skills that you don't get if you're doing Maths and sciences as well as showing you are interested in the subject you are applying for as you are using 90 hours of your time to carry out the project.
Critical Thinking = Biggest waste of life!! You could learn something from it, but most people in my year just sat and had a chat during the lessons as it's not included in your Uni offer - so no one cares how they do!
If you wanted something more academic then further maths - but that will be more work than critical thinking. -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Tbh you do not need anywhere near 90 hours to complete it :P(Original post by Wangers)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I had done the work experience required plus extra and continued my long term volunteering while doing the project...(Original post by Wangers)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?We do two 6k technical reports a week at uni ^^(Original post by Patchey1000)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?They love it, especially when the topic is relevant or interesting.(Original post by Gekoladie)
Today at school we had a talk about the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), which is basically a research-based project on a topic of your choice to produce a dissertation.
I was wondering how useful it is to have this qualification if you're applying to study medicine at university.
The message my school seemed to give was that it was very arts and humanities based, with almost all the projects being on history, literature or law. The one exception was about veterinary medicine, which was done by a student applying to vet school. As the person who assesses the project has to understand the project (at least to some extent) in order to get any kind of reasonable mark, I got the impression that doing something scientific would be incredibly difficult because, given the word count guidelines (around 3K words for the research part, 1K for conclusion) it would be very difficult to explain more advanced concepts to an extent that a person with no scientific specialisation could understand.
How to universities view the EPQ for students applying to study medicine? Obviously, having the right grades and work experience is very important, but would having the EPQ give a student any advantage besides demonstrating that they are capable of independent work, since including a relevant concept would be difficult?
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I wasn't saying its a lot Just correcting OP(Original post by kaosu_souzousha)
We do two 6k technical reports a week at uni ^^ -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I found my EPQ really beneficial to my application. I've had two interviews so far for medicine, and at both interviews they seemed really interested in it. I think it shows a true interest in medicine as you do have to spend quite a bit of time doing it (nowhere near the 100 hours AQA suggests though).
In my opinion doing an EPQ would be of more benefit to you than doing Further Maths or Critical Thinking. -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific(Original post by kaosu_souzousha)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?why can't you read journals?(Original post by Wangers)
Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific -
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Do schools have access to journal subscriptions?? my school diddn't.(Original post by Natalie21)
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?Most do and most journals have free online archives(Original post by Wangers)
Do schools have access to journal subscriptions?? my school diddn't.
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I have a subscription to Nature and Nature medicine, and used them to help with the project. There are a lot of free archives on some websites though(Original post by Wangers)
Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific
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Re: How useful is the EPQ when applying to do medicine?I conducted surveys, contacted various companies and used books for my EPQ.(Original post by Wangers)
Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific
