*MEGATHREAD* - Medicine-related EPQ Questions & Advice Thread

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So would you recommend Critical Thinking instead, or Further Maths AS?

Further Maths. Although neither if you already have 4.

Its mandatory to do a fifth, so why do you recommend FM instead of EPQ?

Think so, i think its so you can improve your application for uni's

Don't you think that Medical related EPQ's could be advantageous in interviews and personal statements?

So would you recommend Critical Thinking instead, or Further Maths AS?

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.

Better spent on a ward/nursing home/any work experience IMO.

Better spent on a ward/nursing home/any work experience IMO.

It's 6K words

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?

Any advice on this topic would be great, thanks!

We do two 6k technical reports a week at uni ^^

They love it, especially when the topic is relevant or interesting.

Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific

why can't you read journals?

Do schools have access to journal subscriptions?? my school diddn't.

Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific

Question - where do you get the material from if you cant read journals - new scientist/papers?? That's not really scientific