[dan1993]

(Original post by aidanwryan01)
what kinda of titles exist? and if you create your own are you the only member of the class? I'm kinda picturing it like another module with a smaller class size? would that be correct?

These were the options available for our last ssc. They will probably be the same titles you will get but one or two may be altered and new ones may be added

Observation of Physiotherapy Practice
Human Structure by Dissection: Limbs
Neural and Pharmacological Control of Body Function
Cystic Fibrosis: An insight into chronic illness
A Pain in the Neck: Mouth, jaws, face and neck for beginners
An Introduction to the Biology of Cancer
Head and Neck Surgery
Introduction to the History of Medicine
Introduction to ENT Surgery
Evidence Based Medicine
Seasonality in Suicides involving Drugs
Pathology Diseases in action Prof.J.E.Martin
Brain: Structure & functions
Multiple Sclerosis/ Neuroimmunology
Physiotherapy - acute care and rehabilitation
Patient Pathway: Out of hours
Forensic Medical Investigation
Personal Development Skills: goal setting and stress management
Accelerated Learning
Life in the Shadows: tackling tuberculosis in Hackney
Neurocritical Care
Auditing Chronic Disease Management
Anaesthesia , Airway Skills & Perioperative Management

[digitalis]

Preclinical SSCs can be dividied into three categories:

1.) Doss (Accelerated Learning)
2.) Clinical (Anaesthesia, Clinical Skills, Perioperative)
3.) Dull (Intro to the Biology of Cancer)

[RollerBall]

(Original post by digitalis)
Preclinical SSCs can be dividied into three categories:

1.) Doss (Accelerated Learning)
2.) Clinical (Anaesthesia, Clinical Skills, Perioperative)
3.) Dull (Intro to the Biology of Cancer)

You missed out fustrating (pharamacology of the ANS, the physiology of pain).
Nothing ****ing worse than going in for four hours of mind bending lectures when your mate is going in for 10 minutes each day to sleep in a room.

[Medicine Man]

Accelerated Learning it THE best SSC, especially if you get it just before end of year exams. Turn up, get "put to sleep" twice a day, "wake up", revise, get an A for turning up to essentiallly revise for your end if year exams, and do better in your End of Years than you probably would have without the SSC. Bi-winning.

[aidanwryan01]

HAHA sounds amazing!!! what else is on offer? are things like advance surgical skills or things like that? and if you were to make your own how do u go about doing that?

[digitalis]

(Original post by aidanwryan01)
HAHA sounds amazing!!! what else is on offer? are things like advance surgical skills or things like that? and if you were to make your own how do u go about doing that?

You're hardly going to be doing 'advanced' surgical skills as a first year, are you...let's be realistic.

You can organise your own, yes...bit easier for your fifth year SSCs. I self organised abroad.

[aidanwryan01]

ya i get that haha

thanks tho!

(Original post by digitalis)
You're hardly going to be doing 'advanced' surgical skills as a first year, are you...let's be realistic.

You can organise your own, yes...bit easier for your fifth year SSCs. I self organised abroad.

[rohitbd]

This thread has gone really quite. I want to ask current Barts students what computing set up is best for a barts student. My laptop is starting to die, and I am in between buying a new laptop, or a new desktop/imac. I would prefer the desktop/imac as I prefer working on a big screen and it would be better for me to watch movies and do the occasional gaming, I also have a iPad which I'll take with to uni for any portable needs, I'm just wondering is it necessary for students to have a laptop, if a lot of work is done on the go, and the iPad will not be able to sufficient enough. Thanks

[Legit]

(Original post by rohitbd)
This thread has gone really quite. I want to ask current Barts students what computing set up is best for a barts student. My laptop is starting to die, and I am in between buying a new laptop, or a new desktop/imac. I would prefer the desktop/imac as I prefer working on a big screen and it would be better for me to watch movies and do the occasional gaming, I also have a iPad which I'll take with to uni for any portable needs, I'm just wondering is it necessary for students to have a laptop, if a lot of work is done on the go, and the iPad will not be able to sufficient enough. Thanks

I don't think its a MUST to have a laptop? I mean I've tried taking it to lecturers but i think its awful, pen and paper works a lot better.

If you can revise in halls, then you don't need a laptop. But if your like me, I always took my laptop to library/Garrod building to revise. But you can use PCs in the library but I prefer having all my files etc.

So yeah, you can get a desktop/iMac, i know a few people in my year who use iMac

[digitalis]

(Original post by rohitbd)
This thread has gone really quite. I want to ask current Barts students what computing set up is best for a barts student. My laptop is starting to die, and I am in between buying a new laptop, or a new desktop/imac. I would prefer the desktop/imac as I prefer working on a big screen and it would be better for me to watch movies and do the occasional gaming, I also have a iPad which I'll take with to uni for any portable needs, I'm just wondering is it necessary for students to have a laptop, if a lot of work is done on the go, and the iPad will not be able to sufficient enough. Thanks

Always does. TSR always gets used and abused every year, barely anyone stays around to give advice.

Get a desktop. Barely any work is done 'on the go' and there are plenty of computers if you ever need one. Maybe 2 people out of a lecture theatre of 300 will be doing notes on a laptop.

[RollerBall]

(Original post by rohitbd)
This thread has gone really quite. I want to ask current Barts students what computing set up is best for a barts student. My laptop is starting to die, and I am in between buying a new laptop, or a new desktop/imac. I would prefer the desktop/imac as I prefer working on a big screen and it would be better for me to watch movies and do the occasional gaming, I also have a iPad which I'll take with to uni for any portable needs, I'm just wondering is it necessary for students to have a laptop, if a lot of work is done on the go, and the iPad will not be able to sufficient enough. Thanks

Get a desktop, if you decide you want to do some more work outside of your room get a netbook further down the line (like for CHristmas or something).

I personally run a custom desktop + netbook combo and it works great.

[aidanwryan01]

roll on sept.... just want to start now!!!

[Knugs]

(Original post by rohitbd)
This thread has gone really quite. I want to ask current Barts students what computing set up is best for a barts student. My laptop is starting to die, and I am in between buying a new laptop, or a new desktop/imac. I would prefer the desktop/imac as I prefer working on a big screen and it would be better for me to watch movies and do the occasional gaming, I also have a iPad which I'll take with to uni for any portable needs, I'm just wondering is it necessary for students to have a laptop, if a lot of work is done on the go, and the iPad will not be able to sufficient enough. Thanks

you will probably never take a laptop to university except you do some group ssc work in which case someone else would do that anyway. However, if you are the type who likes to learn on a laptop in the library (a lot of people do that) then it can be quite useful. All university documents are online. the big advantage of a laptop is that you can take it home or to a friend and even in your future flat you can transport it between rooms. think how much easier it would be to connect it to your tv and watch a movie in your living room(if you have one!)

the ipad can be extremely useful if you know and like to use it. there are a lot of university apps which are amazing and even a couple of good medical apps. ipad is much better for library use as you can also open almost all university documents on it.

a desktop would be much better in halls. but once you are in a flat it will be **** (imo).

depending on what you mean with "starting to die" as long as word document works i would keep the money with you for emergency. Otherwise get a nice light laptop. obviously you wont be able to play the new cod but then this is med school and you will want to spend your time socialising instead of hardcore gaming. dont get a desktop.

[RollerBall]

(Original post by Knugs)
you will probably never take a laptop to university except you do some group ssc work in which case someone else would do that anyway. However, if you are the type who likes to learn on a laptop in the library (a lot of people do that) then it can be quite useful. All university documents are online. the big advantage of a laptop is that you can take it home or to a friend and even in your future flat you can transport it between rooms. think how much easier it would be to connect it to your tv and watch a movie in your living room(if you have one!)

the ipad can be extremely useful if you know and like to use it. there are a lot of university apps which are amazing and even a couple of good medical apps. ipad is much better for library use as you can also open almost all university documents on it.

a desktop would be much better in halls. but once you are in a flat it will be **** (imo).

depending on what you mean with "starting to die" as long as word document works i would keep the money with you for emergency. Otherwise get a nice light laptop. obviously you wont be able to play the new cod but then this is med school and you will want to spend your time socialising instead of hardcore gaming. dont get a desktop.

What makes you say that? Have you even lived outside of halls yet?

[digitalis]

(Original post by Knugs)
depending on what you mean with "starting to die" as long as word document works i would keep the money with you for emergency. Otherwise get a nice light laptop. obviously you wont be able to play the new cod but then this is med school and you will want to spend your time socialising instead of hardcore gaming. dont get a desktop.

You're not socialising every spare moment of the day. That **** costs money and valuable time. Sometimes you just want to kick back and shoot some terrorists, simples.

[Knugs]

(Original post by RollerBall)
What makes you say that? Have you even lived outside of halls yet?

Yes I have. Considering most of us cant effort big desks in big rooms, why would you ever want to have a big chunk of pc, screen, cables, speakers and probably loud noise next to your bed. You are forced to sit in the same spot. Yes, a desktop is cheaper and more powerful but is it worth for a little bit of gaming? With a laptop you can easily connect HDMI to your tv to watch and game on a big screen or skype whilst you are on the sofa or bed. in the kitchen on the toilet i dont care you have the freedom to do everythine where u like. And if you go home or uni, you just simply take it with you.

imo shooting terrorists in medium quality instead of high quality settings makes almost no difference. if you were studying computer science or some sort of design course then im for a powerful desktop. but might as well use that money and time to do something exciting at university

[digitalis]

(Original post by Knugs)
imo shooting terrorists in medium quality instead of high quality settings makes almost no difference. if you were studying computer science or some sort of design course then im for a powerful desktop. but might as well use that money and time to do something exciting at university

Well, that's your opinion. I'd rather drop the same amount of money that a laptop costs for an outstanding desktop. Wireless keyboard, wireless mouse, 21" HD tv as your monitor, small secondary LCD, tower under the desk, 5.1 surround sound...perfect.

Watched movies in HD, streamed the sports, played games, wrote my nice 10,000 word dissertation off that (trust me, far better than tapping it out on a laptop), an entire two week long 8 hour a day video lecture course...far better than doing it on a laptop.



Written on a laptop, on my lap, in bed. Have got through two laptops and a desktop through medical school, so I can comment on both sides fairly.

[Kirya]

Is anyone else feeling pretty bummed that they're prob not gonna get accomodation?
It's really put a downer on the whole thing for me, uni (first year at least) is not gonna be what I planned or anticipated at all.
Still crossing my fingers that, by some miracle, I will be lucky and end up with accomodation.

[dan1993]

(Original post by Kirya)
Is anyone else feeling pretty bummed that they're prob not gonna get accomodation?
It's really put a downer on the whole thing for me, uni (first year at least) is not gonna be what I planned or anticipated at all.
Still crossing my fingers that, by some miracle, I will be lucky and end up with accomodation.

Where do you live?

[Mish Bish]

(Original post by Kirya)
Is anyone else feeling pretty bummed that they're prob not gonna get accomodation?
It's really put a downer on the whole thing for me, uni (first year at least) is not gonna be what I planned or anticipated at all.
Still crossing my fingers that, by some miracle, I will be lucky and end up with accomodation.

I feel the same - it will take over an hour to get there but as I am still within M25 on the waiting list!

I know there is a facebook page - anyone got details? Perhaps we can all share a private house close by?