Peninsula Medical School Applicants thread 2012 entry.

The wiki description of the interview process is very accurate as has been repeated on TSR. I also am a current med student here.These are some of the benefits in my opinion. You have a medical scenario and learning is done in a way that clinicians would actually approach a patient. It allows you to discuss/ brainstorm various scenarios/ differential diagnoses at length in a safe environment with supervision/direction from a facilitator. This develops self confidence, teamwork, the ability to listen and value other peoples judgements. You can see how these things are important. The preparation for these sessions is up to you and this independent study suits me. Most people don't want to be found wanting in the session as it's pretty obvious if you haven't prepared- you get in the habit.You continually build on acquired knowledge and learn lots of problem solving skills. Apparently this way of learning means that retention of the knowledge acquired is much better too.Hope this helps...sure I've left lots out!

@Carcinoma (or any other PMS student - )
Who is the Dean of Medicine at PMS and what degrees do most of the lectures have?
What is the Deans main interest in research?
I'd also like to know about the PBL topic please!
Thank you any help is greatly appreciated!

I've spoken to somebody at Peninsula to see how the questionnaire is used and they said that it wasn't really used for anything other than research purposes..

Thanks, I'll bare this in mind.
My interview is tomorrow and I'm starting to panic :|

Mines on tuesday and i'm getting pretty nervous haha! Good luck, i'm sure it'll go well

Thanks, I'll bare this in mind.
My interview is tomorrow and I'm starting to panic :|

Professor Steve Thornton - obs & gynae - last at warwick. Why does this matter? What else do you need to know about PBL?

FYI its PCMD - Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry

Sorry, but why is this relevant? Am I missing something...?

ok thanks for that! what are the main advantages of PBL? I have some ideas, but I'm pretty sure that your ones would be much more valid since you're studying using PBL lol

and also, how was your interview process when getting into PMS? does the description in this page http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/What_you_should_expect_at_a_medical_school_interview match yours?

I was fairly pleased with mine, hard to tell though isn't it. Made 'em laugh a few times so hope that's a good thing!

Yeah this is very accurate.

If you prepare for that and just read up on a couple of ethical scenarios to get the theme of what you have to think about you're as prepared as you need to be.

I wouldn't learn set answers at all if I were you, I got the feeling that they really appreciate the natural approach.

I can't seem to find the description of the interview on wiki - could someone please link me it?
Thank you!
My interview's on Wednesday..so nervous ahh!