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TSR Med Students' Society Part IV

Reply 5980

Kinkerz

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Original post by crazylemon

Are you on Bsc?

I have been missing it for much of the year. Looking forward to getting back to it in june!

Yeah, and for most of my year out I've preferred what I've been doing to medicine.

June? You guys start early.

Original post by Isometrix

Yep. But the only thing I won't miss are the 8.30am starts *shudder*

That is true. Going from, like, one uncomfortable alarm per week back to a full timetable will be a shock.

Reply 5981

iMed

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So fifth and sixth years at Imperial are getting iPad minis next year. Only 4 years to go until I get one!

Reply 5982

carcinoma

17

Original post by iMed

So fifth and sixth years at Imperial are getting iPad minis next year. Only 4 years to go until I get one!

Why? Just for the ****s and gigs?

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Reply 5983

Helenia

20

Original post by iMed

So fifth and sixth years at Imperial are getting iPad minis next year. Only 4 years to go until I get one!

WTF for? So they can all get stolen from the wards on placements?

Reply 5984

Becca-Sarah

OP

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Original post by crazylemon

For ~~learnding~~ playing Angry Birds in clinic

Anyone want a free sub? The sub system is changing and I have a ton of credits to get rid of before it happens.

Reply 5985

nexttime

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Was there ever a public explanation as to what happened over the SJT + job allocation faff btw?

Reply 5986

Kinkerz

15

Original post by carcinoma

Why? Just for the ****s and gigs?

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So they can put 'free iPad' in the prospectus and have all the applicants salivating :tongue:

a bit like 'early clinical experience'.

Reply 5987

AreebWithaHat

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Original post by Becca-Sarah

Anyone want a free sub? The sub system is changing and I have a ton of credits to get rid of before it happens.

I'll have some pretty please?

If it's still available :tongue:

Reply 5988

Helenia

20

Original post by crazylemon

For learnding

I'm only half joking - at one of my previous hospitals, they bought a bunch of iPads for the wards to use as a new system for recording obs, looking up bloods etc on the ward round and so on. They lasted less than a week before they all walked.

Reply 5989

clarusblue

14

Original post by nexttime

Was there ever a public explanation as to what happened over the SJT + job allocation faff btw?

I read the other day that they were blaming it on creases in the papers, and "crummy marks" made by the students on the optical mark sheets.

Medical schools ended up marking all of their students' papers manually.

Apparently it won't happen again, and if it does the BMA are pushing for a set procedure to be followed in terms of offering recompense to those who lose out financially from it.

Reply 5990

nexttime

22

Original post by Helenia

I'm only half joking - at one of my previous hospitals, they bought a bunch of iPads for the wards to use as a new system for recording obs, looking up bloods etc on the ward round and so on. They lasted less than a week before they all walked.

What, seriously? They all disappeared? That's pretty awful... They've had them on JR med wards for a while now and either they don't get stolen or they're continually replaced.

Giving them to med students seems pretty crazy though - someone was boasting they had theirs on fb just now and i couldn't believe it!

Reply 5991

Helenia

20

Original post by nexttime

What, seriously? They all disappeared? That's pretty awful... They've had them on JR med wards for a while now and either they don't get stolen or they're continually replaced.

Giving them to med students seems pretty crazy though - someone was boasting they had theirs on fb just now and i couldn't believe it!

Lol, Oxford =/= Croydon.

They replaced them with ones in hefty plastic cases, so they weren't obviously iPads, and reprogrammed them so they wouldn't work outside hospital grounds - those ones stuck around. From my experience as a med student and never having a locker or anywhere to securely leave things on placement, having a shiny toy doesn't seem very safe to me.

Reply 5992

hslakaal

17

Original post by nexttime

What, seriously? They all disappeared? That's pretty awful... They've had them on JR med wards for a while now and either they don't get stolen or they're continually replaced.

Giving them to med students seems pretty crazy though - someone was boasting they had theirs on fb just now and i couldn't believe it!

Think Guy's is trying to get tablets to all students. But think they said it's nowhere near ready enough for distribution - which means my year won't get it :frown:

Reply 5993

nexttime

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Original post by clarusblue

I read the other day that they were blaming it on creases in the papers, and "crummy marks" made by the students on the optical mark sheets.

Medical schools ended up marking all of their students' papers manually.

Apparently it won't happen again, and if it does the BMA are pushing for a set procedure to be followed in terms of offering recompense to those who lose out financially from it.

I was asking because we were given a talk on applications and SJTs etc yesterday and the lecturer explained what had happened.

It was only picked up because it was reported to Southampton that one of their students was one of only a handful nationally to have done so badly on the SJT they were failing them completely. They wouldn't be (aren't being...) offering them an FY1 placement at all. Southampton contacted them back saying that this was one of their best students and there must be some mistake. On manual check, it was found to be a creased paper as you say, and other errors with machine sensitivity on other papers.

Its good that it got picked up i guess! I do find it amusing that some people give answers on the SJT so bad that they're considered too dangerous to be F1s. :eek:

Reply 5994

Mushi_master

17

Original post by hslakaal

Think Guy's is trying to get tablets to all students. But think they said it's nowhere near ready enough for distribution - which means my year won't get it :frown:

Are they? They probably haven't told us as we'll be long gone and bitter by the time it happens.

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Reply 5995

hslakaal

17

Original post by Mushi_master

Are they? They probably haven't told us as we'll be long gone and bitter by the time it happens.

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Despo told us at the beginnig of the year that they want to, but student rep just heard that it's gonna take a while, and that even us (1st yr) won't get it... :confused:

To be honest, I don't see it being useful unless King's goes on a spending spree and gets some kind of textbook deal on Inkling or something.

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Reply 5996

Mushi_master

17

Original post by hslakaal

Despo told us at the beginnig of the year that they want to, but student rep just heard that it's gonna take a while, and that even us (1st yr) won't get it... :confused:

To be honest, I don't see it being useful unless King's goes on a spending spree and gets some kind of textbook deal on Inkling or something.

Perhaps a case of 'oh crap, gimpers are doing this we'd better do it too'. Can't see the point, but I'd love a free iPad, I'd never pay for one that's for sure!

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Reply 5997

hslakaal

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Original post by Mushi_master

Perhaps a case of 'oh crap, gimpers are doing this we'd better do it too'. Can't see the point, but I'd love a free iPad, I'd never pay for one that's for sure!

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