Most Overrated Medical School 2013

Manchester.
It's a silly place to study. Pfft!

Or maybe I just dislike it because I'm still bitter about being rejected from there last month

It's definitely not overrated, most people are pretty negative about it.

Some people work harder, others not so much.
Lets face it, TSR users at oxbridge will tend to be on the geekier end of the spectrum so more likely to be putting in a few extra hours.
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I don't rightly care what a radiologist told you. Of all the specialists to judge on empathy and communication skills I think radiologists are sitting aside histopathologists.
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Oxbridge, You get worked like a dog for six years and at the end of the day you get the same medicine degree that holds the same career prospects unlike any other degree. At oxbridge im hearing horror stories of having to work 6/7 hours a night on top of your university teaching to stay on top of the work.

Seriously, who wants a life like this just for "prestige" which is irrelevent in a medicine career?

Along with this they have no clinal contact for the first three years leading to the production a socially and clinically awkward students who lack empathy and communication skills. This was told to me my a radiologist who graduated from cambridge.

And I am not a troll, I am a applicant to this years cycle. And you have no clue! what world do you live in where you think oxbridge medics only work an extra 10 hour a week ontop of 32 hours + teaching. There [sic] working 6/7 hours plus.

supported by any evidence where as mine can.

How about talking about the most underrated medical schools, I think Manchester gets a lot of bad press but it's a great uni and city to be at and did you see how good a doctor Lucy was on Junior doctors. :P Obviously it doesn't matter where you in terms of getting an FY1 placement but to each individual some medical schools will be better than others, if you want to be a surgeon for example you're better off going to somewhere like KCL that put a lot of emphasis on anatomy/ dissection over Lancaster/ Liverpool that doesn't do and wet dissection. But on the other hand the PBL unis put a bigger emphasis on the doctor patient relationship so you'l probably end up feeling more comfortable when you do become a doctor. Basically it only matters to you where you go.

Well those stories about insane work hours are not true. You might have to put in 10-11h a day for 4 days a week at its worst, but you kind of get some of it back in a way since there's so little overhead - food is cooked for you, rooms are cleaned by scouts and everything is at most a 5 minute walk away.

Anyway, I think you'll find that in general demand for good education far outstrips supply and it would be unwise to turn down an opportunity just because it's occasionally hard work. Based on these numbers (http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20010303) it's quite easy to end up in a dead end medical job - you want to make sure you have every possible advantage.

Surely you are not serious? You are an expert on this subject capable of dismissing rigorous evidence and telling me what my own course is like because... you read a couple of posts on TSR? Where are you even getting this 32 hours teaching figure from? Did you make it up by any chance?



How about the evidence i provided in the post you quoted? Didn't bother to read it i take it - can't say i'm surprised. I'd love to see your evidence. LOVE to. Please post it.

Whats your point though? So a oxbridge education is advantagous compared to other medical degrees for a career in medicine?I think not.

Im getting the 32 hours from the fact im geussing you do 9-5 hours at university + an afternoon off which is what most med schools do.

And its a fact, i didnt here this in TSR, I also have spoken to an oxbridge medic. At oxbridge

your [sic] having to do 3/4 essays a week

on topics which take in excess of 5/6 hours to do each.

Furthur too [sic] that you have to revise your content.

This clearly points to having to do 5/6 extra work a night confirmed by numerous sources.

At other medicals schools you do not have near this workload.

You acknowledge this, and yet spend a third post telling me what the course, a course that i have spent the last 5 years studying, is like

I'm not defensive. I'm just correcting your blatantly incorrect statements before some poor applicant reads your misinformation and is put off.



So the figure was pulled out of your arse as i predicted. I think very few med schools are as strict as that. Please can you research your topics before just spouting bull**** all over the internet.

At Oxford, its closer to 20 hours for the first 2 years. Closer to 5-10 for third year. I assume we aren't talking about clinical here - that would be a lot more variable (though nowhere near the 75 hours you are proposing )



Oxbridge oxbridge oxbridge... they are not one uni. Very different course structures.



closer to 2/3, if that.



If you are being really rigorous, easily posible to do less. The topics rarely deviate from those covered in lectures.



You don't 'have to' do anything. Some people choose to.



BS. You have no citable source. Just one anecdote from a medic at the non-existent 'Oxbridge' university.

On average, the workload is 42 hours per week.



They are very similar. Again, as shown by the actual evidence.

Please don't post again, this is tedious.

I'm procrastinating from writing up my FHS project so I actually had a quick look at my 2nd year timetable.

My workload was about:
10h of lectures
4-5h of practicals
3-4h tutorials
--19h of teaching

usually 3 essays a week, I spent about 8h on each and I really skimmed the weblearn quizzes.
--adds up to 44h

I was in the 4th decile (barely) so I am assuming many are more efficient, cleverer or harder working.

Exams are only once a year (some unis have them twice) so that helps a lot.

Which would probably put you in about the 4th decile for time worked according to that survey, so that works out nicely!

Ah to be back to once yearly exams. That would be nice.

Tbf, I'd quite like to go back to exams which don't cost hundreds of pounds plus more £££ for revision courses, regardless of how often they come up!

I may have agreed with you if you had told me this 10 years ago but the situation now is different. Would you consider medical schools such as Cambridge and UCL of a same standard as St Andrews and Keele (no disrespect).

Whats your point though? So a oxbridge education is advantagous compared to other medical degrees for a career in medicine?I think not.



Yh I thought you were an oxbridge medic, no suprize your so defensive. Im getting the 32 hours from the fact im geussing you do 9-5 hours at university + an afternoon off which is what most med schools do. And its a fact, i didnt here this in TSR, I also have spoken to an oxbridge medic. At oxbridge your having to do 3/4 essays a week on topics which take in excess of 5/6 hours to do each. Furthur too that you have to revise your content. This clearly points to having to do 5/6 extra work a night confirmed by numerous sources. At other medicals schools you do not have near this workload.

Which is not a problem. But one of the reasons ppl go to oxbridge and take on this extra workload is the fake perception that it will help you more than say going to keele for a medical degree. Which is false. Hence its overrated.

So every oxbridge person on here is saying the hours you quote are not true, but are all wrong.

You don't acknowledge that oxford and cambridge are two different medical schools

You have such bad spelling as to make me cringe. [I seriously hope you spell-checked your personal statement]

AnonymousPenguin - in my 3rd year (BSc equivalent) I had one 1 hour lecture per day at 5pm. T'was a great doss.

in my 3rd year (BSc equivalent) I had one 1 hour lecture per day at 5pm. T'was a great doss.