Right for me??

You will have plenty of time to socialise and meddle with recreation if you have great time management skills.

I would go ahead with the course if I were you. If you really find it bad, you can always re-apply for a different programme. You'll just be losing a year, equivalent to taking a gap year.

Reply 2

elgarde

I've already got into medical school for 2006 entry however i can't help feeling an element of doubt.
My feelings in a nutshell:
I got 4 offers for medicine so i think that the uni's obviously think i could cope with the course.
I don't know whether i could manage working that hard for 5 years...
I really enjoy sport and socailizing etc and i don't know if i'll have the time to do that at uni.
I did some physio work experience and didn't like it but i look at the course and think that i would really enjoy it..
If i didn't do medicine would i be selling myself short and regret it in the future..?

Any suggestions? I guess i just need someone elses opinion to help me clarify my thoughts..
Cheers :confused:

Clearly, you'll do excellently.

It's very normal to have doubts about the course, I think it's fair to say that must of us do, even those who are already there and doing it. It's easy to see why it looks daunting, but once you're in there it'll seem different (right now, five years doesn't seem long enough, there's so much more partying to do).

Sports and social are a big thing at university; this is half the reason you go to. When you're there, do get involved. As a second year my best mate plays firsts netball, firsts hockey, mixed hockey, hockey for an external club, sits on the RAG committee and has been in the all the drama productions this year. I run the students association techical bits and pieces, I play mixed hockey and lacrosse, I sit on the RAG and ENTS committees, I do drama and occasionally work the bar. We're both really socially active and we're both doing well at school, it's a matter of time management. These people who are social and friendly and active are the people we want in medical school, these people are the lifeblood of schools and unions and they go on to make some of the best doctors.

Yes you would be selling yourself short, if medicine is what you want to do then go for it. Don't regret anything that you've done, only what you've not done.

Reply 3

Knogle

You will have plenty of time to socialise and meddle with recreation if you have great time management skills.

Which medical course did you do?

Clearly, you can have pretty **** time management skills and still do it - the time management comes into balancing lots of different activities.

Reply 4

elgarde

OP

thank very much for the advice...Renal what course do you do??

Reply 5

Renal

Which medical course did you do?

Clearly, you can have pretty **** time management skills and still do it - the time management comes into balancing lots of different activities.

None personally, although I have 4-5 friends at top Medical schools in the UK (Cambridge, Imperial, UCL), who have pretty much said the same thing.

Reply 6

Fluffy

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Renal studies drinking with a little bit of medicine ( :wink:

) at Barts and The London :smile:

Reply 7

Fluffy

Renal studies drinking with a little bit of medicine ( :wink:

) at Barts and The London :smile:

Thanks fluff...

None personally, although I have 4-5 friends at top Medical schools in the UK (Cambridge, Imperial, UCL), who have pretty much said the same thing.

Which I think exemplafies why you should leave it to us.

Reply 8

Renal

Thanks fluff...

Which I think exemplafies why you should leave it to us.

I don't know what you're getting at, but you reek of erragance to be perfectly honest.

Reply 9

I don't know what you're getting at

'Tis precisely my point.

It's not arrogance - I do know more about this than you.

Reply 10

Renal

'Tis precisely my point.

It's not arrogance - I do know more about this than you.

Give me a break. Just because you study medicine doesn't mean you're the authority when it comes to dispensing non-academic advice.

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But you are an authority on medic social life? :toofunny:

Let's be quite clear, I'm not an authority on medic social life, but doing it day in day out I would like to think that I have a fairly valid opinion. If you disagree, fair enough, you don't have to take my advice or even listen to my opinion if it doesn't suit you and your world view. If you think you have the knowledge of medical school based on having a few mates at the "top" medical schools *sigh*, to have an equally relevant opinion I respectfully disagree with you. The fact that you identify "top" medical schools shows your lack of understand and appreciation of the realities of medical education in this country. Even if there were such a concept as "top" medical schools what makes you think that that is relevant to this discussion, surely it would make more sense to divide it into London and Non-London schools?

Now, I'm sure you'd like to come back with some long winded response about why there are "top" medical schools and why they're the one's youve listed. Don't bother, it's nothing we haven't heard before, we disagree with you already. If you want to come back with something about how you have a perfectly valid opinion on medic social life based on your experiences, go ahead, I need a good laugh.

Reply 12

Renal

But you are an authority on medic social life? :toofunny:

Clearly not an authority - no one is. I just provided an informed opinion, just like you can. Leave it up to the OP to balance between the two or throw one of them out.

Cheers. :smile:

Reply 13

elgarde

OP

Why don't the both of you stop acting like little girls??
Both of you gave good and valuable advice.

Reply 14

elgarde

Why don't the both of you stop acting like little girls??
Both of you gave good and valuable advice.

Looking at his argument, it's flawed on so many levels that I won't really bother responding to. He clearly is stuck up. We'll leave it as that.

*shrug*

Knogle

Looking at his argument, it's flawed on so many levels that I won't really bother responding to. He clearly is stuck up. We'll leave it as that.

Well, I can't see too many flaws in what he's said, and I'm at one of your "top" medical schools :wink:

I have **** time management skills and am excellent at procrastinating. I still passed the last two years reasonably.

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