Hi student room
I'm in the fortunate but difficult position of having offers from these med schools, but choosing between them is incredibly difficult - in a way I'm glad I got rejected from my 4th choice to make things easier!
Anyway if anyone, anyone at all could give me some constructive advice I'll love you forever!
here are my thoughts on each uni:
Birmingham - big city (good thing)
strong focus on scientific foundation at the start with mix of lectures/small groups
gp visits from year 1 (clinical context)
quite near to home
great hospitals
heard anatomy teaching isn't that great but only hearsay
Leeds - quite a big city
very very organised med school
early clinical contact
slightly less science focus than bham
dissection
associated hospitals not as famous as Bhai but still good
Newcastle - amazing city, great student life
case based approach in pre clinical year, great for clinical context but will I understand everything with a lower focus on basic science
far from home
clinical placements are mostly quite far from campus, wide variety of patients will be seen however
once again, apparently incredible student life but that's just one factor
Any help at all would be much appreciated, sorry for the long post!!