Medic friends

You don't need to go to uni with a strategy! Be open to making friends with anyone, whether on your course or not. In later years you will naturally tend to spend more time with medics as other courses are shorter so your other friends may well have left, but early on I think it's good to have a mixture of friends. Medics at some unis have a reputation for being cliquey and arrogant, which probably isn't true, but if you make friends with non-medics you can help challenge that stereotype.

My closest friends are a mixture of medics and non-medics, though admittedly they are two mostly distinct groups. Both are useful to have around.

Its pretty unavoidable in clinical years, there will be nobody else left!

just found this on an advice for medical students

Make friends. You will need them. You will moan with them, exchange advice with them, work with them. Some of them may be future colleagues. All of them will be the person who understands you the most for the next few years. Do not be that selfish person who only thinks about themselves, and does things purely for their own gain (and you will, alas, meet such people). Watch somebody’s back, because your own needs to be watched as well. You are not infallible, and you do not need to do this alone.

i was once told that you do not need to forge friendships with medics as they will happen naturally?
i don't want to end up isolated from my halls mates because i tried so hard to be friends with medics but i dont want to be out the medic click eiher? Any advice in general don't just want to end up with only knowing people from my flat would like to know people from other flats as well the more the merrier