Fpas 2014/15

Original post by jco91

At least you'll have that wonderful free from exams feeling on your birthday!

I am looking forward to this SOOOOOO much :biggrin:

Reply 83

i'm no superman

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Original post by toffeecrisp_

Our finals are not until April!

Same! I can't imagine doing finals in Jan/Feb!! :shh:

Reply 84

seaholme

Anybody know anything about this mysterious pharmacy exam? Is it still a pilot for us? The current F1s seemed to think theirs was the pilot, but I'll be very happy if ours is still being piloted as well!

January is WAY too early to be finishing final year! That's like final 1/4 of a year. Our exams are in March and even that seems really early to me. Although considering for the last two years I've finished in August, pretty much anything north of July seems early to me...

Reply 85

AK1122

Original post by seaholme

Anybody know anything about this mysterious pharmacy exam? Is it still a pilot for us? The current F1s seemed to think theirs was the pilot, but I'll be very happy if ours is still being piloted as well!

January is WAY too early to be finishing final year! That's like final 1/4 of a year. Our exams are in March and even that seems really early to me. Although considering for the last two years I've finished in August, pretty much anything north of July seems early to me...

We had a bit of info on it today, they told us to check out the website:
http://www.prescribe.ac.uk/psa/?page_id=2

Reply 86

divinelord

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Can someone please explain to me exactly what the "attraction" is about having a job in London? I don't have any family there and I can only image how expensive it'll be compared to anywhere else.

Why do people (who are not from London) want to apply to London?

Reply 87

hoonosewot

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Original post by seaholme

Anybody know anything about this mysterious pharmacy exam? Is it still a pilot for us? The current F1s seemed to think theirs was the pilot, but I'll be very happy if ours is still being piloted as well!

January is WAY too early to be finishing final year! That's like final 1/4 of a year. Our exams are in March and even that seems really early to me. Although considering for the last two years I've finished in August, pretty much anything north of July seems early to me...

Don't worry about it, it's very straight forward. Half a days revision will ace it just fine. I only heard of one person failing it, and he was badly hungover that day.

Reply 88

xXxBaby-BooxXx

I thought I had my preferences decided, but now am unsure again :/

Why is this so hard!?

Reply 89

seaholme

Original post by xXxBaby-BooxXx

I thought I had my preferences decided, but now am unsure again :/

Why is this so hard!?

Me too

I had my top deanery easily, but since we could register for FPAS I've been searching for jobs and compared to everywhere else, the combinations are rubbish. I really want to do a Renal job but there are literally none. Now I'm torn between jobs versus geography!

Reply 90

Helenia

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Original post by divinelord

Can someone please explain to me exactly what the "attraction" is about having a job in London? I don't have any family there and I can only image how expensive it'll be compared to anywhere else.

Why do people (who are not from London) want to apply to London?

I went there because my boyfriend (now husband) was working there - he's an economist so the vast majority of jobs in his field are in London. I was not a fan of London beforehand, didn't even consider the London schools when I was applying to medicine and was very glad that I didn't have to transfer for clinical years, but it's much more manageable as an adult with a decent salary than it would have been as a poverty-stricken 18 year old.

People want to go because they want to experience the big city life, work in some of the most famous hospitals in the country/world (though obviously these also exist outside London!) with an incredibly diverse population of both patients and staff. It was a very different experience from what I would have had if I'd stayed in East Anglia. I couldn't see myself staying forever, and have in fact just moved out after 5 years, but I'm glad I did it. And being there in 2012 was pretty incredible, though that's obviously something that won't be relevant to you guys!

Reply 91

shiggydiggy

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Original post by xXxBaby-BooxXx

I thought I had my preferences decided, but now am unsure again :/

Why is this so hard!?

It's fine. You're not the only one completely stumped.

Reply 92

Are there any UoA that people are particularly avoiding?

Obviously there are ones which geographically won't suit you, but are there any others to avoid for other reasons - bad hospitals with poor management, poor support for juniors ect ?

Any info on this sort of thing would be really helpful to help me decide between the huge number of UoAs I know very little about (apart from their location on a map!).

Thanks!

Reply 93

Mushi_master

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Original post by KF99

Are there any UoA that people are particularly avoiding?

Obviously there are ones which geographically won't suit you, but are there any others to avoid for other reasons - bad hospitals with poor management, poor support for juniors ect ?

Any info on this sort of thing would be really helpful to help me decide between the huge number of UoAs I know very little about (apart from their location on a map!).

Thanks!

Tbh that sort of thing isn't going to be generalisable to a whole UoA, rather to the individual trust.

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Reply 94

Original post by Mushi_master

Tbh that sort of thing isn't going to be generalisable to a whole UoA, rather to the individual trust.

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Ah so these sort of things don't really matter until a later stage then! Oh well, thanks anyway!

I think I have my rankings now... Scary!

Reply 95

toffeecrisp_

Original post by KF99

I think I have my rankings now... Scary!

Yeah me too..just about! I bet I'll change them at some point over the next fortnight though!

Reply 96

Original post by toffeecrisp_

Yeah me too..just about! I bet I'll change them at some point over the next fortnight though!

Let's just hope that we don't change our minds to much after the submission deadline!

Reply 97

xXxBaby-BooxXx