MEDICINE - RESULTS DAY 2015 - I met my offer and got into medical school!

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Reply 80

ForestCat

Original post by Dr. Django

Certainly, going out tonight with some friends so should be a good one!

Probably just as well you rested up :wink:

Enjoy!

Reply 81

joeymr

Original post by Dr. Django

Congratulations to everyone, you've done amazingly and I know how relieved you all must feel!!I got into Exeter and Im just so happy and relieved. Last year I was so close to giving up on medicine after missing the grades for my offers, but I persevered and a year later its finally paid off! I just cannot wait to start uni now :smile:

Glad to hear things have worked out for you this year dude! Very much deserved! Hope you're buzzing to start, you'll love it :biggrin:

Reply 82

Mutmit287

I found this thread kind of late... but i have been busy celebrating...

As many of you who have seen me around TSR lately know, I though I was going to fail chemistry and loose my place at Cardiff medical school! But oh was I wrong!!

I got A*AA today and finally my dream of getting into medical school has come true and im on the path to becoming a doctor!

Watch out world!

Reply 83

HygieneTherapy15

Well done everyone :biggrin:

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Reply 84

Helenia

Congratulations everyone! Enjoy it!

Reply 85

zed963

Hey guys,

I'm due to start medicine this September at Manchester. Do any of you have any tips for the first year in regards to how I should plan revision or which books to use etc?

Reply 86

colabottles

Congrats everyone, you must all be so relieved!! :smile:

Original post by zed963

Hey guys,

I'm due to start medicine this September at Manchester. Do any of you have any tips for the first year in regards to how I should plan revision or which books to use etc?

My advice (although I'm probably nearer one end of a very broad spectrum of how people approach medicine haha) is to not work too hard in first year. Seriously I wish somebody had told me this and I'd have listened! It's a steep learning curve and you will have to work harder than you did at a-level to keep up. But don't do what I did and do all nighters all the time and sacrifice nights out to study - it is just not worth it, first year doesn't count for much (if anything!!) so just enjoy it :smile:

With regards to books, I would recommend seeing what the library has and having a flick through before you buy anything. So many people make the mistake of jumping straight in and buying kumar and clarke when in reality it's only really as useful as a hefty doorstop until you reach the clinical years! But I would recommend having a flick through Gray's Anatomy as well as Moore and Agur, have a look at Rang and Dale for pharmacology (although it's possibly a bit complicated), apart from that the 'At A Glance' series served me extremely well!

Reply 87

Bambie33

Got A*AA and going to study medicine at Plymouth! So happy!

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Reply 88

Maannashon

Original post by Neostigmine

Congrats! How are you celebrating?

Sorry didnt see your reply. I actually still havent done anything to celebrate 😕.

Reply 89

staks

Original post by violin101

Made it to UCL despite technically missing my offer, I'm liking all this talk of sleep - feeling exhausted!

I'm going to UCL too!! I am so excited!!

Reply 90

DCMed96

Going to Imperial!! :h:

Anyone going as well? (any other london medics out there?) :colondollar:

Reply 91

science-oliver

Is it just the content that's greater in first year medicine compared to a-level, or do exams completely stretch your knowledge with application questions like they did in a-level biology?

Reply 92

Mel1312

Yay Southampton here I come :h:

I still haven't celebrated. I don't think its suck in yet...

Reply 93

kes1996

Original post by DCMed96

Going to Imperial!! :h:

Anyone going as well? (any other london medics out there?) :colondollar:

Going to King's :biggrin:

Reply 94

Matriix

Original post by DCMed96

Going to Imperial!! :h:

Anyone going as well? (any other london medics out there?) :colondollar:

Barts!

Reply 95

sotonmedic

Original post by Mel1312

Yay Southampton here I come :h:

I still haven't celebrated. I don't think its suck in yet...

Congratulations!
I'm just going into my third year at Southampton, let me know if you have any questions :smile:

Reply 96

DCMed96

Original post by kes1996

Going to King's :biggrin:

Original post by Clubba

Barts!

If you guys don't mind, PM me and we can chat and start from there! :smile:

Would be really great if we can meet up in real life via TSR :P

Reply 97

Drmischief

Original post by DCMed96

If you guys don't mind, PM me and we can chat and start from there! :smile:

Would be really great if we can meet up in real life via TSR :P

I got into kings too!

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Reply 98

colabottles

Original post by science-oliver

Is it just the content that's greater in first year medicine compared to a-level, or do exams completely stretch your knowledge with application questions like they did in a-level biology?

In my experience the content jump is huge, you'll be used to recapping things multiple times whereas that will be a lot more difficult in uni. The content is obviously more difficult too but I don't think any of it is too taxing; I personally wasn't given any clinical application questions or anything similar until I hit the clinical phases but it definite varies by uni - for example PBL is much more clinically relevant so may use applied knowledge to a greater extent.