Cardiff University Medicine Applicants 2017

Hi, I have a score of 24/27 and I'm wondering whether I stand a chance of getting an interview at Cardiff, I really liked it on the open day and I really want to go!! Do you think I'll be rejected straight away? or have a chance at an interview?

Hello there,

I honestly cannot say, hopefully you should find out soon, but with the new MMI interviews and the cohort effect its impossible to know currently what is and is not competitive enough.

Did anyone here get an A in AQA AS Chemistry (new spec)

Hi,

Is the course at Cardiff Integrated, PBL or traditional ? If integrated is that a mixture of PBL and traditional ? In some universities integrated just means it is traditional but with early clinical experience.

Thanks

Cardiffs course is CBL, this is known as guided enquiry of learning.

As a brief description integrated means integration of clinical practice and science, this often comes in the way of early clinical contact, hence a course can be PBL and integrated or traditional and integrated.

Cardiff is a CBL integrated medical course which places a lot of emphasis around early patient contact and a spiral curriculum. To put this into a bit more context we use cases every 2 weeks to learn. For example a case could be about cardiovascular disease, for that case we would spend two weeks devising learning outcomes and answering them (3 3 hour sessions over the two weeks, monday, monday and friday) over the course of the week, each CBL session is in groups of 8-12 with a facilitator to guide your learning. We then have placement once a week and lectures, classes, tutorials and labs to consolidate our learning. this is for the first two years.

in later years you become more clinical based. often everything you cover in each case will be revisited at a later date, this is the great thing about the spiral curiculum as it allows you to add on more information whilst revising.

Hope this helps.

Thanks so much Natalie, this is so good. You have explained it better than the website. On the medic portal the course is described as integrated. CBL sounds similar to PBL,

So no one's heard anything so far?

So no one's heard anything so far?

This is from their admissions policy (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/357809/Admissions-Policy-for-Undergraduate-Programmes-in-Medicine-2017-18.pdf):

"For 2017 entry, applicants will be required to attend multiple mini interviews. Selection for interview is based on academic performance. For those selected for interview, applicants will attend a 10 station multiple mini interview. These interviews will take place over a three week period: 30th November 2016 – 14th December 2016 18th January 2017 – 25th January 2017".

From my experience, Medical schools tend to give around atleast 2 weeks notice prior to the interview date allow you to prepare/ arrange transport and accommodation.

i got 5 days notice and I was interviewed in late November, so it does differ. I think we should expect to hear back about some interviews within the next 2/3 weeks.

Can someone's please explain how the point scoring system works for Cardiff? I've looked all over and can't find anything out about it!

They count 9 GCSEs - 3 points for an A* , 2 for A and 1 for B.

You must include 3 sciences, maths and english language in that 9. They also do not allow you to count additional/further maths at gcse.

If you have achieved A levels then you can add 3 points for an A* and 2 for and A.

Last year you needed 26/27 points for an interview. This is because people tend to apply to a university based on their strenghths. So you will find people applying here with strong GCSEs and achieved A levels.