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which uni is the best for medicine

i will be going to uni soon and i want to study medicine so i would like you nice people to give ideas of were to go.

thanks .

Reply 1

pkonline

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Every med school is very good.

Of course Oxford and Cambridge have the best reputations in everything so those are the two top ones.

Reply 2

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abdirahim

i will be going to uni soon and i want to study medicine so i would like you nice people to give ideas of were to go.

thanks .

there doesnt tend to be a *best* with medicine in terms of degree reputation but i believe newcastle is top of the league tables. however usually whereever you study tends to be where you end up working because of the contacts you make etc so perhaps you should think about where you want to work in the future?

Reply 3

Chicken

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there doesnt tend to be a *best* with medicine in terms of degree reputation but i believe newcastle is top of the league tables. however usually whereever you study tends to be where you end up working because of the contacts you make etc so perhaps you should think about where you want to work in the future?

Leicester is a very good med school. You will find that most places who do a medicine course are highly rated Uni's (well the majority anyway).

Reply 4

lollipop

The 'best' Uni is really up to you, where you think you will benefit and learn most effectively.

For example, you'll find that Oxbridge is the only one that does a traditional course, and in the opposite style of teaching you have Manchester, Liverpool and (im not 100% sure) maybe Glasgow. Whichever floats your boat is the 'best' Uni.

Manchester is currently (well 2003 anyway) the top university for med, but if their teaching etc is not your cup of tea, then it clearly isnt the best for you.

Its really quite a personal thing. QAA are not that good to base a decision on, you have to do some serious book bashing, go to some open Days and talk to people.

And yea, the Uni has the be pretty good if it can provide a med course, they all have to be approved by the GMC and follow their 'Tommorows Doctor' guidelines

Reply 5

abdirahim

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lollipop

The 'best' Uni is really up to you, where you think you will benefit and learn most effectively.

For example, you'll find that Oxbridge is the only one that does a traditional course, and in the opposite style of teaching you have Manchester, Liverpool and (im not 100% sure) maybe Glasgow. Whichever floats your boat is the 'best' Uni.

Manchester is currently (well 2003 anyway) the top university for med, but if their teaching etc is not your cup of tea, then it clearly isnt the best for you.

Its really quite a personal thing. QAA are not that good to base a decision on, you have to do some serious book bashing, go to some open Days and talk to people.

And yea, the Uni has the be pretty good if it can provide a med course, they all have to be approved by the GMC and follow their 'Tommorows Doctor' guidelines

thanks

Reply 6

Unregistered

anyone no what different types of jobs there are in medicine?

Reply 7

MadNatSci

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lollipop

The 'best' Uni is really up to you, where you think you will benefit and learn most effectively.

For example, you'll find that Oxbridge is the only one that does a traditional course, and in the opposite style of teaching you have Manchester, Liverpool and (im not 100% sure) maybe Glasgow. Whichever floats your boat is the 'best' Uni.

Manchester is currently (well 2003 anyway) the top university for med, but if their teaching etc is not your cup of tea, then it clearly isnt the best for you.

Its really quite a personal thing. QAA are not that good to base a decision on, you have to do some serious book bashing, go to some open Days and talk to people.

And yea, the Uni has the be pretty good if it can provide a med course, they all have to be approved by the GMC and follow their 'Tommorows Doctor' guidelines

Lots of people don't like Oxbridge for medicine - apparently it's very scientific and there isn't much patient contact. So I heard anyway!

Reply 8

dazmanultra

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MadNatSci

Lots of people don't like Oxbridge for medicine - apparently it's very scientific and there isn't much patient contact. So I heard anyway!

Yep, no contact until either your penultimate or last year IIRC.

Reply 9

pkonline

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London med schools are very good too, although a lot of people a deterred cos of the cost. You get to be based at a lot of different hopsitals, many are very good specialist units, and the population is very mixed. Really good for seeing rare cases etc...

As people say, try visiting a few schools and talking to people about the course structure and see if you prefer certain teaching techniques like PBL, dissection-based anatomy, clinical contact early on.

By the time you take out the ones which you don't like, the choice will be much more easier.

IMO every med school has a good reputation in its own way.

Reply 10

WBC

Try Birmingham. A very well respected University for Med. I did Medical Sciences there.

Newcastle is also meant to be very good?

Reply 11

joyabbott

Just wanted to agree with what has been said really. All med schools have good reputations, and it really makes no difference which one you attend. Oxbridge has actually been criticised for it's traditional course, and to retain GMC approval will probably have to make major changes soon.

Choose the medschool and course that you think will suit you best. I recommend you visit medschoolguide.co.uk if you haven't already. It's a fantastic site for prospective medical students.

Joy

Reply 12

Helenia

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MadNatSci

Lots of people don't like Oxbridge for medicine - apparently it's very scientific and there isn't much patient contact. So I heard anyway!

Yeah, that much is true. We get a crappy little "Preparing for Patients course" which basically means two sessions a year for the first three years. After that we go into clinical training, for two and a half years if you stay on at Cambridge, or three if you go anywhere else (Cambridge only keeps on 130 clinical students, the rest go to London or Oxford). Once you're in clinical training, you get as much patient contact as anywhere else.

For a lot of people this isn't their cup of tea; if you want to be in with patients from day one, then you need to go somewhere else. I love it though - I find anatomy and biochemistry really interesting, and I feel that this style of course will give me a fantastic grounding in the background to everything. Some people would hate it, and find PBL unis like Manchester and Liverpool much better, whereas I'd always be scared that I'd missed out something really important there, that I'd need one day.

Cambridge has done a lot of updating of its medical course in the last couple of years, for example introducing the PfP module and reducing the amount of pure anatomy needing to be done (students used to practically live in the dissecting room for the first two years). I'm perfectly happy here - it all depends on your style of learning. There aren't any really bad medical schools, as far as I know.

Reply 13

medicwannabe

Hi
How does Newcastle rate as a medical school does anyone know?
Will i be ok for working abroad (australia) temporarily after i graduate, if i go there?

Thanks

Reply 14

joyabbott

Whereever you graduate from in the UK will put you in a good position for working abroad for a while in future. I'm certainly planning on a year or so in Aus/NZ, although whether this will be possible may depend on the changes likely to occur in 'training programmes' :frown:

Reply 15

lovely_girl

I'm thinking of applying to Cambridge to read medicine...but I'm probably going to stay there for the first 3 years, and then go to ICL for the clinical part. What I want to know is -how- scientific the course at cambridge is...I'm not quite sure what it means. What does your day consist of? I mean, how many lectures, seminars, practicals do you have each day, and is it -too- science based? What exactly is the "preparing for patients" course? I've heard about it, but don't know what it is!!! Well, thank you in advance, and sorry for all of those questions!!!
-lovely girl

Reply 16

joyabbott

www.medschoolguide.co.uk

Reply 17

joyabbott

ok, that link doesn't work...

it's medschoolguide.co.uk

Reply 18

*starbuck*

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MadNatSci

Lots of people don't like Oxbridge for medicine - apparently it's very scientific and there isn't much patient contact. So I heard anyway!

Its down to personal choice; from the med students I've spoken to thats precisely why they like Oxbridge and St Andrews too...I read somewhere "an ‘ordinary’ integrated course teaches you to be a mechanic who can fix a car but a science-orientated course like Oxbridge and St Andrews teaches you to be an engineer who has sufficient knowledge and understanding to build a car" You learn the underlying science of how the human body works before you start applying it to patients - why IMO is great!

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