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Reply 40

thanette

UCL baby. But think about what your next step is and if this choice would affect that next step in any way first.

Reply 41

Elles

Pepe Le Poosh

They should have one set of letters for all! Like in america isn't a medical degree and MD everywhere?

What? Next you'll be saying all medical schools are all exactly the same and equally good?! :rolleyes:

*wields tin-opener* :p:

Reply 42

Spencer Wells

rhythm_bandit

lol is ucl copying imperial and leaving the uol as well??

They're just exercising their rights to award their own degrees. KCL and LSE are doing the same.

Reply 43

Comp_Genius

Helenia

Londinium, I'd have thought. :wink:

I go for (Lond) for no particularly good reason.

But MA MBBChir (Cantab) definitely has more letters, if we're competing. :p:

Technically, you can be:

B.A. (Hons. Cantab.) M.A. (Cantab.) M.B. B.Chir (Cantab). :cool:

it really takes the piss though.

Reply 44

Elles

Comp_Genius

Technically, you can be:

B.A. (Hons. Cantab.) M.A. (Cantab.) M.B. B.Chir (Cantab). :cool:

it really takes the piss though.

Technically, would you bother with that? The M.A. is an honorary upgrade of the B.A., not achievable as a postgrad qualification = unnecessary repetition!
White space is important too... :wink:

If anyone is particularly interested: linky about the bonus MA (Cantab) & superior MA (Oxon).

Reply 45

Comp_Genius

Elles

Technically, would you bother with that? The M.A. is an honorary upgrade of the B.A., not achievable as a postgrad qualification = unnecessary repetition!
White space is important too... :wink:

If anyone is particularly interested: linky about the bonus MA (Cantab) & superior MA (Oxon).

http://cot.food.gov.uk/membership/members/prjackson

http://www.fda.gov/Cber/advisory/tse/telling.htm

:biggrin:

Reply 46

Sarky

Everyone forgets BM goddammit.

BM = Bachelor of medicine. Yes I can still be a surgeon.

I'd go with the UCL one. I have no idea why.

Reply 47

Beska

According to Wikipedia:

MB ChB are used at the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Keele, Manchester, Sheffield, and Warwick.
MB BS are used at the University of East Anglia, Hull York Medical School, Imperial College London, the University of London, and Newcastle University.
BM BCh are used at the University of Oxford.
BM BS are used at the University of Nottingham, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, and Brighton Sussex Medical School
BM is awarded at the University of Southampton.
MB BChir are awarded by the University of Cambridge.

They're all equal, obviously. Quite interesting! :smile:

Reply 48

ThisLittlePiggy

UCL so we can sing;

" U C L Y you ain't got no alibi you UCLY!"

:sass:

Reply 49

ChemistBoy

Democracy

Surely short for londoniensis?

Londiniensis would be correctly abbreviated to Londin., however there is little tradition for the University of London to use such an abbreviation compared to Oxbridge, Durham, Exeter, York, etc. (especially considering the latter is a modern university).

Reply 50

username43584

Beska

Queens, Belfast uses MB BCh BAO, as do all the other Irish med schools.

Reply 51

jjkkll

ThisLittlePiggy

UCL so we can sing;

" U C L Y you ain't got no alibi you UCLY!"

:sass:

that was cool :biggrin:

Reply 52

Comp_Genius

wow - how do you transfer to the irish universities for clinicals?

the extra B.A.O. will look well cool after my name!

Reply 53

graemematt

Haven't read all the posts here, but erm...people actually put the name of their medical school in brackets after their MBBS/MBChB?? :s-smilie:

(cant wait to see mine, MBChB (War) (HUH, YEAH, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR, ABSOLUTELY NUTHIN! :biggrin:

)

...ahem. I picked UCL as it's never a bad thing to have UCL in your name. Especially if you're from somewhere like Belgium or Hungary, where those 3 letters commonly appear in names anyway..

Reply 54

clank

londinium i believe is the latin right???? :biggrin:

defo UCL

Reply 55

ChemistBoy

clank

londinium i believe is the latin right???? :biggrin:

Londinium is the latin for 'London'
Londiniensis is the latin for 'Of London' which is the form used for degrees.

Reply 56

crazyhelicopter

Lond for the reasons I said earlier

Only posting again because just found out I'm BSc (Hons) (Lond) which makes me happy, I like letters

Thanks Spencer

Reply 57