Leicester applicants?

I'm a 3rd year medical student at UoLeicester. I used to look here and a few other places (Med school Guide forums and Medical Admissions forums if they're still around) for help in my application and general Medicine information.

Anyway, thought I'd return the favour and just post this here to see if people have any questions specific to Leicester. Pick my brain.

I'm a 3rd year medical student at UoLeicester. I used to look here and a few other places (Med school Guide forums and Medical Admissions forums if they're still around) for help in my application and general Medicine information.

Anyway, thought I'd return the favour and just post this here to see if people have any questions specific to Leicester. Pick my brain.

How many interviews and offers do leicester give out for the 5yr course?

How is the interview process handled? I still haven't received an invitation for interview/rejection.

What makes Leicester a good uni to study at compared to the other unis?

Do you know anything about Maths/Engineering at Leicester. My Brother applied to Engineering and I'm thinking of doing Maths/Engineering, maybe at Leicester...

Hello -
I have my interview soon, and I was wondering if I had take take my passport or not? I've left the letter at my dad's house, and can't get access to it.

I'm a 3rd year medical student at UoLeicester. I used to look here and a few other places (Med school Guide forums and Medical Admissions forums if they're still around) for help in my application and general Medicine information.

Anyway, thought I'd return the favour and just post this here to see if people have any questions specific to Leicester. Pick my brain.

-How much patient contact do you get at the start?
-Do you mean PBL in the sense that there's little/no supervision or is this small group teaching with a lecturer?
-What is it like living in the halls?
-How did you prepare for your interview and what sort of things came up?
i think thats it for now, but i'd really appreciate it if you could answer these questions

I would say little. The first year there's not much. A course called People and Disease will introduce you to one patient whom you meet several times over phase 1 along with another patient you find yourself in hospital and discuss their (chronic) illness. The end of the course is a 10,000 word dissertation at the end of year 2/over the summer. Besides this mid way through your second year you begin doing one session a week at hospitals with a doctor in which you take patient histories and perform examinations, to ease you into phase two, mid way through the 3rd year from which point it alll becomes hospital based.

I personally feel early heavy patient contact can't be much more than a novelty, you don't know enough to learn or understand many things at that stage. Leicester is massive on the touchy feely communication aspect, and we're known for producing doctors good in this area, so our system certainly doesn't hurt us in that respect.

The PBL (don't call it this if it comes up in interviews) involves 1 or 2 clinical demonstrators per room (usually junior doctors) and 4 groups of 8-9 people. The clin dems usually help out if you get stuck. In the first semester they're keen you try the questions before group work, but this eases up.

Halls at Leicester are much better than most unis, and a newly opened hall (our yr were the first to use it, so you'd be the 4th yr) is very nice (John Foster). The others are also mostly good. They're about 25 mins walk away from the main campus which is a bit of a trek if you don't get a bus pass, but the advantage is the area is a very green and open suburb. Otherwise it's the same as other unis.

I think i just read my personal statement a few times and considered possible questions they could ask from it. In addition i went over general questions like Why Leics, why do you want to be a doctor etc. Most important thing is to stay came and answer confidently.