Biomedical Science Society Thread

haha, biochem isn't bad at all...I do really enjoy that side. For some reason, I found out early this year that I'm gifted in my metabolism module, even though the only reason I picked it is because it fit well into my timetable and I was one module short.

Genetttiiccsssss FTW!! lol I can't stand physiology!!

I'm trying to revise neuroscience right now, it's a bitch!

I don't know whether to study biomed.

The pros of it is it would be good to get a degree when applying later after studying medicine.

Also it will prepare me for some of the course at med school

I won't be left behind spending a year doing nothing while friends are at uni
The cons are that I have to pay more money to do this degree AND study medicine rather than just medicine

It isn't the degree I want to do - i want to study medicine

I don't think QMUL has a respectable enough course for me to substitute what I want to do
I'll probably end up depressed studying something I don't want to do
Have to wait 3 years before I'm able to apply for Medicine whereas if I take a gap year I can apply for 2012.

I don't know what to do.....

I don't know whether to study biomed.

The pros of it is it would be good to get a degree when applying later after studying medicine.

Also it will prepare me for some of the course at med school

I won't be left behind spending a year doing nothing while friends are at uni
The cons are that I have to pay more money to do this degree AND study medicine rather than just medicine

It isn't the degree I want to do - i want to study medicine

I don't think QMUL has a respectable enough course for me to substitute what I want to do
I'll probably end up depressed studying something I don't want to do
Have to wait 3 years before I'm able to apply for Medicine whereas if I take a gap year I can apply for 2012.

I don't know what to do.....

Alright, so looking at the conversation above, what is it about the biomed course that gets people into thinking that we are all reject medics and that the course is really easy, and generally not as respected as it should be?

I mean, I'm in second year at Kings, doing biomed. I've got a lot of medic friends, lots of dentist friends etc and whenever I'm complaining about workload, or stressing about revision, they are always soooo cynical about the fact that I actually have to do work. I don't understand! They think that unless you're doing dentistry or medicine, your course is piss easy.

It's so annoying, and even when I was in freshers saying "Hi, nice to meet you, what's your name, I'm doing Biomed" the straight assumption is "oh yeah, you're going to medicine when you finish then?" ermm...no, because some of us actually want to do that degree. Because I got the grades for medicine in a level, I get asked "omg, so you really actually WANT to do biomed....?"

Even at Kings, and a lot of other unis, biomed is filled with people who want to do medicine or dentistry, and it almost demeans the degree as a second best option or not very good or whatever.

lol, rant over!

Alright, so looking at the conversation above, what is it about the biomed course that gets people into thinking that we are all reject medics and that the course is really easy, and generally not as respected as it should be?

I mean, I'm in second year at Kings, doing biomed. I've got a lot of medic friends, lots of dentist friends etc and whenever I'm complaining about workload, or stressing about revision, they are always soooo cynical about the fact that I actually have to do work. I don't understand! They think that unless you're doing dentistry or medicine, your course is piss easy.

It's so annoying, and even when I was in freshers saying "Hi, nice to meet you, what's your name, I'm doing Biomed" the straight assumption is "oh yeah, you're going to medicine when you finish then?" ermm...no, because some of us actually want to do that degree. Because I got the grades for medicine in a level, I get asked "omg, so you really actually WANT to do biomed....?"

Even at Kings, and a lot of other unis, biomed is filled with people who want to do medicine or dentistry, and it almost demeans the degree as a second best option or not very good or whatever.

lol, rant over!

Well said! I went to the doctors today (have tonsilitus) asked him when I have to pay prescription costs and then we got talking about costs for uni etc... and he mentioned that he studied at SGUL (and I've insured with them). He basically said that its a really tough and full course, most of the lectures are shared (medine and biomed) and biomeds have to work a lot harder!

Agreed, + rep from me

for some reason i have get my head around HIV infection and antiviral drugs and all the mechmism behind that but I can't get my head around infection by pathogenic bacteria

I'm also struggling with microbiology.
My exam is on Wednesday, arrgghhh!!!!

Its a pick 3 essays from 6 exam,
Im hoping for antibiotic inhibition of protein synthesis,
human microflora in health and disease
and foodborne infection

Nice questions that dont require endless facts about hundreds of different bacteria

To try and help you:
Look at virulence factors, pathogenicity and opportunistic pathogens.
Virulence being the main, you should pick up some nice info about how bacteria infect the host at the molecular level.

half way through my exams, had microbiology and immunology and mammalian biochemistry just got genes and genomes and lab skills to go now ugh effort.

Starting my project in a few weeks, looking at the p10 gene in baculovirus and the effect on the packaging of viruses in cell cultures.

Starting my project in a few weeks, looking at the p10 gene in baculovirus and the effect on the packaging of viruses in cell cultures.

that sounds pretty cool, do you have a clue about it? nice to have some background stuff

my project was a bit off the deep end stuff EPR, free radicals

Yeah i know quite abit about it, one of our labs this year was about it, we infected larvae with the virus and watched them die practically