TSR Med Students' Society Part III

It's absolutely sickening and a belligerent attack on the founding principles of the NHS.

Or a way to potentially save it.

I'm divided on the issue, but this is more complicated than you're making it out to be.

Or a way to potentially save it.

I'm divided on the issue, but this is more complicated than you're making it out to be.

No that's not it

There is a specific term for it that only means that one specific thing. And it's not angiogenesis - the arteries are already there, they just open up more to accommodate more blood to become the major artery in the limb.

Whilst we're on the topic of exams, what do people think of not disclosing marks and scores and simply having a pass or fail system? Obviously marks and the like are collected for foundation post ranking purposes and analysing the examination system etc., but they are not published for students. The students are just told if they passed or failed (or any borderline-type marks that some schools give out).

I feel like it might reduce some of the petty competition that seems rife amongst medical students and facilitate students learning from each other.

In principle I agree with you, but I've experienced idiotic things like people being reluctant to disclose a resource they got a certain piece of information from or not contributing in PBL so as to avoid disseminating their work.

It's a pretty big step up. Why not increase it to 10 % or 20 %? A move to allow trusts to hit a maximum of almost half seems dodge viper if you catch my drift.

In terms if which examinations? Except for our professionalism module the rest of our exams are pass/fail but we are given a mark as well.

I have begun to notice this as well.

The entire point of PBL would be to share your knowledge within the group, teach your peers to enhance your collective knowledge. Why some people who have clearly done the learning and been to all the same sessions we have been to are reluctant to speak up even though we all know the stuff.

All of them.


Some people are just too shy to speak up (which is an issue in itself, really), others are perfectly comfortable with it but elect not to in order to avoid other people having access to what they've done.

I was reffering to those who are not too shy, but choose not to to retain their perceived advantage for assessments.

We get a graph for each of our Knowledge tests like this:



Which ranks you against your cohort and previous tests.

Or a way to potentially save it.

I'm divided on the issue, but this is more complicated than you're making it out to be.

Yeah, I agree with Kinkers.

My gut instinct tells me that 49% is too high. 2% is a joke though. I'm more against the 2% than I am the 49%. Given the option of only those two I'd lean towards the 49%.

I think somewhere the middle would gain the best of both worlds though.

The waiting times for those with large financial deficits are already going to be **** anyway.

I also don't quite understand the quote from Dr Peter Carter, "This will undoubtedly lead to a situation whereby those who can afford to pay will get faster access to better treatment, with increased waiting times and a decrease in quality for NHS patients." Well no **** Sherlock. That's how it works anyway.

Private is only available for certain treatments anyway, it's not like you're going to get a kidney/treatment for an MI quicker if you're willing to pay for it, legally anyway.

Save what? Making such a huge leap with private income for 'NHS' hospitals really changes what the 'NHS' is, to the point where you're saving a title, not an organisation.

I quite like that. We get a similar sort of thing for our OSSEs/OSCEs and it's generally been received well.

The NHS cannot feasibly continue as it is. The oldies are getting older; the fatties are getting fatter; the drunkies are getting drunker. The general burden on the NHS is growing.

Reorganisation of the NHS does not necessarily require increased privatisation. I don't think you or I are qualified to say how well the NHS can or cannot continue. Certainly the opposition, reliably or otherwise, rebuke many of the coalition's decisions to increase privatisation in the NHS.

No, but the world cannot conform to every ideological concept to make everything 'fine and dandy'. I'm not clued up enough to know, ultimately, whether this change is a good thing or not (and I suspect most people are in this category), but sustaining things as are they is going to be one hell of a struggle, irrespective of how much you want to ignore the issues.

Ugh, this kinda talk is far too heavy for the holidays. Gaming anyone?

I got Skyward Sword for Christmas - it's awesome