TSR Med Students' Society Part III

Passed my mid-sessional exam, YAY Now just to decide on a BSc

I think i'm applying for surgical sciences at king's. but there's more competition as an external, let's see if i'm lucky!

It looks like a really good course! I was tempted to go for it, but then I saw that they give preference to students who are in third year or above, which makes sense I guess. Good luck with your application!

I think i'm applying for surgical sciences at king's. but there's more competition as an external, let's see if i'm lucky!

I have also applied to King's. Not for surgical sciences though (I'd rather quit medicine).

What you gone for?

Actually, wait i'm guessing pharmacology?

I have to make a 10 minute presentation on current/future treatments of malaria on the 15h and I haven't started yet? Is this seriously bad or not?

Exactly. Many people in this position simply don't know the level to pitch to medical students.


I think that entirely depends where you go. And you'll get some grounding in that if you intercalate, also.


PBL makes an attempt at moulding students into thinking. It doesn't always do it well but with a good facilitator, a nicely constructed case and a decent group of students, it really can.

I really wish you'd stop the whole "students teaching students" malarkey. That's not what PBL is and demonstrates a fundamental misconception. In PBL the idea isn't to be strictly taught everything by your fellows. It does give you the opportunity to ask questions and get things clarified, but nobody in PBL should be teaching you an entire topic. You're supposed to be comfortable with the topic at hand before you walk through the doors to the PBL room (let's face it, there isn't much in medicine that's so conceptually challenging that this is infeasible).

I have to make a 10 minute presentation on current/future treatments of malaria on the 15h and I haven't started yet? Is this seriously bad or not?

Does anyone has a subscription to topics in current chemistry?? If they do, issue 305 is a special issue on prions I need the whole thing if anyone is kind enough to do PDF...Please College has it in hard copy - sods law, the issue is missing, and we're too poor to have a subscription...

I have also applied to King's. Not for surgical sciences though (I'd rather quit medicine).

Does anyone has a subscription to topics in current chemistry?? If they do, issue 305 is a special issue on prions I need the whole thing if anyone is kind enough to do PDF...Please College has it in hard copy - sods law, the issue is missing, and we're too poor to have a subscription...

Pharmacology indeed

Malaria is quite interesting - theres some new drugs out.

I have to explain PBL next week to 6th form students, what am I going to say?

Ugh - psych on call was such a drag. Saw 3 patients in the course of 10 hours and spent almost the entire day doing naff all. Not the career for me.

Exactly why I disliked psych the most, I used to see like 3 patients a week. (Until I went to the ICU (or a similar sounding name) for a week where they had people under sections, try to get some time there if you can. I learnt more in that week than in my entire block).

Ugh - psych on call was such a drag. Saw 3 patients in the course of 10 hours and spent almost the entire day doing naff all. Not the career for me.

Sounds like it could be immense if paired with a decent handheld console.