St George's Medicine Applicants 2014

All medicine courses are standardised by the GMC so it ultimately on a qualification basis doesn't matter where you go. However as I said before you'll be spending 5 years somewhere, I personally think I'll be very very happy at St George's due to location and teaching preferences.

I feel like that too especially whem comparing the hospitals we will be doing placements at with other unis eg kings.
Apparently st.helias is very run down and doesnt really have much modern facilities.

This might sound a bit dumb but I wont really have a 100% positive attitude if the clinical experiences arent like what other med schools provide..........

so that means you like pbl?
I actually dont know how we are suppossed to learn through this method. I have tried it before like at summer schools for med and during a level lessons but it seems to be uselesss....

And what's your reasoning to say that the clinical experiences aren't what other med schools provide? As a first year what are you really hoping for?! St. Heliers may well be considered 'run down', but St. Georges is considered a major trauma centre so will an A&E placement there be rubbish in contrast to one at Kings? No.

I have friends at Kings, Oxford, Bristol and all of our experiences are very similar in terms of placement.

If you don't feel you'll have a 100 % positive attitude towards it then perhaps you shouldn't be going to med school...

can someone please give me a list of pros of studying at st George's..

I'm dreading starting there in september because it's the complete opposite of where I hoped I would end up for uni - the area is meh, uni rep is meh

should I take a gap year and hope to get into better medical schools?

I would take any place as long as I have a place. I know it sounds desperate but if you have a place to study medicine you should take it as the competitions too high and you have no idea whether you'll get better places next year, and also if you did not want to go to a uni why apply there


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Taking a gap year when you have a firm place for medicine is idiotic. There is nothing to say you'll get in anywhere next year and you have a place this year. It's up to you but if you want to do medicine I would take it.


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I feel like that too especially whem comparing the hospitals we will be doing placements at with other unis eg kings.
Apparently st.helias is very run down and doesnt really have much modern facilities.

And what's your reasoning to say that the clinical experiences aren't what other med schools provide? As a first year what are you really hoping for?! St. Heliers may well be considered 'run down', but St. Georges is considered a major trauma centre so will an A&E placement there be rubbish in contrast to one at Kings? No.

I have friends at Kings, Oxford, Bristol and all of our experiences are very similar in terms of placement.

If you don't feel you'll have a 100 % positive attitude towards it then perhaps you shouldn't be going to med school...

can someone please give me a list of pros of studying at st George's..

I'm dreading starting there in september because it's the complete opposite of where I hoped I would end up for uni - the area is meh, uni rep is meh

should I take a gap year and hope to get into better medical schools?

I feel like that too especially whem comparing the hospitals we will be doing placements at with other unis eg kings.
Apparently st.helias is very run down and doesnt really have much modern facilities.

This might sound a bit dumb but I wont really have a 100% positive attitude if the clinical experiences arent like what other med schools provide..........

Taking a gap year when you have a firm place for medicine is idiotic. There is nothing to say you'll get in anywhere next year and you have a place this year. It's up to you but if you want to do medicine I would take it.


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I feel like that too especially whem comparing the hospitals we will be doing placements at with other unis eg kings.
Apparently st.helias is very run down and doesnt really have much modern facilities.

All medicine courses are standardised by the GMC so it ultimately on a qualification basis doesn't matter where you go. However as I said before you'll be spending 5 years somewhere, I personally think I'll be very very happy at St George's due to location and teaching preferences.

http://www.mymedschool.co.uk

This website is really helpful when it comes to gaining an insight into medical schools and what they're like. It also gives you pros and cons.

I would take any place as long as I have a place. I know it sounds desperate but if you have a place to study medicine you should take it as the competitions too high and you have no idea whether you'll get better places next year, and also if you did not want to go to a uni why apply there


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You will spending 5 years at the uni... minimum.

If you hate it before you get there... you're not going to have a great start to uni. If you don't want to learn the georges way...then I'd say don't go to georges.

If you're saying your dreading georges maybe gap year is best. You can work on your application go travelling get some money together... but there is no guarantee for a place next year.

But if you don't want to go to a uni... don't go to it. If you're dreading it... like DREADING IT like its something you feel like you have to do... rather than really really want to do... I would really recommend not going

hope this helps

Where were you hoping to end up?

Firstly I'll just say don't feel down about it. I had my heart set on Kings because my boyfriend went there, I loved the uni and he hyped it up so much for me, but then I ended up with a rejection. When I got my offer for SGUL I had literally only been to the uni once, on the interview day, so it felt very weird blindly accepting it as my only offer.

Yes Tooting is a ****hole compared to the likes of central London, but it really isn't that bad. It has it's own charm and pretty much everyone else I know agrees with me when I say that it could seriously be a lot worse the pros about living in Tooting is that it's a LOT cheaper than central London, and trust me, unless you're rich, it makes a HUGE difference. Cost of living is significantly cheaper, and less money spent on rent and food means more money to spend on going out, right?

The uni reputation, seriously, it all goes out of the window when it comes to medicine. And George's is actually very well respected by doctors, I've spoken to many and not one of them has said anything bad about the doctors who graduate from George's. We're generally known to have excellent communication skills, and you figure out very quickly that a doctor with zero commskills is a useless doctor, no matter how good his scientific knowledge is.

Also just on another note, I really think we have a great course. I see my medic friends from Kings and Barts and they're so inundated with exams and deadlines every couple of weeks that they don't get to enjoy their uni life as much as non medics. George's are really nice in the way that they don't stress you out too much in the first two years - they have a really gradual workload, instead of throwing you in the deep end. And our student life is great, there's genuinely something for everyone to get involved with.

Don't be put off by the rep and the area. Just have an open mind and it will all work out

Hope this helps.

thanks..

it's not that I'm DREADING it, more like dreading it: I have moments where I put the arguments you guys gave forward, medical school is medical school, I'll qualify as a doctor which is the most important thing.

but then other times, I think back to when I was in secondary school and was aiming to be at oxbridge or UCL or imperial or king's in five years time..

st George's is a long way off from that.

Tania, the cost isn't really something that I looked at because I live in London - added to the aim i had a few years ago, st George's is so exclusively health focused and on the wrong side of the river to be able to mix with students doing other things

Priyanka, it was the one that out of the four I least wanted to go to.. a backup

thanks..

it's not that I'm DREADING it, more like dreading it: I have moments where I put the arguments you guys gave forward, medical school is medical school, I'll qualify as a doctor which is the most important thing.

but then other times, I think back to when I was in secondary school and was aiming to be at oxbridge or UCL or imperial or king's in five years time..

st George's is a long way off from that.

Tania, the cost isn't really something that I looked at because I live in London - added to the aim i had a few years ago, st George's is so exclusively health focused and on the wrong side of the river to be able to mix with students doing other things

Priyanka, it was the one that out of the four I least wanted to go to.. a backup

thanks..

it's not that I'm DREADING it, more like dreading it: I have moments where I put the arguments you guys gave forward, medical school is medical school, I'll qualify as a doctor which is the most important thing.

but then other times, I think back to when I was in secondary school and was aiming to be at oxbridge or UCL or imperial or king's in five years time..

st George's is a long way off from that.

Tania, the cost isn't really something that I looked at because I live in London - added to the aim i had a few years ago, st George's is so exclusively health focused and on the wrong side of the river to be able to mix with students doing other things

Priyanka, it was the one that out of the four I least wanted to go to.. a backup

Does anyone have an upcoming interview?


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Since no one else has posted anything, i really really really do hope they've finished interviewing

Me too


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