Exeter medical school applicants 2015!

Hey guys, International student checking in, I have my interview in Feb and was looking for a convenient place to stay? Also what would be the best way from the airport to the convenient place and from the convenient place to the university? thanks a lot

There are some hotels in Exeter which you may want to consider? The details should be in the information booklet sent with the interview invite to your email. Best way of travelling from the airport would be to take the train imo. What country do you live in, by the way?

Thanks for the info. Flying over from Hong Kong!

Oh wow, that's a very long way away! When are you planning to fly over then?

Hey guys, International student checking in, I have my interview in Feb and was looking for a convenient place to stay? Also what would be the best way from the airport to the convenient place and from the convenient place to the university? thanks a lot

I need some help/advice please! As part of my Health and Social Care Sub. Diploma course, I have to do work experience for two weeks, and I need to get my DBS form sorted out for it. However, I attended an interview at Exeter Med School a couple of weeks back and I had to bring my identification documents for the DBS there as well. Now, I don't know if I should re-do the DBS check for the work experience since I'm worried that it may result in a fraud. The deadline for the DBS check is fast approaching, and I don't know what to do. Please help!

I need some help/advice please! As part of my Health and Social Care Sub. Diploma course, I have to do work experience for two weeks, and I need to get my DBS form sorted out for it. However, I attended an interview at Exeter Med School a couple of weeks back and I had to bring my identification documents for the DBS there as well. Now, I don't know if I should re-do the DBS check for the work experience since I'm worried that it may result in a fraud. The deadline for the DBS check is fast approaching, and I don't know what to do. Please help!

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Exeter won't submit your DBS until you accept an offer with them (I think) so you definitely need to go-ahead with your other DBS otherwise you risk losing your placement…
As far as I know there is nothing fraudulent about filling in 2 at once as long as everything you say on them is true.

Sorry, my bad...

Any grads know what the cut-off was for Exeter for 2015 entry? Or if not can you let me know what score you got so I have a good idea

Has anyone figured out what Exeter are playing at with 2 reserve lists?

They have given interviews, to how many people?
Then they have put people on a reserve list who have also had interviews and might get offers depending on original list interview performance and spaces?
Finally, they have put people on an interview reserve list to possibly have an interview if the offer reserve list people fail?

What is the point of the final reserve list? surely their method of selecting applicants chooses the potential best doctors in their opinion so whats the need for all these reserve lists if the selection process is meant to fish out the best anyway. I definitely need to call admissions in the new academic year but I dont really know how to phrase the question.

Hudl this is a miserable process but, having watched it for 2 years (over 7 med schools) I think this is what's happening:
The med schools are under incredible pressure to not exceed their quota of med students (huge financial penalties if they do) and yet they all want to take their full allowance (they'll get paid per capita so don't want to miss-out on numbers). This means that they actually want the exact number they're allowed.
They can't risk too many offers (penalised heavily) so they have to make fewer offers than they think they need to.
All the med schools do the same. But generally it is common for them all to choose the same people so loads of candidates have multiple offers and will therefore only accept one whilst loads of other candidates have none.
Once they have made their initial offers they are all then poised to pounce on the remaining 'pool' of unplaced applicants and they all desperately want to get their very best 'near misses' (rather than accepting poor interview performers or students whose academics are lower). The reserve interviews give them a list of people who are high interview performers (but marginally lower academically). They usually hold a post-interview reserve list too from the main batch of interviews (marginally poorer at interview but still high academics). Once students firm/insure/reject their offers the universities look at numbers and send out final batches of offers to whichever list they deem more desirable (probably the top of both lists). If they still fall short on numbers they can set up another interview date in April to find some other strong candidates who haven't yet been interviewed and they would take these candidates from the pre-interview reserve list.
By putting a student on one of these lists they are letting you know where you stand, keeping a log of 'students of interest' and also keeping you interested (students are less likely to hastily accept one offer if they know they may hear back from their first choice if they are patient).

Depending on what list you're on it would be perfectly reasonable to ask them how many are on the list and what your position on the list is. Based on past experience what percentage of those on the list might be likely to be made an offer? How long ago it was they needed to set up an extra interview date (from the pre-interview reserves) and how many they interviewed on that occasion?

Last year my daughter was on the pre-interview reserve list for one of her choices (not Exeter) and we found out that the last time they had called anyone to interview from that list was 5 years before; it certainly helped put things in perspective at the time...

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The cap is silly. You see all over the news that we need more GP's and other consultants, yet there is still a cap on the amount we can train. And, no offence intended whatsoever, my friend's nan was very poorly a few years ago and she was treated by a doctor who trained over here from the EU, they had to ask for another consultant on the ward who was Australian as they couldn't understand what he was saying. Apparently they kept having to ask him to repeat himself(I do disagree with what they were saying about needing more British Doctors, I like that we diversify it slightly..but at the same time i cna sort of see their point of view)


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I agree with what you're saying about numbers. I'm a GP and we have a huge recruitment crisis caused by too many early retirements and too few coming in to the career.
I think that part of the trouble is that the degree of medicine has become desirable for people who have no wish to work as doctors - some go off to work for big law firms on medical cases, some disappear into research, some just jump ship into something more lucrative...