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Intercalation

Say I wanted to intercalate in the USA, would that be possible? How would I go about doing so?

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Dimez

P.S. I know I mispelt the thread title! :redface:

Reply 1

Muse

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I very much doubt it. Since you already have to be a graduate to apply for medicine in the US, they don't have 'intercalation' options AFAIK for their medical students, and I wouldn't think a normal degree course over there would accept you into their final year based on a couple of relevant pre-clin medical science modules.

It's not even very common to intercalate in other UK universities, especially if it's in a subject your current university offers - the medical school has to also actively release you to study somewhere else.

The majority of medical schools which don't have intercalation built into their curriculum (the inbuilt ones being a 6 year course or 5 for nottingham) set their own requirements for the BSc year, commonly you have to be in the top 25% of the year group. US institutions would find such requirements difficult to grasp as no such medical school course exists over there and inter-university negotiations are, of course, much more difficult, especially as they'd probably want to interview you!

Reply 2

Lecter

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But i suppose during the elective or SSMs you go go to america? I know some medical student friends who prefered having their elective abroad, but isn't that in the majourity of cases?

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Madprof

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sayed_samed

But i suppose during the elective or SSMs you go go to america? I know some medical student friends who prefered having their elective abroad, but isn't that in the majourity of cases?

Sayed: You can certainly do an elective abroad, in fact I think that's what the majority of people do. It may well be possible to do SSMs abroad, but you'll have to check with the places where you're applying as they'll have individual arrangements.

However, these are different to intercalating an entire year and picking up a degree. As Miles said, it's probably not possible to intercalate in the USA, certainly I've never found any information which suggests it happens.

Dimez: I know Cambridge have an arrangement with MIT (I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to spell its full name!) where students can go to MIT for three years and do a PhD between preclinical and clinical. This is from the open day in the summer, I can't find any information online about going to the US though. If you want to do this programme, you have to be accepted by Cambridge clinical school first. If you're interested, contact email is [email protected]

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Lecter

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Madprof

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Dimez: I know Cambridge have an arrangement with MIT (I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to spell its full name!) where students can go to MIT for three years and do a PhD between preclinical and clinical. This is from the open day in the summer, I can't find any information online about going to the US though. If you want to do this programme, you have to be accepted by Cambridge clinical school first. If you're interested, contact email is [email protected]

Thats must be brilliant, studying at MIT. Thats why i wished to have applied to cambridge, you get excellent opportunities that you dont any where else, rarely anyway. :frown:

Reply 5

Dimez

OP

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Oh thanks guys, it seems like chances of intercalating in the US look bleak, oh well. :smile:

Reply 6

Fluffy

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Dimez

Oh thanks guys, it seems like chances of intercalating in the US look bleak, oh well. :smile:

Depends on how you do it. If you're desperate, you can always suspend your studies in the UK, go to the US and do a bachelors and then return and recommence medicine. It's been done before...

Reply 7

WAMS

Dimez

Say I wanted to intercalate in the USA, would that be possible? How would I go about doing so?

Thanks

Dimez

P.S. I know I mispelt the thread title! :redface:

It's rare, but not impossible. There have been people from Leeds who went to Austrailia for a year. I don't think they got a BSc, but they got some sort of qualification.

Also, I know of someone who intercalated a PhD in the states, but that was to do with the research project he did during his intercalated BSc at Leeds.

Good luck!

Reply 8

Muse

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WAMS

It's rare, but not impossible. There have been people from Leeds who went to Austrailia for a year. I don't think they got a BSc, but they got some sort of qualification.

Also, I know of someone who intercalated a PhD in the states, but that was to do with the research project he did during his intercalated BSc at Leeds.

You've said it's not impossible, but suspending studies to do a PhD is very different as you already have an undergraduate qualification. I've asked around quite a bit about intercalation (as I moved unis myself) and one of my friends from cardiff was interested in applying to standford for an iBSc, but they just won't take people for their bachelors degrees with the limited pre-clinical experience. The advice was (not just from stanford, i might add) to try again after doing the BSc for a post-grad course as at least they'd be able to have a UK recognised qualification as a basis to admission.

Reply 9

Helenia

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Madprof

Dimez: I know Cambridge have an arrangement with MIT (I'm not going to embarrass myself by trying to spell its full name!) where students can go to MIT for three years and do a PhD between preclinical and clinical. This is from the open day in the summer, I can't find any information online about going to the US though. If you want to do this programme, you have to be accepted by Cambridge clinical school first. If you're interested, contact email is

Cambridge also offer an exchange programme with MIT where you go over there for your third year - it's very well-established for NatScis and the like, and medics can now do it, I believe, though I don't know of anyone who has. I'm not sure if you get a BA out of it though, as it doesn't fulfil the normal conditions of residence for a Cambridge degree. :confused:

However, I think that if you do that you can't go to Addenbrooke's, though that may well change. The requisite information will probably be somewhere on the Cambridge website though.

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