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How hard is medical school???
Hello,
I'm currently an As student and im thinking that medicine is the way i want to go in life. I'm predicted to get AAAB in my As studies. I'm currently taking biology and chemistry and finding them relatively easy.
I would like to know from any medical students how hard is medical school and how hard is it compared to A levels?. Plus how much home work you get?
At gcse i got 4 A*, 6 A's,B and C (not great). And im predicted AAAB in As levels. I'm applying to do work experience in a nursing home and I'm doing work experience in a hospital and a 3 day medical course/work expierence. I know that science and medicine is what i want to do but can anyone give me any advice on what more I can do and what i can do to make me stand out. Also I'm taking critical thinking this year as fast track extension award.
Thanks alot
Tom
I'm currently an As student and im thinking that medicine is the way i want to go in life. I'm predicted to get AAAB in my As studies. I'm currently taking biology and chemistry and finding them relatively easy.
I would like to know from any medical students how hard is medical school and how hard is it compared to A levels?. Plus how much home work you get?
At gcse i got 4 A*, 6 A's,B and C (not great). And im predicted AAAB in As levels. I'm applying to do work experience in a nursing home and I'm doing work experience in a hospital and a 3 day medical course/work expierence. I know that science and medicine is what i want to do but can anyone give me any advice on what more I can do and what i can do to make me stand out. Also I'm taking critical thinking this year as fast track extension award.
Thanks alot
Tom
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tiny_tom
Hello,
I'm currently an As student and im thinking that medicine is the way i want to go in life. I'm predicted to get AAAB in my As studies. I'm currently taking biology and chemistry and finding them relatively easy.
I would like to know from any medical students how hard is medical school and how hard is it compared to A levels?. Plus how much home work you get?
At gcse i got 4 A*, 6 A's,B and C (not great). And im predicted AAAB in As levels. I'm applying to do work experience in a nursing home and I'm doing work experience in a hospital and a 3 day medical course/work expierence. I know that science and medicine is what i want to do but can anyone give me any advice on what more I can do and what i can do to make me stand out. Also I'm taking critical thinking this year as fast track extension award.
Thanks alot
Tom
I'm currently an As student and im thinking that medicine is the way i want to go in life. I'm predicted to get AAAB in my As studies. I'm currently taking biology and chemistry and finding them relatively easy.
I would like to know from any medical students how hard is medical school and how hard is it compared to A levels?. Plus how much home work you get?
At gcse i got 4 A*, 6 A's,B and C (not great). And im predicted AAAB in As levels. I'm applying to do work experience in a nursing home and I'm doing work experience in a hospital and a 3 day medical course/work expierence. I know that science and medicine is what i want to do but can anyone give me any advice on what more I can do and what i can do to make me stand out. Also I'm taking critical thinking this year as fast track extension award.
Thanks alot
Tom
Do some voluntary work in an old folks home or at a hospital.
You may find this useful: Med Students Timetable
sayed_samed
Yes, as rahmed says long term voluntary work so 2-3 hours a week or more if you can. Extra curriulas so join DoE or a society or sport or the navy!
It's another level.
Personally, compared to my first degree, I'm finding medicine a bit more relaxed. Then again the educational goal posts have been moved since I graduated the first time round, and things like the Internet make degrees much easier than they were as you have access to more information.
Plus Fluffy also has the experience of an undergrad and PhD
Medschool is certainly not easy - a big step up from A levels. I think 1st year is difficult as you have to adjust to a completely different way of learning, and are also living away from home, making new friends etc etc.
Conceptually though, nothing is massively complicated - It's just a volume thing. (Although I get my results of finals tomorrow, and if I've failed, it's obviously because medicine is horrendously difficult ;-) )
Medschool is certainly not easy - a big step up from A levels. I think 1st year is difficult as you have to adjust to a completely different way of learning, and are also living away from home, making new friends etc etc.
Conceptually though, nothing is massively complicated - It's just a volume thing. (Although I get my results of finals tomorrow, and if I've failed, it's obviously because medicine is horrendously difficult ;-) )
joyabbott
Plus Fluffy also has the experience of an undergrad and PhD
Medschool is certainly not easy - a big step up from A levels. I think 1st year is difficult as you have to adjust to a completely different way of learning, and are also living away from home, making new friends etc etc.
Conceptually though, nothing is massively complicated - It's just a volume thing. (Although I get my results of finals tomorrow, and if I've failed, it's obviously because medicine is horrendously difficult ;-) )
Medschool is certainly not easy - a big step up from A levels. I think 1st year is difficult as you have to adjust to a completely different way of learning, and are also living away from home, making new friends etc etc.
Conceptually though, nothing is massively complicated - It's just a volume thing. (Although I get my results of finals tomorrow, and if I've failed, it's obviously because medicine is horrendously difficult ;-) )
Plus i've yet to do clinicals - I could be in for a very nasty shock! The idea of clinicals is terrifying me!
1st year at bristol is very hard, so intense! 25 hours a week, i now have 14 units of exams in 3 weeks and dont know where to start! be prepared to work hard, suppose it varies where u go though
- Harder than a levels, but, in some ways easier as you have 1) Friends in halls = go out and party whenever, go speak to someone whenever etc 2) Intense so time does fly.. and 3) If you wanna do med and really know what its like, then you will enjoy
Durham is around 30 hours contact a week (varies week to week, also lecturer to lecturer - eg a 9 - 12 session may end up 9 - 9:30). Final opinion its hard work but its great
Durham is around 30 hours contact a week (varies week to week, also lecturer to lecturer - eg a 9 - 12 session may end up 9 - 9:30). Final opinion its hard work but its great
if you really are tiny, tiny tom then i fear your biggest problemo mite be storin the 'uge amounts of piles of paperwork that you keep around your room as a medic (i know this cos i am v. v. smal too
).
One false step and it'd be over for ya in a flurry of anatomy notes.
Tread carefully macca.
).One false step and it'd be over for ya in a flurry of anatomy notes.
Tread carefully macca.tiny_tom
a 3 day medical course/work expierence
No offence mate but i hope you're not talking about Medlink? Becuase it certainly isn't work experience.
i have 7 exams this week......14 units of work.....god help me
Thanks everyone that is really helpfull.
to FruitcakeLiz
No the 3 days course isnt medlink. Its and actual work experience were you shadow doctors throughout the whole hospital for 3/4 of the time and the rest you get taught abit about basic diagnostic an stuff like that by seinor doctors.
to gizmo
Yes unfortunatly i am tiny tom. im not dead small but small for a lad
deffinatly. Thanks for the advice i will watch out for those pesky piles of work!!
to FruitcakeLiz
No the 3 days course isnt medlink. Its and actual work experience were you shadow doctors throughout the whole hospital for 3/4 of the time and the rest you get taught abit about basic diagnostic an stuff like that by seinor doctors.
to gizmo
Yes unfortunatly i am tiny tom. im not dead small but small for a lad
deffinatly. Thanks for the advice i will watch out for those pesky piles of work!!
The stuff isn't that hard (1st year) but the amount you have to learn, and the way you have to learn it is completely different to school/college/6th form. Came as a shock to me and I kind of degenerated into a very lazy mode am paying for it now. You can get away with that at A-levels but not in medschool. I don't think A-levels really prepare you for med school (maybe uni in general?) or is a great indicator of how well you'll do.
tiny_tom
I'm doing work experience in a hospital and a 3 day medical course/work expierence.
If that's the one at the DRI then it's very good. It was probably the single biggest thing that convinced me I wanted to do Medicine and I found to be the single most valuable piece of work experience I did. Perhaps I just got the luck of the draw on it (everyone got assigned to different departments), but I got to see what the nursing was like (and that I didn't want to do it
), what a clinic was like and then the difference between say a hand surgeon (loads of shortish operations) and someone doing like hips and knees (less operations, but all longer).The work is a big step up from A-level. Its not really that hard to get to grips with, but there's so much of it!!
Personally I found A Levels very easy, so modular, so little to learn each time. It was great. Also my teachers were great and my classes small.
When you get to uni you could well be taught in lectures of 250 people and I certainly got the feeling that I shouldnt ask too many questions incase they were stupid or I could easily work them out from a book, so I didnt.
Its constant work, but if its in an area you enjoy than its great! personally I love all my modules here, even those im not so keen on its usually because theyres so much of it or its a bit harder to get to grips with (ive got a mental block on action potentials, still!) rather than because its boring.
I'm looking forward to the clinical years, they should be great.
Go for it!
Personally I found A Levels very easy, so modular, so little to learn each time. It was great. Also my teachers were great and my classes small.
When you get to uni you could well be taught in lectures of 250 people and I certainly got the feeling that I shouldnt ask too many questions incase they were stupid or I could easily work them out from a book, so I didnt.
Its constant work, but if its in an area you enjoy than its great! personally I love all my modules here, even those im not so keen on its usually because theyres so much of it or its a bit harder to get to grips with (ive got a mental block on action potentials, still!) rather than because its boring.
I'm looking forward to the clinical years, they should be great.
Go for it!
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