Kings or UEA?

Why is it 6 years at Kings? How have you been offered 5 year at UEA but foundation at kings?

Any particular reason? IMO yes kings does have more prestige however, I know a few people who don't like it as much as they thought they would.

Yes it uses some great hospitals but I would be more concerned where I was doing my f1! Doing f1 at tommys and kings would be even better than learning there.

Uea is a lovely campus and a year shorter. Up to you though if you hate pbl!


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In that case I would go for uea, purely to be done sooner. If you're happy to do the extra year then go for kings! Yes it probably is more prestigious but how good a doctor you become is down to you!


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UEA

Dr Watson in Sherlock went to KCL to study medicine if that makes it any cooler


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Haha what's the face for? Sounds bias....if you could please explain why UEA, I'd be happy to hear!

Mainly for the reasons you've said. Early (and decent/proper) patient contact, lovely area, friendly hospitals. I like the course structure and the fact that we don't spend the first two years just doing science.

But at the end of the day, it's your decision. You've got to decide what you want in your ideal medicine course and work out which uni fits better. Prestige is irrelevant when it comes to medicine - a doctor is a doctor, no matter where they did their degree

Thank you very much! I didn't go to the offer day so I couldn't ask questions

If you don't mind?

1) I have no experience of PBL....is it easy to adapt to it ? Do I really have to depend on team mates for knowledge?

2) how many people drop out/fail exams? Are they really hard?

3) best accommodation for medical students ?

4) there are loads of med societies like GP soc, cardiology soc? Are they any good and is it worthwhile joining every med related soc?

5) As a mecic, how many free time do we have as first year? Can we join loads of clubs and socs?

Sorry for the questions, hopefully you can answer it

1) Yeah I adapted to it pretty quickly and don't think it's as hard as people who have no experience of PBL make it out to be. UEA also has supplementary lectures/seminars every week that cover most of the learning outcomes and give you an idea of depth needed, so you're not totally left to your own devices. No you're not reliant on other people at all. It's your responsibility to ensure that you cover all the topics you need to - you don't need anybody else to be able to do that - there's nothing stopping you from picking up a textbook and doing your own reading

2) I don't really know - we started off in year one as about 170, we're now at 150 although we about 10 or so people from the year above that have resat one of the years at some point, so we maybe lost about 30? But then a lot of them are now in the year below. Most people pass without any problems, and you get a chance to resit the exam, and then UEA are fairly lenient when it comes to letting people resit the year if need be, but like I said, most sail through with no problems.

3) Whatever accommodation you can afford. You're guaranteed to be placed in halls with at least one other medic, and there is no "best accommodation" for medics, so just go with what you like and what's in your price range

4) Yep loads. I haven't joined any of them, some people joined all of them. I'd recommend you only join the ones you're interested in and would go to events they put on, otherwise there's not much point, but it's up to you

5) A fair amount of free time - nothing stopping you from joining uni socs and clubs, but it might be harder to commit to them in later years (although the same can be said for any med school in this regard!)

KCL has more prestige, but I'm pretty sure in this country a medical degree is a medical degree...so why waste an extra year?

UEA

One more thing!

Deciles? How hard is it to get to the top decile? I'm thinking way ahead because of foundation posts.

Dr Watson in Sherlock went to KCL to study medicine if that makes it any cooler


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