Cambridge Medicine Students and Applicants

I just got rejected by clare for medicine (i am very disappointed). I was just wandering after I have finished my medical degree at edinburgh (Unconditional offer ), what are the possibilities at cambridge?

Original college : Downing
Pooled college: Girton
When did you receive the news about being pooled? : Saturday 3rd
Re-interviewd? : Saturday 10th
Offer / Rejection : ???
Local / International : Brummie

That's so great!
Good luck to you!

What for, exactly? If you want to work in Addenbrooke's (the hospital in Cambridge), you can apply there like any other graduate. If you want to come to Cambridge University itself for a Masters/PhD post-qualification, you can also apply for that.

to anyone at cambridge already (or anyone who knows about this), how competitive is the cambridge PhD program for med students? cos i kinda want to do one, but i m not sure in a couple of years, i ll be good enough to get selected

Is masters/PhD life like undergraduate life? Is there still the same collegiate element? It was just such an amazing place, but i love edinburgh too, so im not prepared to give up a place at edinburgh for a likely rejection next year!

Do you mean the MBPhD programme? I think about 7 or 8 people do it each year. Not sure how many apply, but you would probably need at least one first in your first two years, and probably a "proper" NST part II.

Past Part 1Bers.........

What is a good percentage to be aiming for in the negatively marked MCQ papers? I asssume that the 80%s and 90%s from 1a become unattainable this year? the MODA/BOD stuff is insanely specific!

Errrr.... depends what you mean by good! A pass is around 50%... however 80% is not completely unattainable, I'm sure people from my college got that in BOD mocks, and I know one person who definitely did get 80% in the final BOD exam. I think I got 70%+ in both BOD and MoDA in the final MCQs. I don't, however, know the mark distribution for the rest of the year, and I seem to come from a college with people who are pretty good at MCQs, even negatively marked ones, and I don't know how we compare to everyone else.

Basically, IMHO, 90% is pretty difficult, because to get that you pretty much have to answer 100% of the questions and get hardly any wrong. However, it is important to remember that your maximum mark is limited by how many questions you answer - if you only answer 90% you are only ever going to get 90%. One of my friends did an experiment where he compared his results on papers where he'd answered everything to those where he'd answered cautiously and got higher marks on the former. (you probably didn't want all this advice but never mind...)

And yes, it is insanely specific but you do get better at answering the insanely specific stuff with practice.

woo congrats!!

Ive been doing a few practice papers and getting 75%-80% but this is with a small part of the overall course (mich term only) and so I assumed that come the end of the year it would be hard, really hard, to get that sort of mark. Unless ofcourse, there is a lot of time to revise at the end. I see on my timetable that the main three courses stop by the 6th-7th week of Lent. Does that mean that with just options and some HR - there is a lot of time to revise?

When are the exams generally going to be - last week of many? Is there anything apart from options actually taught during Easter?

Thanks for your reply, sorry if im asking too many questions!