Barts and the London A100 offer holders 2017

My friend was at floyer (I stayed overnight for some periods after nights out) he complained and fell out with the residential staff lol, we felt it was an utter shithole in 2015/16.... moldy carpet, noisy radiators, loud doors, condensation and poor cleaning service of communal areas. Having said that we both were brought up in an affluent neighbourhoods in the home counties.

Its like a 1980s prison cell, and also whitechapel's ethnic gangs always seemed to congregate outside on thursday nights and played music on their phones.

I hear from the current first years that nothing has changed.

Dawson is better I feel, and you get a cheap central london life experience. You will soon crave central london or the city (lpool street/aldgate/bank) as the "vibrance" of whitechapel/mile end wears off once the smell of fried chicken and fish market lingers on your clothes.

Oh gosh that's quite negative

i emphasise that the teaching is top notch though (apart from anatomy). If you like curry/kebabs everyday then you will be at home (I didn't).

some more bad points also....
barts is the only university that has professionalism points.
you always have a total of 3 exams every 8 weeks that need to be passed (50%) and loads of pointless PBL writeups which are utterly pointless.
I also thought the rest of QMUL let it Barts reputation down a bit i.e. "I study medicine at QMUL" doesn't have the same effect as "I study medicine at Barts".
the dicks at accommodation didn't even let you see the accommodation at floyer/dawson on the open day; so it is a blind choice (trust me the images on the website are not represenative of floyer, its much worse).

Also a trick I fell for is that the open day may be at Smithfield Campus and not Whitechapel, so Barts will look amazing to you (in central london etc.) But in reality you only spend a total of 18hrs in Smithfield Campus for the whole of first and second years; you may spend a bit longer in third through fifth if you do placements/research; but I stress that grimey whitechapel will be your main home, so go and have a look it at fully (surrounding areas).

Just my opinion but, I should have chose elsewhere in London to study med.

Anyone able to give me any info on how much PBL there is on the parts course? I am looking for only a little PBL with mainly lectures and seminars etc. I am trying to make decisions on firms and insurance choices etc. It's quite hard to decide so any info would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Elliott.

i emphasise that the teaching is top notch though (apart from anatomy). If you like curry/kebabs everyday then you will be at home (I didn't).

some more bad points also....
barts is the only university that has professionalism points.
you always have a total of 3 exams every 8 weeks that need to be passed (50%) and loads of pointless PBL writeups which are utterly pointless.
I also thought the rest of QMUL let it Barts reputation down a bit i.e. "I study medicine at QMUL" doesn't have the same effect as "I study medicine at Barts".
the dicks at accommodation didn't even let you see the accommodation at floyer/dawson on the open day; so it is a blind choice (trust me the images on the website are not represenative of floyer, its much worse).

Also a trick I fell for is that the open day may be at Smithfield Campus and not Whitechapel, so Barts will look amazing to you (in central london etc.) But in reality you only spend a total of 18hrs in Smithfield Campus for the whole of first and second years; you may spend a bit longer in third through fifth if you do placements/research; but I stress that grimey whitechapel will be your main home, so go and have a look it at fully (surrounding areas).

Just my opinion but, I should have chose elsewhere in London to study med.

Any good points about Barts? Jesus

also histology sessions are crap

Remember that's just one students opinion!

I know i know, I was being sarcastic towards the extreme negativity from the person. This is a page for those considering barts and although I understand he/she is trying to give people the negatives as well as the positives it's painting a bad picture of what appears to be a brilliant medical school. I know I'm going to firm it

ok but don't choose floyer, and you're gonna find it a new experience if your are not asian/east european

another of word of advice is to becareful of the spit on the pavements and fried chicken boxes which for some reason there is a lot of

Hopefully someone in here can help me out. I'm confused as to what the style of teaching is mainly based around in Barts. Is it integrated? I heard there was a large weighting on PBL

Hiya! Congratulations to everyone! Just had a question about accomodation, are first years guaranteed accomodation? Are we only allowed to apply to Floyer or Dawson? I'm only asking because I'd quite like to have an en suite

When does the occupational Health form and dbs check get sent out after you have firmed Barts?