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part time MSc?

is it possible to do a part time MSc after intercalating? I finish my iBSc this year and return to Y4 MBBS and was wondering if I could do this along MBBS.

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is it possible to do a part time MSc after intercalating? I finish my iBSc this year and return to Y4 MBBS and was wondering if I could do this along MBBS.

Thanks!

I’m sure somebody has done this before, but it’s an almost impossible amount of work to do and one degree will end up suffering (probably the MBBS). A masters level qualification needs deliberate time to read, think about stuff, etc. and isn’t just rote learning like 99% of medicine. You’ll end up doing all the masters stuff and then not leaving enough time for rote medicine stuff. Loads of people do part time masters after graduation, just wait until then.
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I see, I was looking into this course as I’m interested in medical education: https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=246
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I see, I was looking into this course as I’m interested in medical education: https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=246

I don't think you'd meet the entry requirements. You either need a clinical qualification such as MBChB, OR, BSc plus sufficient clinical experience. You'd also need to be doing teaching day to day. I think anyway that you'd get a lot more out of this if you were a doctor in a clinical environment. A lot of doctors do these sorts of qualifications alongside a dedicated teaching fellow year (OOPE / year out) - and they're often funded as part of clinical teaching fellow jobs.

I agree with the comments above - MSc work is not like MBChB work, and something would end up suffering. You don't want to end up failing MBChB / repeating things cos you were trying to get an MSc done.

There's no rush. Get your MBChBB done first.

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