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It just seemed as if Graemematt was directing it towards all people, including current students (whether medical or not) who I would have thought would know going to Cambridge is not necessarily going to be any better than going to Manchester or Peninsula.

Nottingham! Pepe le Poosh will back me up on this too: p

First BM Oxford 2003 - 2005 = I spent at least the same time, if not more either in interspersed practicals (there are many - in physiology, pharmacology, pathology, neuroscience, integrative physiology and then in histology/anatomy), seminars, tutorials (& their preparation) & doing doctor-patient stuff.

FHS 2006 = pretty damn far from solid lectures (perhaps 2-3hours pw?) - it was tutorial preparation, dissertation work & research project.

First BM certainly isn't solid lectures, but most of the practicals are basic science rather than clinical, apart from perhaps anatomy. It may not be solid lectures, but it's not particularly clinical, and it is definitely traditional! Not to knock it though - now I'm finishing off clinical anatomy and looking back over the three years, I can see what a great preparation it is for clinical studies.

FHS is divinely free of lectures, but again, unless you pick a clinically-orientated project or extended essay, it's heavily scientific with almost zero clinical relevance. And I say that having picked Infection & Immunity as my option (could really be renamed Molecules & Even More Molecules).

I'm not denying that many applicants/sixth form students thing Oxbridge is the bees knees and most presitigious for virtually every course.

Depends what you want.
My sister is a Cardiff Uni medic and shunned Oxbridge because she wanted to be doing dissection right from the start, rather than doing a course so reliant on prosection.

You know, this got me thinking. I dont know about at other people's schools, but at mine we were actually discouraged from applying to Oxbridge as we were told it was too high an aspiration for us. Well, one girl was recommended for there, but she was a genius. Still, what's the general consensus on oxbridge application encouragement?

Oxbridge? = two universities, two medical schools - not campus branches of Oxbridge Medical School!


(The clue is in the formatting there as to who I suspect still use a fair bit of dissection as standard in their anatomy, but with Helenia off having fun (!) I'm not sure who else currently there frequents this forum...)

Meaning she didn't want to apply to either Oxford or Cambridge I'm sure you knew exactly what I meant - you're just being facetious

Well my point was more that saying "I don't want to go to Oxbridge because I want to do dissection from the start" seems somewhat silly:

Oxford = do 'rely' on prosection (separate discussion as to pros & cons!)
Cambridge = don't! Certainly for my peers it was pretty dissection-tastic & hasn't dramatically changed recently, AFAIK. Although as I said, a student there would obviously know more...

You know, this got me thinking. I dont know about at other people's schools, but at mine we were actually discouraged from applying to Oxbridge as we were told it was too high an aspiration for us. Well, one girl was recommended for there, but she was a genius. Still, what's the general consensus on oxbridge application encouragement?

At my school, you see, being in the west of scotland, we were all told to apply to Glasgow/Strathclyde. The school only organised trips to Glasgow/Strathy open days too...for my st andrews one I had to go independently. Sucks huh!

I LOVE that you're telling an Oxford medic about the course she is almost finished with!!! Classic!!!

Yes I did, but your post came across as harsh and as if you were trying to contradict her - I got the impression you were off to SGUL - that's not a common practice for an oxford medic...