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Medical Science Pre-Med (1-year) - University of Buckingham

mimanz2020

Hi, If anyone has done the 9 month pre-med course at the Crewe campus of the University of Buckingham, could you please help me out;
1) Is it easy to get into the pre-med course? Are the interviews etc easy to get through?
2) Did all those who get 70% and above and those who applied for their medical school get in?
3) What is your overall opinion of the course? Is it beneficial before going into the medical course?

Reply 1

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Reply 2

Sayioung

Original post by mimanz2020

I also wanna know! Plz answer those questions if anyone knows the answers!

Reply 3

Nupur Vivek

Hi
I have got the offer for Pre med

Reply 4

yellowflower124

Original post by mimanz2020

Yes, I did this course. DO NOT DO IT.
In my year NONE of students got into the buckingham medical school, we started with about 35 students on pre med/year 1 biomed. Not a single one got into the medical school (even though several people got over 70% in the exams) so we were all given the option to do year 2 of biomedical sciences and finish with a degree. 8 people went into year 2 of the Biomed course but only 4 graduated, and from the 4 only 1 person is currently studying Medicine (not at buckingham though). The year above us only had 1 person graduate (but not studying med) from the completed course as everyone else dropped out due to the poor teaching and failing.
The staff are horrible one staff member shouts at students, locks them out of the lecture theatre/classroom if they are late, pubically embarrasses students, and even sqaured up to me before when i was 2 minutes late to class. Her seniors have been made aware of her behaviours and students from every cohort since the course was started has complained about her, but we are told they will talk to her and we should try and keep our head down and not cross paths with her since she marks our coursework and exams. Each year she is allowed to behave like this the worse it becomes, I have heard absolute horror stories about her behaviour towards the year below mine, which are far worse than what she had done to us.

There are a handful of really nice staff but they do not by any means make up for the lecturer who shouts at us since she is the Head of year 2 and teaches the majority of the course.
To add to this there are science lecturers who do not even know what significant figures are, in all honesty they hired the most random people who clearly are not cut out for teaching or lecturing.

Medicine at buckingham is known to be poor quality as well, the previous Dean stepped down from his position because Medicine course graduates were far below the quality expected.

My advice would be to not go to the university at all and apply else where. The majority of lecturers are not up to scratch and many students have to pay for private tutoring on top of uni fees to keep up
The head of second year and lecturer who teaches the majority of the content is very aggressive, squares up to students and sends them out if her lectures if she perceives them as not paying attention (this is completely against university teaching), she is yet to be corrected despite years of complaints against her.
Since leaving this uni and studying at another I have come to realised how ****ed up it is, controlling and overly aggressive and stressful experience (one of my friends has been diagnosed with a chronic illness related to the stress this course put her under). The qualifications produced by the uni are recognised as below standard quality and are quite frankly not worth your money. Study somewhere else.