Glasgow

[DScollon]

Maybe I'll kick off in here too. I was at Glasgow from ...well, mostly during the last decade. PBL wasn't invented at the time and nobody had thought about a new Medical School building. We spent (or misspent) two years running in the pouring rain from the anatomy dissecting room to the physiology lecture theatre and back again. It helped wash away some of the smell of formalin.

Things are very much different now. We get 1st years in our department now (curiously, some of them faint). One of the advantages of the old course, perhaps - you first saw a real person bleed in 3rd year. After 2 years in the formalin atmosphere of the dissection room, you were stiff enough to remain upright while fainting.

So what is it like now? What do you think are the good points and bad points of the new course? What else is there to do? How's the social life (in Glasgow I mean, no gory personal details please)? Would you recommend a school student to apply to Glasgow?

Let's hear from a few other medical schools too.

[relliott]

after Derek left glasgow they discovered electricity and....:p

Anyway, Glasgow's new PBL course is very different and is not suited to everyone, but once you acquire the knack of The Glasgow Steps (not a tacky tribute band) and proper researching it is so simple. Yes, I will admit that there is a great deal of feeling a little insecure, but if you work at your best all year then you can't go wrong. it's very rarely you miss anything you were meant to pick up on.

If anyone wan'ts to ask about stuff at glasgow just ask

[DScollon]

...for the record, it wasn't after I left. There was some guy called Watt there at the same time as me.

[elliottsimpson]

I've had the following e-mail from the web-master for the Glasgow University Medical School web-site. She says:-

I was very interested in your web site. I've recently taken over as web editor of the University of Glasgow's Faculty of Medicine web pages. One of my objectives is to make it easier for potential students to find out information about the courses and facilities we offer. I've already got a school students' FAQ page at:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/medicine/mfschoolstudents.html

and would like to know whether the students find the redesigned web site informative and easy to use and if there is any information they feel they would like which isn't available to them. Any opinions/suggestions from your own students would be most welcome. I'd like to make a link to your site from the school students page if this is acceptable by you? I noticed the Contacts and Links buttons don't appear to work - are these areas stil being developed and if students do want to obtain work experience do you have an application procedure?

Best regards,

Janice.


So - take a look and see what you think. Also, let me know if you think we want a link from their site to ours.

Elliott

PS and remember, mind your language - you never know who might be reading this stuff.

[Adam]

The site had a lot of good answers to important questions. I did think that it would be a goo site to visit. But for a lot of us, most of the questions are now irrelevant (entry quiali etc.) but for next years next geners, it would be a useful site.

whether or not we want a link, i dunno if ur average person would understand about spike, cpt jim, herbert and (i hope this is spelt right) jarod(?). We may sound strange. ITS JUST FUNNY. WE ARE NORMAL REALLY!!

Adam

[hugbug3000]

Adam, get it straight, we are NOT NORMAL - normal is boring and we're interesting.

Plus, it's spelt J-A-R-E-D

Would anyone actually benefit from visiting this page?? They might just leave a bit more disturbed than they were when they got here!

[jojo]

I thought the site was really helpful!!Especially the bits about work experience and the facts about doctors!!

Jo xx

[hugbug3000]

The page is great for anyone who has to go to an interview because it basically answers all the interview questions that I've seen, but it's a bit nasty that they won't even consider people who just missed the minimum requirements (like me) no matter what else they've done!!

[elliottsimpson]

I think it's a shame, too. There has to be a better way of selecting the cream of the crop for med. school - like, surfing through the NextGen site and interviewing everyone who's a member!

:lol

[hugbug3000]

I think we should make Elliott the chief interviewer for ALL the medical schools - then at least we'd know we're getting IN!!!

ps. Thanx for the xmas card Elliott!!!

[relliott]

There are some peple I knowwho don't have the minimum requirements, applied - failed, went to do another course, applied again and got in

Maybe persistence counts

[hugbug3000]

What, did they actually go do the second course, then, once they'd got their degree applied to do Medicine post-graduate??

If so, WOW that's many years of studying.

[elliottsimpson]

Sometimes you can do a sideways move (as in knight's move 1 forward and 2 to side or 2 forward and 1 to side - used well in Harry Potter). NextGener VikMcG did 2 years of a science course at St Andrews and then this year moved into 1st year medicine. So it can be done but, yes, it takes time.

See notes on dealing with rejection (should that be necessary) and try that route first, though).

Elliott

[relliott]

one guy in my year is 28 years old, did antoher degree before soming to medicine, and one person is on her 3rd degree now.

It's not essential that you are 17 or 18 when you start and that you are fresh out of school. In some ways doing something else before starting might be better before doing 2 degress all at once (that's what the MBChB is, 2 degrees)

[hugbug3000]

There's still hope for me!!!!!

Someday.......................