Saving someone’s life is perhaps one of the most remarkable feelings in the world. Even so, not so many of us have the chance to experience this. It takes passion, a strong personality and years of study to be able to work in the medical field.
Pursuing a Medical degree is not only challenging and demanding but also competitive. Medical degrees are shaped for people who show high motivation and commitment as well as interest for sciences.
Throughout a Medicine degree, candidates are equipped with a wide range of competences, from practical abilities required for specialized hands-on tasks to communication skills needed to interact with the patients. Thus, any medical students will be able to take a simple blood sample as well as perform a complex surgical procedure.
Undoubtedly, medicine is one of the most vital fields of work – therefore there will always be a high demand of workforce needed. The employment rate for a medical graduate student is of 90%.
Due to its diverse branches, graduates from a Medical course have a variety of career choices, according to their expertise. Nursing, radiology, anaesthetics are just some of the many specialities offered in this field. Regardless of the speciality, the most important aspect needed to be taken into consideration is that medical professionals are well-respected and well-paid all over the world.
Additionally, graduates possess a series of transferable skills, such as logical reasoning, critical appraisal, listening, written and oral communication and many others. These assets are sought and highly valuable in most fields of work.
Medical courses are usually a six-year commitment, but it can vary according to the university. Most of the modern universities integrate clinical education with basic sciences from the beginning of the academic curriculum, while traditional institutions divide them into preclinical and clinical education.
Most schools understand the importance of practical knowledge, especially in this field, therefore they encourage the students to observe professional healthcare practitioners. Another way to gain practical experience is to go to different clinics and receive specialised training, followed by actual practical work.
No matter the practices of the university, always keep in mind that medical courses are structured differently in every country. Therefore, medical qualifications gained in one country are not necessarily recognised in another country.
I strongly believe this university results in good doctors. But that is not a result of the organisation of the course. Lecturers persistently do not turn up. A lot of the time lecturers appear to not be interested in the subject they are teaching. I’m going into third year, starting in one weeks time, yet still have not received a timetable. The medical school are unreceptive to placement changes. Only changing them under ‘extreme’ circumstances. Giving allocations with no due respect to where you live. e.g travelling 2 /3 hours to placement. Ignoring the poor organisation, the flow of modules is good. However most learning will be done on your own. The PBL style of teaching is good, however leaves room for improvement with the case studies provided.
View moreI study medicine and it’s very well supported and guided. The only thing I would say is that the terms are very long! Medicine is very hard to get into but when you’re in all the people want you to pass!
View moreIt’s (I think) quite a small uni which I love because you always bump into people you know..obviously there’s still thousands of people you don’t know so it’s not weird. There is an amazing community feel with EVERYONE going to the campus club on Saturday..there are clubs in town that everyone goes to in the week. The societies are great and the nightlife is more about the people…I come from a big city and would say I was underwhelmed by the nights out at first but have now found people that make every night out hilarious and nuts so now go out about 5x a week. Would say in general everyone’s v friendly. Campus gym is quite a peak, quite small and always busy. The campus is SO UGLY BUT SO BEAUTIFUL – the buildings are so ugly and concrete but the lake and the grounds are honestly amazing and wonderful to spend time there during the summer
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