Medical school is the start of a long journey; one that allows you to learn about yourself and others along the way, a personalchallenge that can be very rewarding. It's not just a case of studying for a degree, there's a lot more to it than that,
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So you've completed the tiresome UCAS form, had your interview, put up with the agonising wait for an acceptance letter, and finally you are waiting to start your medical degree. But what has the 5 years
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You may be a pre-medical student about to apply to medical school, a first year medical student who has just started, or a final year medical student like myself!
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So you're now at the stage where you know that medicine is the course for you and you must now begin the fun task of deciding which university you want to go to.
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UK medical schools are university-based institutions that generally provide a programme of preclinical and clinical-based study; depending on the school and
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Every medical school course is divided into two main components, preclinical, which usually lasts either 2 or 3 years, and clinical, which is usually 3 years. Preclinical medicine essentially prepares medical students
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Coming into my first lecture of second year I was pretty smug; like hundreds of others in the country I'd scraped my way through first year of medical school.
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The elective period may be viewed as being the most exciting aspect of medical school, as students are free to travel, within reason, to virtually anywhere in the world.
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Transplantation medicine is the art and science of transferring tissue or an organ from a donor to a recipient patient. Given that the world's first successful organ transplant
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