Traditionally medicine is a 5-year university course that prepares students for a life in the health care profession, be it a career in general practice or in general surgery. The course can usually be
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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
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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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This is probably the biggest hurdle to prospective medical students. Mess this part up and all of the interview preparation in the world may not help, because you may not even reach that stage!
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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
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After my two pre-clinical years at Newcastle, I thought I was well prepared for the clinical years. We had spent many hours on communication skills and I was sure that talking to patients would
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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 opportunity to intercalate came at a time when I was struggling to decide if medicine was the career for me. I found my second year difficult: I'd made it through first year with little trouble,
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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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Transplantation refers to the surgical relocation of tissue or an organ from one site to another. Clinically, with the exception of skin and vessel grafting,
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