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Medicine 2018 Part 4

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booface · 02/09/2018 21:02

Welcome to the new thread! Can't believe we are on the 4th already

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mumsneedwine · 23/03/2023 17:39

@specialted DD finished on Tuesday so is home for 2 days before heading to Vietnam tomorrow. Once we know they are all passed 🤞🤞🤞🤞 let's arrange to meet at graduation. Finally.

specialted · 23/03/2023 17:45

@mumsneedwine sounds like a plan! Happy travels to dd! Mine off out celebrating then home tomorrow before skiing on sat with us

SomersetS · 23/03/2023 21:43

Really happy that this thread popped up on my phone! So lovely to hear of our DDs & DSs nearing the finish line. After an A Level hiccup (I’m not still bitter that AQA screwed up and missed 15 marks - too late by the time they regraded 🤣🤣😳) resulting in a year of BioMed and then a transfer to Medicine at her first choice Uni (Leicester) DD is now in Year 4 and the end is in sight! Still no firm choices but she’s begun ruling out areas not for her. Not sure where she’d like to end up for F1/2 but I think she still fancies herself as an Island Medic in the wilderness but there have been other surprising areas of enjoyment. Congratulations & good luck to everyone and your young medics. Amazing grit and determination particularly with the Covid curveball. 👋

Needmoresleep · 24/03/2023 09:54

Movingmountains · 08/03/2020 07:53

Mine has just finished clinical
Exams and seems to be enjoying life - he says this is a much harder year than first year as there is just so much to learn. Think extra opportunities have been far and few between this year because of that. He is beginning to think about intercalation - I know your DD does it as part of her course @mumsneedwine but what are others views on this?

Intercalation options are here:

https://www.intercalate.co.uk/

There are some good ones. DD studied biomedical engineering, which was within Imperial's engineering department. They literally joined in with third year engineers, after a couple of pre-sessional courses in maths and electronics. Tough but rewarding and which will apparently stand her in good stead should she want to pursue an academic route. (She did not try for academic F1/F2s partly because there was nothing particular that interested her and she wanted to focus on the medical training rather than try to juggle both, but did work as a research assistant for her elective and the option remains for her to take a PhD should she want.) A friend's daughter similarly studied tropical medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and used it as a springboard for a really interesting career.

That said one friend did emergency medicine from which the main learning was that they did NOT want to work in A&E. A useful lesson perhaps.

Intercalation is expensive and does not offer immediate short term advantage, though DD is told that hers will look good on her CV at later stages in her career. (And a poor radiologist regretted asking his placement students if they knew how a scanner worked only to have DD go into a deep dive about algorithms.) Worth doing if you are fairly sure which direction you would like to go in.

DD did pretty well on her SJT, despite being dyslexic, so would have had a good choice, but by then she had decided to side step the process by picking somewhere completely different. She might well return to London later in her career, but short term she is looking forward to days off in glorious countryside, and a good pick of placements. (Going somewhere less popular with relatively high points gives you more priority, though each area does it differently.)

I understand that the F1/F2 process changes again next year. SJT is not kind to students who have English as a second language or who do not speak English at home.

The UK database of intercalated courses for medical students

https://www.intercalate.co.uk

booface · 24/03/2023 10:07

Oh wow I can’t believe you are out the other side. Congratulations all round. Do keep up posted with how the F1s and 2s go. Where did yours do their electives? My DS has 6 year to go. Goodness it’s a long haul! But all good I think.

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adrinkofwater · 24/03/2023 14:46

Nice to hear that people seem happy with their F1 deaneries. DD is intercalating this year (after 4th year), so here non-intercalating friends are off on their electives atm. She has started thinking about hers too!

@Movingmountains DD is intercalating in population medicine. I think that she is finding some of it interesting, but the overall message I'm getting is that she misses the patients and doesn't want to go into research!

specialted · 24/03/2023 18:43

@SomersetS lovely to hear from you, and so glad DD is enjoying Leicester. I remember v clearly still results day five years ago in this thread and the highs and lows of everyone.
My good friends dd is currently applying for medicine, it sounds even more brutal than it was five years ago!
My dd has been ranking f1 jobs this afternoon. Quite a lengthy process with 160 to rank! Tbh she's fairly chilled about them all, she just wants a good general experience.

mumsneedwine · 17/04/2023 18:31

So our girls have done it ! After 5 years, 2 degrees and 1 pandemic they today heard that they had passed their finals. Good luck to everyone still to go. Few weeks of F1 shadowing and then some travelling before graduation (huge glasses of champagne going to be had !) and then starting work. DD v lucky and got first choice Deanery and jobs, but think she'd have been happy with anywhere.

specialted · 17/04/2023 19:55

@mumsneedwine bursting with pride at our girls !!! So proud! They have made it with a few bumps along the way. Dd out tonight celebrating, so sweet that on their first day of their final placement the consultant asked why they weren't in the pub and sent them on their way! Having a glass or two of champagne to celebrate 🎉 Flowers

Katisha · 17/04/2023 20:15

@specialted @mumsneedwine Hello! DS also same Nottingham intake and massively relieved to get his result today as he's doing his elective abroad at the moment and resits would have been awkward! Hopefully he's celebrating in a beach bar with new friends today!

specialted · 17/04/2023 20:16

@Katisha fantastic news!!

booface · 17/04/2023 20:36

So lovely to hear about your grads! Congratulations all of you. Lovely news on our thread.

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mumsneedwine · 17/04/2023 21:40

Oooh @Katisha we can all meet up at graduation.

Think anyone out in Nottingham tonight needs to hide as medics are out celebrating. Loved the consultants telling them to go to the pub rather than the wards 😊

specialted · 17/04/2023 22:10

Yes @Katisha a mumsnet meet up!
That would be amazing!

Katisha · 17/04/2023 22:25

@specialted @mumsneedwine You're on! How has it been 5 years? Just reading the start of the thread...it feels simultaneously like an eternity and a flash

mumsneedwine · 17/04/2023 22:34

@Katisha it's been a journey ! Wonder if our kids know each other.

adrinkofwater · 18/04/2023 22:40

Huge congratulations to the Nottingham people who have passed and found out where they'll be for F1! DD is intercalating, so another year to go!

trader21c · 19/04/2023 06:09

Lovely to hear how everyone’s DD DS doing. My DD has one final placement in Cardiff (she did her elective at Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam). She then is coming back to London for F1 (St George’s) and F2 (Epsom/St Helier). So it’s all change … I am sure F1/F2 will be really tough (her bf is already nearly through F1) but 🤞it’s hardly been an easy ride for them so far has it

SomersetS · 19/04/2023 11:00

See you here next year @adrinkofwater !
one year left for my DD too

booface · 19/04/2023 20:31

Your meet up sounds so fun. Huge congratulations to all of your new doctors. Like @adrinkofwater my son intercalated so has yet another year to go!

@trader21c the elective in Vietnam sounds amazing. How did your DCs arrange their electives?

Have fun at your meet up!

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trader21c · 19/04/2023 20:44

@booface I think she found the hospital online and contacted them herself. Her friends from her house all went together to Sri Lanka

adrinkofwater · 19/04/2023 21:03

@trader21c your DDs elective sounds great! My DD is also at Cardiff so they may have known each other!

trader21c · 20/04/2023 06:40

@adrinkofwater my DD intercalated too so has been at Cardiff 6 years!

specialted · 13/07/2023 14:38

@mumsneedwine @Katisha so it's graduation day next wed! Hope we can meet up! Can't believe they have truly finished uni. Dd had a good trip to Indonesia and Philippines , but was happy to get back to civilisation and bf I think! She moves her stuff out of uni house next week and into rental flat in Sheffield . She's actually quite exited to start fy1 job!

mumsneedwine · 13/07/2023 15:38

@specialted DD still in Zealand - lands on Monday so cutting it fine. I'll send a message when there and suggest a spot to meet - hopefully with champagne. Although girls can probably find each other for us.
DD been travelling for 7 weeks with 2 weeks in Vietnam after finals so hasn't really thought about starting work too much. But think she's excited. Moving to her new place on Saturday after graduation, but still needs to finish emptying Notts.
Not sure that pathetic pay rise is going to stop the strikes though.

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