Wondering about those with medic children from past threads

[alreadytaken]

Just that really. Mine has not yet gone down with the virus, although colleagues have and one friend is currently self-isolating as a flatmate has it.

[Decorhate]

Oh and regarding accommodation - Dd seemed to think that you would stay in a hospital for a year & do three rotations there, then move to a different hospital for the second year?

[sluj]

Thanks Decorhate, I hadn't realised some had bought the finals forward! Hope everything went well for your DS.
I know nothing about the FP yet so I hope your DD is right and it's the same in every deanery. That would be much easier. On to the next phase

[SuePine]

Glad to see some of you are still hanging around here. DD will be quite a bit nearer home next year, hoping for somewhere on the coast. She sat finals last July, so there is just one final set of O.S.C.E.s to pass this summer. I would be interested to know what others are doing in terms of elective.

[RedHelenB]

My daughter is 4th year dentistry and had just had the shock of her life in discovering that the student loan, non means tested grant and NHS bursary only amount to just over £6000. How can it drop so much from the nearly 10 000 in loan she's getting this year?

[sluj]

If I remember right, the NHS pays the final year tuition and they get £1k grant but this is just deducted from the means tested maintenance grant so just results in less student debt overall. Have I got that right?
5th year maintenance grants are less as they only cover something like Sept to June instead of Sept to September

[RedHelenB]

NHS does pay the tuition but that doesn't really help right now. She gets way less money next year even though she's always got the maximum loan. Come as a bit of a shock as we assumed the NHS money would be similar to the loan she's getting now.