Medicine 2023 Entry - Part 3

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Anyone out there with DC applying or reapplying for Medicine 2023, please join a friendly thread for mutual support and useful advice.

@Peachy2005 I think Crown Place is over-subscribed x7 so great that your DD got in early. Funny that Greenbank is my DDs top choice (maybe if they both get offers and my DD gets Crown and your DD gets Greenbank, they could do a swap grin])

@Africa2go & @Monkey2001

So many “ifs” about it all 😀Let’s just hope the DCs get at least 1 offer each and the chips will just have to fall where they may for accommodation. Fingers crossed for all of them 🤞

@Cathpot My DD got Southampton interview as well next week.
It is different style of interview compared to others which she has done (MMI). Southampton is Panel plus group discussion.
Has anyone here heard about UCL interview invite (who have applied offcourse :-))?
For all the unis DD has applied, I think they are going to hear about offers only in March. So atleast a month wait.

@Peachy2005 yes, wishing your DD all the best - and all the DC and parents on here. As we come to the end of interviews, its just surviving that wait now and hoping there is some good news coming soon.

DD has now finished mocks and all four interviews. The waiting to hear the outcomes is a strange time but at least she can just focus on her A Levels now.

DD has 1 more interview on 10 Feb for Manchester. Can’t wait for them all to be finished for DD. Hoping this last one will be straightforward travel as Newcastle and Sheffield definitely weren’t.

We are still waiting for Southampton. I suspect that we will hear this week and the interview will be the same week as the school musical which he is in. He normally plays in the orchestra but this year he decided to audition with it being his last one.

Good luck to everyone having interviews this week. Also good luck to everyone expecting offers.

@MerchSwyddEfrog has he applied to Newcastle? They have a medics musical soc! What is his production? DS1 was in all the school musicals, but DS2 preferred being in the band.

Good luck for your dd at Manchester, @Peachy2005. My dd was there for an interview earlier this month and she actually really enjoyed it. Has she opted for in person or online?

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves She is doing it in person, she only had the Liverpool one online and so far, she much prefers in person, although she was fairly happy with how Liverpool went. I’m looking forward more to this next trip because I know it’ll only be 1 or 2 stops up on the train from Manchester airport so less stress for me!

Yes, dd also prefers in person. She said that the student ambassadors at Manchester were lovely and really put candidates at their ease.

I'm a bit unsure what I think about the hybrid model. I mean, I guess it's great to give candidates a choice re online vs in person, but I wonder how easy it is to run that process fairly. I think the quality of interactions is different in person and online, and it's hard to see how the online candidates wouldn't be at a slight disadvantage. I guess that they've thought it all through, though, and maybe they have strategies in place to mitigate any risks. I just hope it doesn't end up disadvantaged the poorer students who may have to choose online due to financial factors.

TSR reporting Leicester offers!

@Africa2go wow!

Good luck to all who have applied to Leicester.

@Monkey2001 no he hasn’t applied to Newcastle. I know one of his choices has a musical society but I can’t remember which one! Maybe Liverpool? He’s applied to Cardiff, Plymouth, Liverpool and Southampton. The musical is West Side Story and he’s Snowboy!

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves there is a lot of unfairness, I think the random interviewers allocated to you have a bigger impact than on line v F2F if the candidate has experience of on line chat. Some medical schools provided feedback from panel interviews where 2 interviewers have really different marks even when they were in the same interview.

My dd has her final interview at Southampton this week. She has been put on hold for Bristol, not sure what that means?

Some medical schools provided feedback from panel interviews where 2 interviewers have really different marks even when they were in the same interview.

Without knowing the particular medical school's policy on interviwers, it's hard to be certain about this. But some medical schools will use a range of interviewers to represent different viewpoints. A practising doctor is going to see candidates in the light of how they'd view them as future colleagues; an academic is going to see them as future students; a lay person is going to see them from the viewpoint of a future patient; etc. It's very easy to imagine a candidate who is academically very able and who impresses an academic interviewer, but about whom a lay person feels a bit dubious. I've done quite a few interviews where I've given quite low scores (and I'm not a natural hawk) because I didn't think the candidate had a realistic understanding of what the job of a doctor involves, but a lay person has given them high marks because they were good communicators and seemed empathetic. Both of these are valid priorities, and a candidate really needs to demonstrate both.

As long as there's some consistency in how panels or sets of MMI interviewers are made up, the variation between interviews shouldn't be great even if the variation among interviewers is.

Good luck to all DCs with their interviews !
Anybody know when Liverpool will start making offers or do they wait until all interviews are over first ?
Thanks in advance

@Rinkkk brilliant! Congrats to her!

Congratulations to @Rinkkk DD! 🎉She must have done very well to get such an early offer.

Is she Y13 and did she do her interview in December?

Now the painful process of waiting for the other offers to come dribbling out.....

Congratulations @Rinkkk ⭐

Congratulations @Rinkkk . Well done to her.

@Rinkkk
Congrats !