Medical School Scotland

[bluebkke]

Has anyone researched the various medical schools in Scotland and pinpointed the differences between them? I read that medical schools usually have a dominant teaching style but struggling to find any detailed information on each university's websites that make it clear what their style is. I am also trying to work out why a student would choose St Andrews if you have to move to one of the others after three years anyway. Totally appreciate that I'm sure many students end up going to whichever they get into, but would also like my DC to be better informed before applying. Can anyone advise where to look for more detailed information? Thanks!

You might be better to post this in the Higher Education forum on Mumsnet ?

There is usually a thread for parents of med school applicants on higher education. The student room forum can be helpful. My daughter is in 1st year at Glasgow; they seem to do systems, so they might do bones & muscle, they’ll do the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and clinical problems. They have recorded and live lectures (all online) and a problem based learning group, which is in person. This term she also has labs in person.
We didn’t like St Andrew’s because we already live in a small Scottish town and she wanted somewhere new. And the moving after 3rd year is also a pain.

@emummy thank you . . . I will have a look. I was also looking unsuccessfully to see how many applicants end up with a choice about where they are going to go . . . do you know if that kind of data is published anywhere?

From what I have been able to work out so far . . . Dundee and Glasgow seem fairly similar except Glasgow is a lot bigger. Aberdeen has the unique feature of having a 'rural' placement for at least a term or up to a year. Edinburgh is unique because the intercalated year is not optional. St Andrews you do a BSc for three years and then have to do three years somewhere else . . . looks like no hospital experience while in St Andrews.

Will look in the other forums as suggested. Thank you!

I don’t know if that sort of data exists; on student room Ganfyd might know - think that’s how you spell the name, you’ll probably see their posts, they do a lot of stats and advice postings.
You can get info about admissions to some of the medical schools about number of interviews, UCAT scores that got interviewed, how many offers etc. I used to search for med school admission stats for each uni, you get stuff like this :
www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_731839_smxx.pdf

Gosh, I hadn’t realised that there was such a gender difference in applicants and places!

@WoodstockJ

Gosh, I hadn’t realised that there was such a gender difference in applicants and places!

I don’t think they record the gender of applicants, only sex. Glasgow requires AAAAA at CfE Higher and a high score at UCAT so that will rule out a lot of male applicants.

There has over the years been an increase in the number of female applicants to medical schools, not sure of the reasons. I also hadn’t realised the gap was so big @WoodstockJ