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Aberdeen for Medicine - The Student Room
Aberdeen for Medicine
Hey everyone
What is Aberdeen like for Medicine.
I have looked over their website and they look pretty good.
Could any students of med at Aberdeen help me out here?
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Well it's one of the top med schools in the country so it must be pretty good.
Quite a few regular users of the Aberdeen forum do medicine so I'll Quote: them, they'll be able to help.
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Originally Posted by Becca-Sarah ...
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Originally Posted by Chiko 1001 ...
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : Hey everyone
What is Aberdeen like for Medicine.
I have looked over their website and they look pretty good.
Could any students of med at Aberdeen help me out here?
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : Well it's one of the top med schools in the country so it must be pretty good.
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : :rofl:
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : Is it not?
My bad.
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Intense, but then again medicine always is regardless of where you go.
We have around a 35-40 hour week including private study.
There's a lot of emphasis on communication skills with the new course that just started, and it's very much systems based and integrated.
In your first year you start of with 6 weeks of cripplingly unmedical biochemistry, then you get stuck into principles of disease and start on systems.
In your first year the only anatomy you will actually do is that which you cover as part of your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Any specific questions just Quote: me...
:)
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : Of course it is.
There are thirty two top medical schools in this country and Aber is definitely one of them.
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Originally Posted by Chiko 1001 Intense, but then again medicine always is regardless of where you go.
We have around a 35-40 hour week including private study.
There's a lot of emphasis on communication skills with the new course that just started, and it's very much systems based and integrated.
In your first year you start of with 6 weeks of cripplingly unmedical biochemistry, then you get stuck into principles of disease and start on systems.
In your first year the only anatomy you will actually do is that which you cover as part of your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Any specific questions just Quote: me...
:)
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : 1001 Intense, but then again medicine always is regardless of where you go.
We have around a 35-40 hour week including private study.
There's a lot of emphasis on communication skills with the new course that just started, and it's very much systems based and integrated.
In your first year you start of with 6 weeks of cripplingly unmedical biochemistry, then you get stuck into principles of disease and start on systems.
In your first year the only anatomy you will actually do is that which you cover as part of your cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Any specific questions just Quote: me...
:)
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : Thank you very much for the help, it was much appreciated!
The course sounds really fantastic - i wasn't thinking about applying until recently, partially because i didnt like the idea of studying in Scotland :), but the course does sound really good :)
Do you think you could tell me what you think are the best/worst things about the course?
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Originally Posted by Keeno89 Eh?
How is the biochemistry unmedical?
It was hardly the most fun thing ever but parts of it are quite fundamental to have a basic understanding of at least.
Their is NO way I did 40 hours of studying a week aside from revising for exams.
Tbh I did virtually none outside of lectures and anatomy lessons.
If you concentrate in class makes things much easier!
I think people overestimate how 'intense' it is.
You will still have plenty of free time.
Haven't you guys only had 5 days of proper lectures?
Seriously whoever told you that is going way over the odds.
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Re: Aberdeen for Medicine
Quote: : 1001 Best is the Suttie centre for sure- aside from the horrible level of green and the total lack of phone reception the facilities are amazing.
The worst is how bloody dull this biochem is, but I hated chemistry at school so I hardly expect anything to change just because I'm at uni!
Once the first term is over you get a good mix of stuff going on, community projects, clinical skills and science of disease, so if you don't like one part you can escape into another.
It's unmedical because it's basically advanced chem again.
As stated before, I despised pure chemistry anyway...
I just can't make my brain look at redox reactions and think medicine.
Sorry.
The 40 hours is realistic if you actually write up all the stuff we're doing in lectures just now.
Half our year are keeping up and being knackered, the other half are doing nothing at all- but even the ones who haven't worked yet are starting to feel swamped and kick things up a gear.
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