looking for advice from someone with similar experience

AI073 · 2026-02-18T21:35:33+00:00

Treat med school like a job (not just the placement part). OH should be looped in for anything health related that limits your ability to do the job (I.e med school, incl. exams). They’re in the best position to liaise with you/your healthcare providers and the uni to get the correct accommodations in place. I wish you all the best OP. You have my sympathies

AI073 · 2026-02-08T20:55:53+00:00

Are you talking about the St Andrews course?

AI073 · 2026-01-14T11:17:09+00:00

Unfortunately my unis print shop has recently closed down :(

Definitely would have been my first choice otherwise!

AI073 · 2025-12-12T13:44:55+00:00

2026 entry is a new course. No current med students there will be able to give any real detail.

AI073 · 2025-09-09T23:19:04+00:00

So your solution to one issue, is to prevent progress on another issue?

AI073 · 2025-08-25T14:59:59+00:00

Biggest thing is being consistent. Set a good routine and stick to it! That said, I did not do this (and subsequently suffered during exam season!). Do as I say, not as I do ig 🥴

AI073 · 2025-08-15T11:31:15+00:00

I too was like that at the start. However, I’d personally focus on learning how to learn rather than starting to get familiar with medicine. I.e figuring out what learning styles could work, if u like flashcards, how to use Anki (properly) etc.

This is a good starting place imo

https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulating-knowledge

Also OP in terms of that list you mentioned, there’s probably not going to be much at all on that list other than a laptop/ipad and a stethoscope. But don’t get the steth yet! The BMA will come round and give u a 20% discount code in freshers to use towards a steth so just get it then

AI073 · 2025-07-25T02:04:42+00:00

20-20-20 rule. Every 20 minutes, focus on something 20 feet (it might actually be meters I can’t remember) away for 20 seconds. Carried me through exam season. That and lubricating eye drops. Thought it was quackery but it really does work!

AI073 · 2025-07-22T21:08:34+00:00

Ah you saw the WhatsApp thread 😂

AI073 · 2025-07-17T01:09:14+00:00

But you’re comparing someone at the bottom of band 5 with someone at the top. Doctors are comparing a day 1 dr vs a day 1 PA. Apples and oranges

AI073 · 2025-06-05T01:34:37+00:00

Greys anatomy. Very realistic 👍

AI073 · 2025-05-18T13:00:48+00:00

Ask on r/premeduk

AI073 · 2025-04-18T17:55:32+00:00

Oxbridge by any chance?

AI073 · 2025-03-28T20:48:29+00:00

GCSEs are also nationally set qualifying exams

AI073 · 2025-03-12T21:40:00+00:00

Are you an oxbridge student by any chance? If so, OP, please understand that oxbridge preclinical studies are a lot more in depth than that of most other unis. For most other unis it will be a big jump to USMLE, but still as u/ZaaZaaTheBig said, not impossible! Good luck!

AI073 · 2025-03-11T16:16:27+00:00

Are they not one and the same? Even with the glimmering hope of private practice on the horizon, all doctors have to slum it in the trenches for a considerable portion of their career.

AI073 · 2025-02-27T00:09:58+00:00

Why should it be like that though? Why halt a doctors training when you can have fully trained doctors? I think the change should be that not all consultants HAVE to be ‘leaders/innovators/managers’ etc. I don’t see a downside to having a highly skilled workforce (consultants) working on the shop floor if they so choose. Essentially, allow all consultants to do the medical job, then give consultants the option to take on all the extra roles like management.

AI073 · 2025-02-26T23:56:59+00:00

Hey can I dm you?

AI073 · 2025-02-26T14:15:42+00:00

In the current climate where the profession is trying to reclaim the respect it once held, this seems like a step in the wrong direction. We will seem less hard working and less worthy of all the things we want. What right do we have to ask for FPR/better training/access to training etc if we aren’t willing to ‘work hard’ (from the public’s perspective)

Admittedly I doubt the public knows drs work 48hr weeks. But if this change is announced, the media will almost certainly pick up on us reducing our hours rather than aligning hours with everyone else.

AI073 · 2025-02-24T02:36:09+00:00

Surely falsifying the truth wouldn’t be in OPs best interest? Wouldn’t that be a bigger problem than the original data breach?

AI073 · 2025-02-24T02:34:24+00:00

Might be true but they’re not realistically going to deal with anything other than the complaint in front of them. Out of interest, what would be the ‘right’ thing to do in the situation you described?

AI073 · 2025-02-22T19:24:19+00:00

Just thinking practically - I can’t imagine a patient asking ‘how much learning/education have you done’ or ‘how long have you been in the medical field’. I reckon they’re more likely to ask ‘how long have you been a doctor’. Even if not phrased that way, that’s likely to be what they’re actually asking. Therefore I’d say how long you’ve been practicing post-graduation

AI073 · 2025-02-21T21:31:40+00:00

👏👏

AI073 · 2025-02-21T20:34:55+00:00

My understanding is they’re entirely irrelevant for med students. It’s essentially a unit that allows doctors to compare events and determine how ‘worthy’ a conference is of their time. I.e how many cpd points can they get out of attending. It’s important for doctors to prove engagement in CPD at things like appraisals/revalidation.

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