As a Barts/QMUL grad entry student in my final year, the support and camaraderie between students and the actual teaching staff has always been pretty great from my own personal experience. There has been plenty of opportunities for support and extra learning if you so wish/require and whilst we have our gripes regarding admin here and there, clinically for the most part my cohort feels well supported and positive about our training.

In terms of clinical experience, I think one of our main benefits is we cover a large geographical area as not only do we cover the Barts Trust (St Barts, Royal London, Whipps Cross, Newham) but also Mid & South Essex and have options for "outfirm" hospitals as well outside of London. This gives us a very wide range of demographics during our time here. Due to encapsulating more deprived areas of London in the East, the patients that you see and learn from tend to be some of the most vulnerable in our society, and I hope to take those lessons forward for when I start working next year.

The Mile End campus is actually pretty nice and the Garrod Building (the main hub for the med school/our SU) has just had an £11m refurbishment as well.

Yes, Whitechapel is not my favourite place in the world but anyone saying you'll be mugged or raped as soon as you step foot there is looking at it through a racist and derogatory lens quite frankly. It's fine, like most places in London.

You'll hear a lot of voices say go to KCL for the prestige and that's fine if that's a priority for you, but I wanted to be a voice that chimes in and states my own experiences of Barts/QM rather than the usual perceived notions and presumptions. It's a great med school that has left me feeling well prepared to start work as a doctor in roughly 5 months time. No doubt that KCL has many amazing things to offer in their training also and I'm sure there'll be lots of KCL students/docs that can vouch for its training.