locations

[benneh]

hi there, i was wondering if anyone knew the exact postcode for:

a) the university campus (i think its called mile end?)
b) the area that we would be taught most of the time, i.e. for lectures
c) the hospitals we will attend during clincal periods

thanks alot

[kizdxb]

A. E1 4NS
B. E1 2AD
C. EC1A 7BE (St Bartholomew's Hospital)
E1 1BB (The Royal London Hospital)

[benneh]

awesome, thanks for that mate. so am i right in thinking that our actual student lectures in 1st year for example will be in the royal london hospital (or a section of the hospital)?

im so excited. its all so central in london, and my dad actually works on fenchurch street which is about a mile down the road!

[f_debelder]

so am i right in thinking that our actual student lectures in 1st year for example will be in the royal london hospital (or a section of the hospital)?

Not exactly mate. The lectures take part in a custom built, medical school/research centre about a minutes walk behind the hospital (have to walk through the ambulance bay to get to it).

And apart from Barts and the Royal London hospitals, you could be placed at any of the following for clinical stuff (NB: for 1st and 2nd year medicine in society (basically GP practice attachment, following practice nurses etc it can be anywhere in north east london/essex...as far as barking, plaistow, romford etc).

Mile End Chest Hospital: Bethnal Green
Whipps Cross:E11 1NR
Newham General: E13 8SL
Princess Alexandria: Somewhere in Harlow, Essex
Queen's:RM7 0AG
Broomfield Hospital:CM1 7ET
Colchester:CO4 5JL
Southend:SS0 0RY

[rosa999]

i have my medsoc in barking...mission! xxx

[f_debelder]

Medsoc...*shudder*

I have mine in Mile End Hospital and some GP in leyton...can't wait for it to be over.

[benneh]

Medsoc?

[f_debelder]

It's like...spending a day at a GP every fortnight but not actually doing any real medicine. More like learning about how disease affects people's family, what drives people to seek medical help, services available to patients, shadowing nurses, receptionists, sometimes the GP. Highlight of my first year was having my own consulting room and seeing a woman and her baby alone. Have to fill out really annoying reflective writing though, bane of my life.

Second year the game is upped a little, most people get a hospital Medsoc. I got adult psychiatry. More medicine is included, your made to feel more like a member of the team, but still a lot of following every member of the team apart from a doctor. Having said that, every week we start the day with a ward round, then do stuff like home visits last week to a psychotic patient with a senior registrar and a psychiatric nurse, another 2nd year and a 4th year. Was pretty cool.
In 2nd year you also have EPC, which is a half day every other week where you practice history taking and exams.

Great thing about medsoc/epc is that you do feel like a student doctor rather than a medical student. There are many humbling experiences in it that really make you think/feel a little upset. One was the woman who had a stroke who lived with her elderly sister, another was the above woman who let me hold and examine her baby, there was me aged 18 who had never picked up a baby before...but you could see she had such trust in her eyes, I felt like such a fraud with my stethoscope round my neck! This year was having adult psych patients ask me if I would mind escorting them back to their rooms, such responsibility and a mismatch of power! Hell, I'm only 19 and some of these people were 40+!

[benneh]

Sounds awesome mate, thanks for the insight. I've been reading the student BMJ to try and keep up with medical issues on my gap year. Anything else is great to keep me in touch