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Originally Posted by purple_monkey
Now they want to set a good example by training competant medics (hence they changed the course structure for this year) so they require an increase in grades..
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I'm offended....!
But in truth, a little more anatomy on the course might be a good thing. If you want to be a surgeon/orthopod/radiologist, that is...
The course was good when I was on it, as it is now. If anything, I feel the med school is going through a review and a new theme of "professionalising" its students earlier - which might explain the higher grade boundaries too. The self directed approach, while motivating the students internally to work better has the drawback of not driving people hard enough - so I guess the med school is tweaking a little. This "soft touch" thing might not be for too much longer - there are plans afoot to start beasting the students a bit more and make them work harder and more intensively. There's a plan to do an Oxbridge for the first years and compress the work into 4 weeks a term less or something. An old med school that can look at itself and make changes?? I think it's a good thing.
Interesting how people can deduce that a school is somehow easier because less people apply there or make it a first choice. Does that make Oxbridge easier? Or HYMS?
Barts' rep got screwed by a crap RAE grade. It is being worked on...intensively. For example, they reverted back to Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry as a brand (my prayers answered!!) In fact, I think it's now an obsession of the medical school - it seems to be a common point of discussion when I chat to the staff - improve the image.
In a few years, I'm sure people will say Barts is a cracking place to be - probably because it will be higher in the TES/Guardian league tables. It always has been; you only find out when you arrive though. I wasn't overly enthused when I was given my Barts place as I wanted to go to Imperial; in retrospect, it would have turned me into a highly arrogant doctor who was also heavily in debt. Going to Barts made me a moderately arrogant doctor with a heart; who is moderately in debt and much happier as he had a cracking 6 years in med school. I genuinely believe med schools have personalities and shape the doctor you become as a result (to a degree).
I just hope the professionalism drive doesn't make the school boring
Maybe I'll pop back into the union. If someone pours beer on me or vomits...nothing will have changed!
