Lab coat / Dissection kit / etc..

**amy2705598** · 12-09-2007, 04:09 PM

To any second / third years out there...

Will we need to buy our own dissection kits? Received a letter today saying we would need our own white coats, but it didn't mention dissection kits / stethoscopes.
Will there be lab coats for sale there during fresher's week (letter says that the gec students need a coat for the very first week). There's an offer on the bma site for lab coats with dissection kits, but I was wondering if we actually needed the kit. Thanks

**Captain_Carrot** · 13-09-2007, 02:35 AM

White coats: Yes - probs for sale at freshers fair. If not, from biosciences.
Disection kits: No.
Stehoscopes: Not til 3rd year/GEC2

Hope that helps
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**dsn** · 28-09-2007, 10:37 PM

A woman from the BMA was trying to sell me a dissection kit and found it hard to believe that we don't do it, making out that any school that doesn't do dissection isn't a real school. The cow!

**Captain_Carrot** · 28-09-2007, 11:38 PM

You should have said that any union that doesn't stand up for its members against an arbitrary government scheme isn't a proper union.

Yes, that's right, I went there...

**dsn** · 29-09-2007, 01:12 AM

There were so many of those BMA people, it was unbelievable! I tried asking her why a specific union like the BMA is better than a more global (and dare I say more influential, at least within Labour) union like Unison and all she could say was that the BMA has sole bargaining rights for doctors... which doesn't really answer why there should be a specific union in the first place. Clearly, the BMA are mostly a self perpetuating bureaucracy.