Who to live with? Medics vs Normal People

[yeliab_cram]

i have to agree, i have lived with mates from first year until this year, i have one medic house mate, who lived below me in first year, and we have supplemented old housemates, who have graduated with other friends who did years out etc. Although next year is complicated, we can move in with medics or try to fill the house. Problem is, as many have said here, as fun as medics are, i dont want to live with them 24/7.

so its a tough choice, but you are not alone! i think it is important to try and remain 'student' like for as long as possible. Its not really until late on in 3rd year that you start to become a bit different, what with being in hospitals all day and swanning around campus in a tie.

good luck, and happy hunting!

[WAMS]

If you value your sanity, do not live with medics!

Or, if you must, pick them very carefully. For example, if you're laid back, don't live with the known uber stressed folk - they'll just wind you up.

Yeah some medics get soooooo stressed and panicy. You'll quiz each other and think 'oh no, I don't know that' and then you'll get stressed and then the whole house will get stressed and before long you'll be in a state!!

It is useful to live with one other medic tho - so you can ask each other directions to places, info about the timetable, help on some work. Also, during OSCEs, it's great to practise histories and examinations on each other.

good luck, and happy hunting!

Hmmmmm, 'happy' and '[house] hunting' in the same sentence. That's an oxymoron!!!!

[claudia]

You're lucky you have a choice - at some medical schools (like George's) you have no real choice in the matter unless you go out of your way to look for physios and biomedics to share with. There are many disadvantages to living with your medic classmates and I suggest living with non medics until the start of 4th year then finding medics who are not in your year to share with. Then you're not living with the people you see in lectures all week and each year someone leaves and the people left get a fresh new flatmate.

Having said that, by the time you get to 4th year you're all spending time in pairs or groups attached to firms so maybe this is a good time to share with people in your year. I shared with medics in different years for the first 4 years then moved home for final year. The main disadvantage of sharing with a group of friends from another year: you often feel a bit left out.

[Fried_Rice]

Normal people all the way. In later years you'll end up with medics regardless as these people will graduate, but I would definitely recommend living with non-medics for at least a few years.

As someone else said, I would go mad if I lived/knew only medics, sometimes you just need to get away from it all!

(Woop wasted post!)

[Gizmo says -]

a lot depends on your own mindset, and ow well it matches thoses of your colleagues.

put a closeted medic in wif a bunch of no-medics who are all doing what they want, and the medic will go crazee when it finally dawns on them that they didnt want to do medicine at all. earing the plethora of wonderful jobs the non-medics will be applying for could kill the poor macca.

on the other 'and, a well balanced medic who doesnt need to adopt a closeted approach to life in order to maintain their motivation, whose motivation for practising medicine is based on real reasons, can fit in wif non medics who go out and party wiffout any bad feeling developing. unfortunately, there are not many of these around, especially in the older med schools, where peeps aere often closeted in the first place from the wonders of life in order to get to med skool.

finding medics who 'ave reason enough to do medicine so as to give up so many joyous sides to life ....is difficult. but not impossible. i seem to get on well wif all the students in my 'all (possibly least so the medics mind lol who seem to get upset when i tell them the turths about ow shitty medical jobs are!). i kinda accept my all chums bieng rich lazy buggers doing philosophy and fine art, as long as its waht they want of course, cos they give MY life some depth and vibrant diversity of so many peeple's lives that is the fulcrum of medicine). Often straight closeted medics cant at this point in their lives (it requires serious 'tunnel vision' to keep on track for medicine if you aint properly motivated for it, after all, as you can tell from the posts of peeple on this forum quite a lot). some of them need to deny the existence of other lives and interests in order to maintain their tunnel vision quite often, and thats not really a reason to do medicine.

and living with a bunch of tunnnel visioned peeple is a life less lived, although if you share that tunnel vision then its really no loss!

[Gizmo says -]

a rich diversity of peeple remind me of my interest in ealthcare.
a group of peeple who chat about their 10 A*s gcses, or medsoc over lunch is a step backwards for me, its only a tiny tiny tiny proportion of what life is about.
i want the 'ole pie of life, ta, macca. i certainly dont want to ang wif public skool 19 year olds competing to see who can pretend not to ave been studying eight ours a day the most becos its the only thing keeping them moivated else they'd do summat else entirely different if they could only be 'onest to themselves about it.... christ who would want that?

one track minds dont add up to this unfortunately, and like or not, a lot of medics are on one track or they wouldnt 'ave got into med skool in the first place.
if you find a well balanced group of peeple wif a wealth of absorbing pastimes that make you want to put the kettle on and chat wif em about it (and perhaps who 'appen to be medics) and thus who enrich your life, then by all means move in wif them.

[Bex x]

No idea why this post floated from 2005, but anyway.

I quite liked living with non-medics, because it meant that we were stressed at different times - therefore weren't trying to eat each other all panicking at the same time - and they'd gone by the time I had exams, so I had the house to myself to fill with posters of the clotting cascade and things like that.

I'm with one medic and two non now, which I think is a nice balance. Someone to ask when I'm having an "Oh god, how does the spleen work" crisis, and two people to go to when I'm having an "Exam tomorrow, hate my degree, hate my life" crisis.

[cat_bach]

i`m living with medics next year simply because I ve really clicked with a few of the medics to a degree i just havent with the people in halls. I guess what I trying to say is Im sharing with them cos I like them and have a hell of a good laugh with them, not cos they`re medics.

[Gizmo says -]

No idea why this post floated from 2005, but anyway.

it was Fried Ricicles, macca.

[Fried_Rice]

it was Fried Ricicles, macca.

Oh! so it was, but it was at the top of the list when I came on, so someone else must have posted and deleted then, or something. Unless I was truly wasted and hallucinated the whole thing!

I love alcomohols!