Who cares about A levels when u can get in via clinical sciences?!

[WAMS]

Originally Posted by yeliab_cram

i think she was being sarcy, lol

Whoops!

[yeliab_cram]

lol, think we'll put that one down to a long day at the office, eh WAMS!

[stargazer]

Totally unrelated but i feel like a rant. Does anyone else at Leeds think Berne & Levy's Physiology is utter ****?

Dull pedestrian text and NO COLOUR (well apart from that hideous hue of pale green). And it's full of typos!

It really is the pits

[brianfall]

The pictures in Tortora and Derrickson are much better. As are the ones in Bear, Conners and Paradiso. No idea what any of them mean, but they're nice to look at.

[yeliab_cram]

Originally Posted by stargazer

Totally unrelated but i feel like a rant. Does anyone else at Leeds think Berne & Levy's Physiology is utter ****?

Dull pedestrian text and NO COLOUR (well apart from that hideous hue of pale green). And it's full of typos!

It really is the pits

dont worry, by 3rd year it makes a very useful doorstop/srtructural support for your student house

[WAMS]

Originally Posted by yeliab_cram

lol, think we'll put that one down to a long day at the office, eh WAMS!

Yeah, I had a long day, relaxing and doing nothing... one day into the holidays and my brain's gone to mush! (maybe too much Christmas 'cheer'!) Having said that, I don't think that my brain was far off mush to begin with!

[WAMS]

Originally Posted by brianfall

The pictures in Tortora and Derrickson are much better. As are the ones in Bear, Conners and Paradiso. No idea what any of them mean, but they're nice to look at.

T&G (or T&D as it seems to be now!) is much easier to understand than Berne and Levy (which is as dry as a desert). However it may not be as detailed, but if you think about what you actually have to know, T&D is sufficient. Realistically there's far too much to learn to start with and using Berne and Levy makes the task much longer and near impossible.

[yeliab_cram]

true, but i always found tratora infuriating, because you had to read through many paragraphs of obvious, fairly pointless blurb before you got to anything worthwhile. I never found a good pysiology text, but it never seemed to matter, as we always did far more anatomy!

[scara666]

i'm currently on foundation clinical sciences now and if you can't motivate urself to do your alevels, believe me you won't motivate yourself to do this. theres a lot of bright people on the course and its not an easy option- for me its perfect as i had no science a-levels and got in through clearing thinkin it would be plain sailing, its not.

there are mature students on the course who've already got into med school but had to drop out and hence are working their arses off to get into leeds. people who've already sat chemistry and biology and just missed out on AAB by a few marks. even if you had perfect grades and loadsa work experience there's still no guarantee you'll get in so i think it would be wise to get your head down now and get the grades you need.

[Emma_b]

I dont understand how people think you dont have to do so well on your A levels for clinical sciences. Is that true =s? Im quite confused really because i thought the A level requirements for places like Bradford uni were around the same for say, Leeds medical school. I was hoping that if i dont do so well in A levels i could do clinical sciences as an alternate route for medicine, but is there a high chance of not getting into Leeds from Bradford? Also if at the end of my A level studies my results werent as good as the minimum requirements for medicine (most likely to be my chemistry grade) would there be any point in redoing all of my A levels? Lots of places i have researched don't take people who have resat outside of the initial 2 year A level courses. That is why i am not so sure whether to try to resit my A levels and do medicine that way or do a degree in something and go in as a mature student. Im trying my best for my chemistry results but also getting as much work experience in as possible because i know i will definately need that if my grades aren't as good as everyone elses. Sorry this is such a long post im just very confused about whether to carry on trying for medicine =s...