Studying Medicine abroad

**abbas** · 05-01-2005, 10:56 PM

Well,

Whatever the Eu country you choose, I "assume" most of the people will be able to speak english.

Mind you, you could quit your job a month early and do a full-time language course for a month, i.e. on of those intensive, intensive (notice the two) courses?

Once you have the basics, you should be able to pick it up quickly once your in the country?

**exms** · 05-01-2005, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by abbas

Whatever the Eu country you choose, I "assume" most of the people will be able to speak english.

Doubtful the med school will do its lectures in a different language just to accommodate you!

I suppose you could try an intensive (intensive) course, but I think there's already enough info to pick up in medicine without trying to learn it in another language.

xmas

**abbas** · 05-01-2005, 11:45 PM

That is true.

But you could try & find an english teaching school, like the Palacky university in the Czech republic????

**exms** · 06-01-2005, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by abbas

But you could try & find an english teaching school, like the Palacky university in the Czech republic????

They do the whole course in English? Didn't know that.

Hmm... Are you sure? How do you do the history taking, meeting and greeting patients and whatnot? Do they only let you see English-speaking ones?

Mildly puzzled (and ignorant),

xmas

**watershed** · 06-01-2005, 02:15 AM

^ I think they make u learn chzech at the same time and need to do some kind of test b4 they let u on the wards. Remember talking to some guy that went there (he lived and grew up in parague though)

**abbas** · 06-01-2005, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by jigz1982

Well louise, i am considering Palacky university in the Czech republic. They are not to competitive and the fees aren't astronomical and the cost of living is dirt cheap. Apparently a month's rent is somet like £30-40 and this includes a cleaner and broadband internet.

Also there are other unis in prague, like Charles's university but thats well expensive and cost of living is that much more too. Apparently like london!

The like others have mentioned, you also got Eire. I personally would love to go there. The fees again are not too bad but living is stupidly expensive, well in dublin it is. They say dublin is more expensive than london.

Yea according to the http://www.upol.cz/UP_En/, the teaching is in English but they do make you learn Chzech in conjunction.[/url]

**Bambi** · 06-01-2005, 08:10 AM

Charles's university is generally seen as the better one to go for rather than Palacky. Fees are roughly 7K a year and it's dirt cheap to live there. Teaching is entirely in English but if you happen to be fluent in Czech then you can do the course for home students which is free. You are taught Czech as you will need to be able to speak to patients but clinicals aren't til the 4th year. The course is a lot harder than ones here and is 6 years instead of 5. If anyone has any specific questions about it I can probably answer them as an ex of mine used to study there and told me all about it.

**abbas** · 06-01-2005, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by Bambi

....Teaching is entirely in English but if you happen to be fluent in Czech then you can do the course for home students which is free.... The course is a lot harder than ones here and is 6 years instead of 5....

So if you do it in Czech its free? Oh yes, aint they part of the EU?

I always thought Medicine in England was one of the hardest and better respected then other places??????

Abbas.

**pretoria** · 07-01-2005, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by abbas

I always thought Medicine in England was one of the hardest and better respected then other places??????

Abbas.

I think it's harder in the States and Canada. And in France, they have very hard first year exams, in order to weed out the vast majority of people who commenced the course (because it is easy to get into medicine in France, but not so easy to pass the course).

**Bambi** · 08-01-2005, 12:54 AM

It is definately a lot harder in Prague! You have to do a lot more modules including Latin and biophysics and you also do a lot more rotations. The work load is a lot greater too and you have to carry out experiments like those on other science degrees and if you get behind even if you have a good reason it's just tough, they don't give you any special consideration. There is even a special section in the prospectuss about repeating the year because so many people fail.

In America the standard of medical education is quite similar to here except they tell you exactly what you need to read rather than just telling you to do some extra reading and they generally give you loads of practice questions too.