Rowing :D

[pdob]

Thought I'd refresh this topic with a bit of info about rowing as a medical student.
Pretty much all the uni's have a club (of varying standards) the most competitive being Durham (does medicine), Uni of London (does medicine x5), Oxford Brookes (dosen't), Reading (dosen't) and Oxbridge (does).

-Obviously there are more, just put those up as they tend to win the most -

Specific Medical Schools that have clubs are:

United Hospitals (United Hospitals Boat Club-Welcome Page) covering:
- St. George's (Welcome to St. George's Hospital Boat Club! — St. George's Hospital Boat Club)
- GKT (only compete in UH events, otherwise are Kings)
- Barts (St. Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospitals' BC)
- ICSM (Welcome Page)
- RUMS (Welcome to RUMSBC)
- RVC (but only does hamster medicine) (RVCSUS University Students Union - The Home for RVCSUS University Students)

UH organises rowing for the medical school boat clubs and offer really good competition.
At the London medical schools you can either row for your college or the Uni of London, although this can be difficult to do with a time-demanding course such as medicine (but has been done, very successfully)

Oxford and Cambridge organise their rowing by college, so you'd row for, eg. Jesus College Cambridge. rather than Cambridge medics. If you are very good, you can also row for the university.

Durham is organised in the same way as other collegiate Unis - i.e. you row for your college, and can 'upgrade' to the full university BC.

Other medic rowers have to do it through the university. this can be difficult as people doing farm management obviously have more time on their hands than someone doing medicine, so you just have to be really organised.

Rowing is an excellent way to get really fit and make lots of friends. university is the best (and cheapest) time to take it up. Most people have never rowed before, so give it a go!

[dancromb]

Hey all,

I'd love to get involved with rowing, having lived with a couple of rowers during my undergraduate degree and having always been keen to try it.
However, I'm going to be starting the 4-year GPEP course at Kings in Spetember and I'm worried that I won't have the time to fit rowing in, especially since the course is so intense! Any ideas? I'm also planning to play hockey since that is my first sport so any advice on whether i'll have time for that would be great too!

Thanks,
Dan

[Frank E]

I rowed at college.
We weren't any good. Someone suggested instead of 4 or 8 shouting and 1 rowing we do it the other way round.

It takes someone very dedicated to read a medicine, enineering or similar degree and put in the early hours on the water.

[Gizmo says -]

i canna fink of anyfing duller, macca.

although it beats using a rowing machine in a gym, or a treadmill, for sure.