Forum: New Zealand Medical Schools

yay congrats to you too =D - I'm hoping to head there IF I get the 2:1 fingers crossed... have you already got your degree? and what in? =) I was really surprised; I was rejected by my other 3...

I got a conditional offer from Track on Friday and letter from UEA on Saturday. Now all I need to do is get the grades in the Open University modules that I'm doing!! Good luck to people still...

Thanks! Thats very sweet of you :) . They are very much appreciated, and needed atm! Guessing we must be getting close to crunch time now... urgh! Will let you know when i hear :) xx

Weren't you shocked Jolt when you heard them? Anyway I do hope you're right, because tomorrow is the 15th (the middle of March!), and I've also heard that they give out offers and rejections on a...

I've been looking at the accomodation but am not sure what would be best. I love the look of the QM Halls but apparently it is really competitive. I want to meet lots of people and have fun but I...

An ABG is where a needle is stuck into the wrist at a steep angle to go and pierce the radial artery (the one you can feel with your fingers at your wrist). This is needed to see the levels of...

Crash call! Here is the start of my latest blog... On friday (two weeks ago!) had the most awesome ward round ever! Literally! Reading the title of this blog you might think I'm a bit weird for...

Last week at work went really quickly. Partly because I was looking forward to my interview (perhaps looking forward to is the wrong word, more anticipating the interview) and my boyfriend coming...

Hi, Ok, so my first week on my medicine rotation, which is based around the GI system (top to bottom, including associated organs such as liver, pancreas etc.) and I get back to the 'proper' hands...

So last week was a nice and quiet one at work, which was good. Oh, and I won our weekly Thursday lunchtime game of cards, which was awesome :) It got crazily busy December/January time as I was...

The human body contains 10 times more microbes than the human body has cells. Further study of gut bacteria has shown that these bacteria contain 3.3 million genes in comparison to just 23,000 human...

Aggressively treating HIV infection before symptoms become apparent could improve patient outcomes and control the spread of the disease. The studies conducted in both developing and developed...

A big step forward has been made in understanding how polymorphisms in a region of junk non-coding DNA (an intron) can affect the risk of heart disease. The intron in question is located on...

The usefulness of mice as animal models in hepatic research has taken a great leap forward. One of the most commonly cited problems with animal models is that they are different and respond...

At the London nightclub Pacha, the Department of Health and Alzheimer's Society launched a new campaign to inform the public about dementia. The launch featured people with dementia ballroom dancing....