St George's, University of London

The Messiah · 09-07-2004, 01:57 PM

The Medicine and Physiotherapy courses have the same content in the first two years, so would it be wise to choose Physiotherapy as one of my 'other two' choices, and hope that they'll let me convert to medicine at the end of the second year?

edtomu · 09-07-2004, 02:22 PM

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The Medicine and Physiotherapy courses have the same content in the first two years

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Where did you get this idea from? The courses are the same(ish) for the first term only ie The Common Foundation Programme. Certainly can't just transfer.

Perhaps you mean the BSc in Biomed Science. In this case, the first 2 years are similar and the best students can transfer to Medicine at the start of clinical years.

Messiah - Apologies, I seem to be hounding you across the fora but if you keep asking crazy questions...

The Messiah · 09-07-2004, 07:47 PM

No it's okay... you're not, it just seems we are interested in the same places... (if you're not at uni already) I do ask a lot of questions but I just want to be sure of what excatly i'm letting myself in for. If I don't ask it bothers me for ages....

Okay so it's Biomedicine that's the same. Okay then thanks... choosing your other two options is much harder than I thought...

S Knights · 09-07-2004, 10:02 PM

Remember that you don't have to choose two other options to fill up the six places if you do not want to. If you do end up going for a biomed or similar degree with the hope of transferring I suggest thinking very carefully about it since it isn't an easy or common transfer.
Not sure what the situation is like at St George's, but at my own university the medical school offers something like four or five places for students transferring from Biomed. The places are then contested by about eighty odd people, with an interview process to get through... Even if you interview well for the place you would be asked to score (as I recall) over 70% in ALL in course assessments over the course of your first BSc year to be considered for the transfer to the first year of the medical course (no skipping years is possible).

Think very carefully about it... would it really be a feasable option?