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BRITISH EDUCATION
BRITISH EDUCATION
“Just as expected!” My firm partner Paullina shouted aloud right after our first bedside teaching session at Ward D7 of Addenbrooke’s hospital. We, as first year student doctors of
Practicing medicine is with out a doubt one of the most prestigious jobs not only owing to the fact that a doctor can promote health and fight diseases but also the rewards and enormous gratitude doctors often receive from patients. Medicine is a perfect combination where art and science can coexist with a lot of human contact. I would like to encourage many students to consider medicine as their future career paths. However, unrivalled intensity, high costs and the long duration of the medical course should be examined carefully beforehand. Commitment to succeed academically and maturity to perform at their best under stress are required.
Numerous exceptionally bright students apply to 25 medical schools in the s to Korean high schools). After submitting the applications, students must sit premedical admission tests, and their admission forms are eval!uated by admission tutors. For admission, good academic attainment is required, as understanding science is core to learning medicine. In general, offers are made to obtain at least two As and one B in A levels, but one should acknowledge that over 70% successful candidates enter medical school with more than three As. However, it must be noted that great academic achievement is not the sole quality admission tutors seek. Extracurricular activities, voluntary involvement in community services, previous exposure to relevant medical environments and most importantly, personal qualities are assessed. Curiosity, creativity, initiative, flexibility, and leadership are all desirable characteristics for the aspiring doctor. Also, maintaining fit health is important, since the practice of medicine requires the highest standards of personal competence.
On admission, you should be ready to exert yourself fully to be a doctor. Learning medicine is enforced by a formidable range of teaching methods. During the first period of medical school, students are timetabled for lectures and practicals just like the other university students. Familiarising medical terms and understanding the broad concepts in human physiology and anatomy are often focused onto scientific truths and facts in a didactic manner. Yet, many schools nowadays employ a new curriculum, where students are introduced to patients and exposed to clinical environments from considerably early stages. For instance, I interviewed my first ever patient in the first week of starting the medical course. Many medical schools offer intercalated Bsc year allowing medical students to obtain an expedited three year science degree course in just one year. This may be optional, and very often involves a wide range of choices on subjects medical students can briefly engage themselves in other than medicine. For me, this was an excellent chance to widen my perspectives into molecular basis of diseases, and to undertake my own laboratory based research. Then, a whole new era of clinical medicine embraces science-driven students and it primarily focuses on integrating theoretical teaching and clinical medicine into real life. From this stage, interacting with real patients in hospital as a student doctor forms the basis of learning