Why You Should Come To Liverpool Medical School!

we're back right this is a good one this week's question why should you come to liverpool medical school you should [Music] best decision of my life best decision made for me by only being offered liverpool same why should you come to liverpool medical school it's really fun i think the course is good because there's right from the start so many contact hours you've got loads of different things going on so you've got lectures you've got small group teaching this and everything else you get clinical skills i also think i quite like cbl at the time oh yeah first year you're a bit like what is going on i don't know anything like it's really daunting like then picking you out for a question and like doing answering in front of 30 people when you don't think you know what the answer is but you actually learned so much more doing that like the adrenaline character building but i like how we do it here you've got a bit of like small group teaching and a bit of lectures i feel like it builds really nicely instead of jumping around with like different cases to me it makes a lot of sense so i like the way that we learn like that and clinical skills so skills is really good and all the stuff that leads so good so good at teaching plug justin i love justin right one thing i would say is the fact you only have two exams at the end of the year oh yeah you don't have to do anything no but like you don't have to stress yourself out over christmas like every other year yeah you just enjoy your christmas you know because you ain't going to get one so i have a twin and she goes to birmingham medical school so we used to always just talk about like our different experiences i'd say they were more intense throughout the year than we were so they had an exam where they'd put a flag in like an anatomy portion and you'd have to be like what vain is this we didn't really get that but we did get hot you can like you were able to learn so much from that but we didn't get tested like that and i feel like that would be a lot if we got tested like that i don't know how i would have survived yeah if we got tested like that i like the fact that we just have exams at the end of the year and even though they're really nerve-wracking you get through them you really do how they do it that everything all comes down to the summative at the end of the year suits me i would prefer that than some universities i think manchester do it in blocks with the area of the body so you'll have heart on december and then you won't touch heart again for the rest of the year whereas for us it's everything wham bam thank you ma'am all the way in summer so i feel like that suits me a lot more and i think it depends what you like but pro section i feel like just made more sense for me i thought that's something people decide on when they wouldn't apply for med school if you want to dissect or process and i would say the anatomy sessions file pro section at liverpool and they're really good so that means you don't have to actually dissect the human body which is really time consuming and you they kind of do the labor-intensive work for you liverpool is really well known for producing medical students that have really good communication skills um we're notorious for really talking to our patients and i think some people say that when you're on the wards in f1 that really starts to shoot um and it's not as studies and academically focused maybe as other universities it's more about comm skills i really like the course because it's quite patient based i feel like we get a lot of teaching about how to actually talk to people as opposed to just learning the science behind things and i'm more of a people person than uh we sit in the library and revise and revise revise so i think for me it works really well because i learned better from seeing things yeah that communication is a big thing for me in medicine and being able to communicate well i think is so important and i feel like liverpool really home in on this and make people that can communicate well to the patients because ultimately i think that way you get more more out of your patients and they feel like they can communicate with you and you have a bit of a rapport that you can build with them and i feel like liverpool do really focus on this really well the way that our course is structured it really does prepare you for being an f1 and you get that feedback on the words they say especially as now in fifth year oh we the doctors say we think it's great that you have so much exposure on the wall yeah they say liverpool grads make really good f1s yeah and obviously f1 isn't the end goal but if you're in a position where you feel comfortable doing all those skills on the ward and you know you feel comfortable talking to patients then the rest of it will come afterwards i think and then you get into hospitals in second year which is really early to actually get into hospitals which is great i like that you get on placement early as well liverpool i think liverpool's known to sort of throwing you in and it's a good thing because you get to see more and you get to learn on the communication side of things more you can never pull those big focus on communication and we do a lot to learn how to not just to treat patients but how to speak to them and how to make them feel comfortable which is important so yeah that is good you get a lot of teaching on talking to patients like breaking news asking histories and it really does help i think it definitely makes you more confident when you go on to placement starting placement early is one of the best best things you can do yeah we get quite early contact with like a clinical environment as well so as daunting as it is and even though we're on placement and we don't know anything because we're learning the science alongside it we're kind of seeing how things fit together at an earlier stage which i think makes you more confident in the long run i definitely think it helps in the long run yeah because ultimately that's where you're going to be you're going to be in the hospital yeah in the juve practice wherever and yeah second year is kind of awkward and you don't know what's happening on the wards but that means when you do go into full-time placement in third year you can just crack on i think what i've heard is liverpool i've got some of the most like honest clinical doctors out there yeah we've experienced medicine in hospitals from second year and we have such intense placements from third fourth and we do all our rotations pretty early on like yeah we get like an experience of a lot of things early on so i think that's probably the best thing about the course yeah you have to go in at some point and whether that's in second third or fourth year you're going to feel awkward the first time you go in so it's really good to get that out the way early and then you can really focus when you're in there full time and i know like personally i learn things better in teaching from a doctor on the ward or you know as part of the ward round or or go and examine this patient i learned quite well from seeing things and i feel like if you go to uni where you don't get clinical placement until quite late on um and you're not that kind of learner you could probably struggle quite a bit yeah and you just don't interact with patients as well you don't know how to respond when someone tells you something that's quite shocking or if you you have to like watch someone be giving bad news what do you say to like that person you know so i think i think it's a better learning experience i don't know how long can you sit and look at a textbook yeah like go go out and see it yeah it's definitely good to do both i'm so happy with how how early we started placement yeah definitely and placement teaches you to think on your toes as well yeah because it's all well and good being able to like you know take a multiple choice answer but when you're on that ward round and this consultant is really new about this and a you get comfortable with not knowing things which is fine and b you learn to apply it practically which is such an important skill and it makes things interesting as well yeah and finding that is ultimately the best way of learning actually seeing it on the job just makes it a lot a lot more easier for me personally to then learn the stuff when i've got a bit of context and background to put it to and i do think there's only so much learning from a book that you can do you need to apply it and you're never going to sit with a patient and spew out loads of facts about the human body you're going to be talking to them as like a human yeah and that experience you can only really get from placement so yeah i really like having early patient contact the hospitals are really good for medicine and so you've got like older hair for the children you've got local women's so you've got your obstetrics and gynecology you can really get involved there you'll see like babies you'll see birds should you want to yeah it's brilliant and and the doctors they're fabulous like they'll teach you whatever you know alda is a big big deal they're always on tv great hospital he's children's hospital one of the most famous children's hospital in the world weston walton center that's probably one of the best ones in the country from europe one of the only ones i think there's maybe two or three neuro specialists and you'll meet some of those brilliant doctors they're weird weird brilliant arrow park entry southport broad green liverpool heart and chess so it's really specialized so you see like all the normal stuff and then you do also get to see some of the like weird and wonderful it's got all these like specialty hospitals in like a very small radius blackpool almost kirk specialist centers that really do have some cool specialties there that you wouldn't experience in some of the other places around the country so that was that was the main thing to dream warrington loads of gp practices all over the place yeah even in north wales northwest places for psychiatry as well yeah all over the cafe the hospitals are all really really comfortable which is something i never even thought of before medical school but actually there's something i would say oh look into where your medical school is where you live and where they expect you to be able to get to because if you don't have a car i mean i've never had a car in medical school and i've never had an issue getting to or from placement which i think is something you don't think about before you come yeah honestly the clinical experience here is really the best bit about this creme de la creme yeah honestly and you you end up being more comfortable in hospital like i would be comfortable tomorrow if someone said right you're starting clinical placement again tomorrow i'd be comfortable putting my scrubs on walking to the hospital and talking to doctors talking to patients right now and i feel like it's best to get that experience early on because i don't feel we've lacked on any other education yeah and you have some of the best clinical experiences you'll ever get yeah i wouldn't have it any other way the clinical experience that we have here is brilliant i don't know what it is but when i meet a liverpool grad i just feel like you get a connection such a good energy such good vibes good vibes and they get you and you get them there's just a bit of a chilledness about liverpool medics yeah i think it's pretty it's brilliant how many different people you meet because i've heard other universities like southern unis most people will be from down south around london and around london but in liverpool i think you get the best mix of people everywhere the med school is really good because everyone's in my opinion they're a lot more diverse than the students that you find at other liberal med schools probably a lot better for like not just getting students in that are all about academia like everyone's a lot more rounded like the societies that they put on like enable you to enhance like different skills and things like that and that could be something to do with medical stuff in particular but it could also be stuff like musical theatre and sports and all these different things which is really good and i've only discovered this this year like being on med twitter like when they talk about sort of london unis and like what the atmosphere is like in terms of competitiveness and stuff like that and i've just never felt that here no like i feel like everyone is sort of on the same page and they're like it's never you know get to the top by tearing someone else down no i feel like it's like oh we're all support each other let's provide you together oh i've got a really good resource do you want it like i feel like yeah good for that yeah and every year group helps each other really informally but there's just so much help from every year group and i don't know if we're a small magical school or not about three years but it feels small like i feel like i know so many people in different years you see someone in grey scrubs and with the logo on it you just want to say hi to them yeah and i genuinely believe that it's way more friendly and than any other medical school i don't know whether that's a liverpool thing or a northern thing or a west coast thing yeah it is just really friendly and the people generally in liverpool are class anyway i think we're quite a fun microscope yeah like we do like bowls every year there's so much going on all the time it's not a small university there's always something going on there's loads of different events to help you get to know people there's all the different types of sports you can do through medical school so yeah i'd say it's quite fun that's a lot of work communication with other years which is quite helpful they do lots of events where like second years teach first years and third years teach second years and you get you get a uni mentor and you also get a society lms mentor so already that's two contacts in the year above that you know and can go to so it's quite nice that everybody's all linked together i would actually say like the society at liverpool is probably one of the best it's got its problems like everything like the world does but i actually think you do actually socialize a lot more with medics than at other universities yeah through it as a medical school but like we all like you just become a part of it and you go to so many events like the medical subscriptions you know everyone put on so many events compared to like birmingham they have like one ball a year and we've got so many different things that we can go to just so you can make so many different friends because you really can't go through medical school alone you just can't you need friends to rely on um you need like people to talk to because no one really understands what you're going through apart from medical students yeah not even like people like above and below you they can like give you advice but people in your year group you just need to like lean on them and you just need to like sometimes you just need to have a chat with them just because you'd freak out otherwise you just can't go through it alone you

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Published: Sun May 23 2021