Katherine M.
About me
| Katherine M. | |
| Psychology | |
| Psychology | |
| Undergraduate | |
| James | |
| 2007 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| MB ChB | |
| Medicine (Grad Entry) | |
| University of Liverpool | |
| 2007 | |
| 2011 |
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I volunteered once a week at The Retreat for one year to get experience of working with patients.
Why I continued studying
I decided whilst studying psychology I wanted to become a doctor. If you have a health degree you can do an accelerated four-year medical degree at Liverpool instead of the usual five/six year course.
What my course is like
Liverpool do a PBL-based (Problem Based Learning) course instead of the traditional lecture based. This essentially means that your learning is more self-directed, with earlier hospital placements. I find this suits me having done a degree at York where you have to be in charge of a lot of your own studying. However, you need quite a lot of motivation and work-ethic to get through and it doesn't work very well for learning anatomy.
How I have funded my studies
The NHS covers tuition fees years 2-4 of the 4 year graduate-medicine course. They also give means-tested bursaries.
I also still get a student loan.
Where I hope to be in 5 years
Plans after I finish my course:
I will graduate as a doctor in 2011 and plan to do my foundation training in Merseyside.
My advice to students considering further study
Post-grad study can work out very expensive unless you are doing a funded PhD so only go into it if you have a clear idea of how it will benefit your career in the future.
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