Studying Medicine: What's It Like?
Episode description
Stay tuned for our new podcast with Louisa, 5th year Medic, who goes through everything you need to know about what it's like studying Medicine at Cambridge.
00:50 Why did you choose Medicine?
02:50 Staying in the NHS?
04:30 What’s the Medicine course like at Cambridge? And how it differs to other Medicine courses
06:30 How did you choose your universities?
09:45 Any favourite lecture courses?
11:00 What a day in the life looks like for a medic?
12:20 What is intercalation?
13:00 Louisa’s dissertation on climate anxiety
14:30 Studying History and Philosophy of Science during your intercalation year
16:20 What is second year like for Cambridge medics
18:45 Can you do many things alongside a Medicine degree, what’s the workload like?
24:20 Preparing for your medicine application to Cambridge
34:30 What preparation did you do for your Medicine interview?
37:50 What was your Cambridge interview like?
47:30 Did you ever think about studying Medicine at Oxford?
51:00 How similar are supervisions for Medicine to the Medicine interview?
53:20 What has clinical medicine been like for you so far?