whats your uni timetable like??

rev_henry

VfM4meplse wrote: »

You'll find that for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy etc the courses are very much f/t 9-5/6pm (with Wed afternoons off) and a solid 3 hours additional work is required every evening.

Yup, I'm a 2nd year Pharmacist, I'm in at 9 EVERY day this semester, but coming home between 12 and 2 most days, except when I have a lab which is probably once or twice a week on average. This semester's unusual in that I don't have Wednesdays off.

Friend is doing dentistry and its exactly as you say really, but he already gets to interfere with patients and I don't.

Lil_Me_2

KellyKing1987 wrote: »

If there is a certain course and Uni you want to go to - email them and ask them what the timetable is like and they will be able to help more than we can

This is the best advice. Being a timetabler I can assure you that the timetables vary greatly between courses and years, and then again it will vary between universities too. Contact the uni! We don't bite

sazdes

VfM4meplse wrote: »

You'll find that for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy etc the courses are very much f/t 9-5/6pm (with Wed afternoons off) and a solid 3 hours additional work is required every evening.

I wish medics had Wednesday afternoons off!!

Timetable depends really 1st 2 years are lecture based so you have 4 hours lectures every morning then pbl and clinical skills twice a week in the afternoons (4 hours of studying a made up patients symptoms and working with actors to simulate consultations.). Then there's resource sessions (looking at disections with a tutor talking about what you see), pharmacy lecturing/tutorials, anatomy/physiology teaching whenever it can be squished in. One day a week is spent full time shadowing either GPs/hospital consultants (alternates)

3rd, 4th, 5th year you're full time in GPs/hospitals (2 days a week at GPs normally). Spend the days taking histories from patients to write up, sitting in on clinics/consultations, lectures, clinical skills sessions (learning how to take blood, do various assessments etc) and sessions to practice skills (eg going to surgery and putting drips etc into patients).

Tis great fun but soooo much work! plus at least 4 hours a day worth of self directed learning so answering the 20 questions relating to the topic of the week/researching the illnesses you've come across and their treatments. The vast majority of my weekend is also consumed by it tbh!