Laura’s medical notes

Laura took some interesting notes about Kings students applying to medicine at King – details on the 5 year and the 4 year GPEP course

Graduate Application to Medicine and Dentistry at King’s: Notes from talks 19 April 2010

Graduate Screening scheme: Medicine 5 year programme

• Must be predicted a 2:1 (no point applying without this)
• Also need passes in A or As level Chem and Biol.
• Only need to provide 1 reference
• No need to add GPEP as one of UCAS choices as automatically considered for this at interview
• Last year: 84 applications: 29 offered interviews and 16 offered places (0 offers made for GPEP)

 

Graduate Screening scheme: Dentistry

• 30 places available on the GED programme
• Unlike medicine GSS, need to add GEP programme as one of your 4 UCAS places
• Last year: 26 applicants through GSS: 17 offered interviews and 12 offered places so far
• Reference is very important for dentistry GSS
• Academic grades also important – either consistently good or steady improvement
• No longer require students to demonstrate manual dexterity

 

Admissions Office:

5 non-academic criteria measured:

• Community activities (contact with general public important)
• Scholastic activities (mention any academic achievements)
• General activities/interests
• Paid/voluntary work
• Work shadowing/observation

 

Each of these are given a weighting: desirable, very desirable or compulsory (although admissions officer did not state weighting for each of these)

GPEP Medicine

• Selection for interview is primarily through UKCAT score

Last year (2009) there were 1,600 applicants for 24 places

Library into seminar room

Here I am helping out on reception – something i have not done for yonks. Notice our library is much diminished – as we know. But here is a nice thing.

I have one student waiting for a QQ, but there are 9 other students visible. They are at the far end of the room in a CV session with Evan. Our info room is increasingly becoming a seminar room.

I totally approve of this. Finding stuff out is increasingly an activity on the web that students are familiar with,  though they do it very badly – ie randomly – taking a lot of unnecessary time.

But having the careers room as more of a  learning centre -this is surely the way forward.

And wait, in come Jeff Riley and has a quick word with Evan’s group and tells them there is an employer session about to begin with Linked-In. 2 of the group go off to the session, 2 more sign up for qq.s

The last thing is a bit of a disappointment. The sessions are meant to cut down on the 1-1′s. Of course what we know is that they actually build the demand.

MBTI workshop in Graduate School

2 colleagues did a worskhop on this. Always good to see new exercises.

Used a nice exercise for E/I/ Gave 2 sweets to each participant and said you must put a sweet in to middle of table to make a point. Only 2 sweets each

Then gave a bunch of sweets in the middle and got people to add discussion by taking a sweet.

Phase 1 – forcing you to be I, phase 2 allowing you to be E.

For S/N they gave out a picture in an envelope. In pairs one person had to describe the picture to the other then show it – and see if they recipient had got it. Were they surprised?

Apparently they are going to do an advanced course which refine the concepts – such ideas as the shy ‘E’.