Cambridge from the Inside

Studying Medicine: What's It Like?


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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?

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Cambridge from the InsideBy Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge