Studying Medicine: What's It Like?

from Cambridge from the Inside · host Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

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?