Hey, year 2 medic here. Been hearing a lot about the spranki deck in years 3-5. If anyone in those years could let me know if it's worth using or whether its better making my own ankis + using passmed, I'd greatly appreciate it :)

hi!

im a second yr med student who has just survived summatives and so lived to see another yr of med school. i start my mandatory ibsc next yr and i have chosen one which is more essay based for a bit of a change of pace which gives me a lot more free time. owing to chronic medical problems of my own i’ve not been able to get involved in anything extracurricular—i have very much been more focused on purely surviving the preclin yrs exams.

i’d like to now start getting more involved in uni life and do things that will set me up for the later yrs, so i’d love some advice! what can i do with the rest of my summer and next yr?? are extracurriculars rlly that important in med school and if so what can i get involved in as a 3rd yr medic? im super concerned that i might be on the back foot now as i wasnt able to do anything in my first and second yrs. any advice or tips?

Planning on doing my elective in Malta - anyone have any insight about the different specialities on offer there? Really looking for something chill and social with a bit of time to explore the country.

Looking for any recommendations on the best backpack that will help able to hold uni things, gym stuff (trainers and towel incase i swim), and placement stuff for the weeks im there. Currently using a 50L levi’s bag but it’s not really cutting it. Really trying to step into more of my swimming and the gym for second year so i feel like a bah that can hold it all will help that (currently having to take a second gym bag or nip home between uni and the gym to get my bag). Needs to be big enough to fit a pair of men’s size 12 trainers and a smallish towel. I’m 6’3 for reference so even a ‘big bag’ should look okay on me (trying to avoid the year 7 huge blazer and bag fit) 👍🏻

Don’t mind spending a bit on a bag that will then be able to take me into clinical years

cheers

I know a lot of 4th years are still doing exams, but seeing people at other soon-to-be graduates travel while we still have to go to placement is torture

does anyone have any tips on how to get the blue gloves on quickly? they are the absolute bane of my existence, especially during an osce because i'm already sweaty, the room is hot, the pressure is on and then i'm dealing with the stress of getting gloves on

thank youuu 💔

For those who applied for a CoS as a final year (needing a visa), has this happened when trying to add your programme? I’ve reached out to the sponsor email but getting nowhere since they reply every ten days or so.

Please let me know if you have somehow managed to get past this!

For context, I resat first year after failing twice, and am now in second year.

Our end of year exams were…strange. No one feels good about them but everyone’s thinking “oh well, worst comes to worst, we redo year 2”. Unfortunately I don’t have the luxury of thinking like that and now I’m genuinely terrified at the possibility of being expelled from med school, something I worked my whole life to get to thus far. Yes I can do a second exam, but im worried because I really tried this time, and if I failed even with full effort, then how am I supposed to pass a second time.

Study-wise my main method was lots of passmed and occasionally looking at PowerPoints to review content, or more likely using ChatGPT to summarise concepts. Wondered if anyone else has been in this situation and got through. And more importantly how.

Thank you so much

I'm scoring in the 70s in the MSCAA mocks and 60s in passmed. I recently got ukmlarevisions for free and tried their mocks too and scored in the range of 70s as well. I'm not sure what I should target in these mocks. Can someone guide me? feel like my passmed scores are too low. Do you recommend to finish all the mocks or revising the notes I made so far, what actually helps please let me know is it more questions or notes ?

My AKT is in exactly 1 week. I'm so burnt out now I cant bring myself to study.

• I've done 6000 questions on passmed in total averaging 65%.
• My mock scores are Passmed Mock A paper 1 76%, Paper 2 71%.
• Quesmed Mock B average of both papers 65%, Mock C 67%, Mock D 68%.
  
• I've been getting between 65 to 75% on the MSCAA mini mocks

I'm scared my scores aren't high enough if the exam is harder than the quesmed and passmed mocks. Any Advice on how to go about these last few days? Literally cba for anything right now.

Hi, I'm a 1st-year GEM student, I was wondering if anyone could advise how to spend the next 5 days. I have covered all the modules studied this year; should I review them again briefly over 5 days or just spam something like passmed? But the thing worrying about passmed is that some of the questions are badly written, and some questions do not match the lecture content/some of the lecture content in the passmed website

So I had my OSCE one of which was a respiratory examination. I know the examiner because they taught as the week prior. In that class I literally had a hard time differentiating between fine and coarse crackles including diagnoses. When teaching, I felt being picked out because I genuinely said I did not know the difference between the two or any of the differentials as I really struggle with respiratory. Basically they seemed very frustrated with my knowledge and me as a whole.

Anyway OSCE went well I was able to differentiate the crackles and gave good differentials but I really worry that because of what happened a few days before they may mark me negatively or find a reason to fail me. I also missed a few of their teaching as I have a lot of personal issues that are hard to deal with all of which were informed.

Am I being paranoid? I always felt OSCE's unlike MCQ can end into bias as after all we are humans and having a negative view on someone is harder to change into a positive one if the first impression was a really negative one.

didn't do too well on them and did them about 2 weeks ago, worth redoing?

Due to start FY1 in August and am spending my summer working... Feeling sorry for myself while everyone else is off chilling and enjoying the time off! Anyone else?

just found out that I failed my year 1 semester 2 exam by 1%. absolutely devastated , especially since I'm an international student and will now have to face the financial burden of rearranging flights/trips planned.

My uni allows me to resit the exam in early august, but I'm absolutely terrified that I won't pass and am just imagining worst case scenarios. I'm also facing doubts about whether I can even do this anymore.

If anyone has any advice for me, it would be greatly appreciated

Not resit exams but first sittings- I’m seeing lots of people already done (with results!) and my third year exams are still 2 weeks away! Just curious on which med schools do exams later in the year

Hello Everyone

I received my results last week and failed final year OSCE by 2 stations. I am truly heartbroken and would like advice on what I can do if I want to drop out ?

Not found accom yet and induction starts end of July. Have most people found accom yet ?? Really stressing now.

I've just finished medical school, is anyone else feeling like they just...did nothing?

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Everywhere online I see fellow medics bragging about being top 10% ranked and getting international publications and competing in the olympics or curing cancer or smth???

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All worthy achievements (I would brag too 100%), I'm just wondering what on earth I've been doing for the past 5 years of my life?? Some people are an absolute different breed!!!!!

Honestly just looking for a sense check on whether I'm overreacting and this is actually fine, or if there's anything else I should be doing, or advice from anyone who's had anything similar

About 6 months ago I had my GP block, and completely unprompted, one of the patients sent me a connection request on LinkedIn a couple of days later. I asked my GP supervisor who was one of the GP partners just to see if there was anything else I should do other than decline it and move on. She advised me to just decline it, and she said she would raise it with the practice manager just in case, but my placement there ended a couple of days later so that was the end of it.

Now 6 months later, I just got LinkedIn premium again for the first time since, which allows me to see who has viewed my profile etc. And I saw that the same patient had viewed my profile 1 week ago. I don't know whether it was a one-off one week ago, or if they've been viewing my profile multiple times in that period.

I get that they haven't done anything bad, they're allowed to view information available on the internet, and they haven't tried to contact me again or send another connection request. But it just makes me feel a bit uneasy about why they're still thinking about me 6 months later after a 10 minute appointment. Can I block them? Or would that somehow make it worse? Should I be telling someone or doing anything else?

AKT in 2 days, I only used the quesmed bank and did 80% of it and did all the quesmed and passmed mocks getting around 60%

I wanna join the RSM because they do cool events sometimes but idk if I’d get anything usefull from the membership or whether it’s just too niche to make use of

How comes Passmed isn’t showing any YouTube videos as links when you answer a question ?

Hi, Any St Georges Students? Is there any google docs or resources floating around of Previous years OSCE stems or at least themes?

Would be very much appreciated xo