How to choose your BSc.

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Presentation transcript:

How to choose your BSc

What factors are important to you? Overview What factors are important to you? General factors to consider when choosing your BSc Factors to consider for specific courses– med hums, management, bioeng and computational medicine Making the most of the BSc fair Q&A and “mini BSc fair”

What factors are important to you? https://tinyurl.com/BScpretalk

Using advice from older students They’ve been through the process before and it’s fresh in their mind You will ultimately experience it from their perspective, not the lecturer’s perspective They can provide information you won’t find online or at the BSc fair Most BSc’s will be completely different this year Organisers of the BSc and lecturers will change One student’s experience may not be reflective of the whole BSc

Portal opens Wednesday 6th 17:00pm Key dates Portal opens Wednesday 6th 17:00pm Portal closes Wednesday 13th 17:00pm Allocations released Wednesday 20th 15:00pm

3 blocks of teaching and ICA’s Module 2 Overview of the year Module 1 12 weeks 3 blocks of teaching and ICA’s Module 2 4 weeks Group project Clinical Case Study Module 3 15 weeks Project with write-up and presentation

30% Module 1 25% Module 2 45% Module 3 BSc Mark Breakdown Written task – 9% Oral task – 9% Data management and interpretation & communication of findings – 22% 25% Module 2 Group project – 15% Clinical Case Study – 10% 45% Module 3 Project write-up – 35% Oral presentation – 10%

How is your BSc used in the future? - FPAS

How is your BSc used in the future? - FPAS

How is your BSc used in the future? - CST

Projects on offer and chance of getting published Factors to consider Personal interest Relevance to career Competition Location Relevance to years 5 and 6 Projects on offer and chance of getting published Chance of getting a 1st Contact hours and workload

How to decide… “What are you supposed to get out of your BSc?” + “What do you want to get out of your BSc?”

Cohort Size

The new BSc’s 4 new BSc’s this year: Anaesthesia & Critical Care Cancer Frontiers Remote Medicine Surgical Design, Technology and Innovation Obviously less known about these compared to more established BSc’s Quite exciting and novel May appeal to you because of career relevance or personal interest

Cohort Size Negative correlation between cohort size and student satisfaction Larger cohort: More opportunities for projects More people to meet Better peer-to-peer support Smaller cohort: Get to know people better, including your lecturers More personalised feedback

Relevance to Future Career Particularly easy if you know what you want to go into If you are unsure (like most people!) then take the time to think for what specialties that BSc may be relevant This could be both the taught content and the BSc projects You may even use the BSc to realise you don’t want to pursue that specialty further… that is still helpful! There will be opportunities throughout your career to build evidence of your interest

My BSc and Project had relevance to…. Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry Pharmacology General Practice Geriatrics Immunology Obstetrics & Gynaecology Oncology Paediatrics Pathology Artificial Intelligence Cardiology Health Policy & Leadership

Location Mainly relevant to Module 1 Could be in CX, HH or South Kensington More relevant if you commute into London Projects can also be in other locations

Competition Allocations based of preferences and rankings Ranking calculated as: Overall year 1 mark (30%) + Overall year 2 mark (70%) “To allocate students to BSc pathways, we go down the ranked list starting at the highest ranked student allocating students to their first choice. Once a pathway is full, the next student with that pathway as their first choice will be allocated their second choice and so on” You can find your rank used in the allocations on blackboard

Competition

Your interest in the topic If you like what you are studying you are more likely to do well in your BSc May help you narrow down choices Don’t do a topic you dislike just because the workload is light or you are more likely to get a 1st If unsure what you are interested in: Which lectures interested you most in years 1 and 2 Which conditions or firms have you enjoyed most this year

Relevance to 5th year Some BSc’s will cover content that is useful to know in year 5 and beyond What may be relevant to year 5? Neuroscience – Psychiatry Repro – Obs & Gynae Haematology – Pathology Immunology – Pathology Unlikely to be a deciding factor

Coursework Will do both oral and written content, including: Essays Critical Appraisals Lab projects Poster presentations Articles Designed to give you the various skills needed in academic medicine Consider what you where you want to improve and grow

Lab based Clinical Paper based Skills gained Getting published Projects Skills gained Getting published Lab based Clinical Paper based

Workload Varies a lot between courses Take into account contact time, types of coursework, extra reading What do you want to get out of the year? Heavy workload means you learn more and develop more skills Less workload means more time for extracurriculars, part time work etc

Chance of getting a 1st Obviously everyone wants a 1st! ICSM Gazette has the 1st rates for all current BSc’s online Influenced by internal & external factors Will you get as much out of the course if it’s easy? Very difficult to know how likely you are to get a 1st this year

Chance of getting a 1st

Socials Definitely not a priority! Some BSc’s organise socials with your group (sometimes with supervisors) Sociability of your course is probably more reflective of your group than the course itself What BSc’s are you friends doing?

Useful ways to help choose your BSc Exclude any courses you have no interest in Exclude any courses you are unlikely to be allocated Make a note of what key things you want to get out of your BSc Following the BSc fair, run through the courses you have left and consider how each one fulfils your personal criteria Try to pick at least a top 3 you would be happy to do any if allocated them “Would I regret not doing this BSc?” “The factors that draw me to this BSc, could I find them elsewhere or even outside of a BSc?”

BSc Fair

BSc Fair Go into the BSc fair with some general preferences, and try to read the info on blackboard for these in advance Have a game plan – know what you want to ask and where you want to go so you don’t miss anything Opportunity to speak to the course leads and current students Start with the top preferences and visit their stands, then try to visit as many others after as possible/you would like to

Useful questions to ask For the course lead: Do you know where the course will be located? How many contact hours will there be per week? What will the coursework involve? What kind of projects are on offer? Are they mainly clinical, lab based etc? Is there much scope for a student to come up with their own project? Do students need to do further reading outside of lectures? How often do students get published? How competitive is the BSc normally?

Useful questions to ask For current students: What do you like/dislike about the BSc? Why did you choose the BSc? What would you tell someone thinking of doing the BSc? How sociable is the BSc? Would you do the BSc again if you had the choice?

Humanities, Philosophy & Law Noah Blackmore

This can’t involve real patients Structure Module 1: The Body Module 2: The Mind Module 3: Death & Dying Project This can’t involve real patients

So what is it like? Do you like reading? Are you sure? Are you really sure? Humanities: History (mostly 18th century onwards) Literature, both fiction and non-fiction Art, film and music Philosophy Ethics Law

Mythbusting HPL is the ‘soft choice’ No, it’s different, not easy It’s all airy-fairy/wishy-washy/nonsense There’s a bit of this, but not much It’s easy/impossible to get a first Again, it’s different. It’s about making arguments, not regurgitating facts It’s not a science so you can’t get published MedHums not only has its own journals, but often features in others too

Feedback! – https://tinyurl.com/BScposttalk Thank you for listening! Feedback! – https://tinyurl.com/BScposttalk

How to choose your BSc – Q & A