tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post2926969791473657458..comments2023-03-24T12:43:32.932+00:00Comments on It's Complicated: There's a certain irony about having a fire in your fire alarm...Lexie Bellafontehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-14180267135432775262010-12-30T12:10:53.277+00:002010-12-30T12:10:53.277+00:00Hi Anonymous!
Congratulations!!!! I would really, ...Hi Anonymous!<br />Congratulations!!!! I would really, really recommend coming to birmingham. The course itself is really good - it's systems based, mainly lecture based but with classes so you can go over important points again. Generally the teaching is really good, obviously you get a few hopeless lecturers but you generally get that everywhere! You get GP visits every 2 weeks so early clinical contact, which is key! GP days are really good days - the perfect break from the medical school and you get a chance to practice clinical skills and see real patients. That's really important because sometimes you forget that you're doing a vocational degree because there's so much science in the first two years. You also have a little bit of PBL, so a nice mix of teaching styles. The welfare team and system is really good at bham - everyone has a Personal mentor and a medic family with a mum/dad in the second year so you always have someone to talk to. The campus is beautiful, the city is really cosmopolitan and only ten minutes away on the train, we have a train station on campus (two mins walk from the med school). Bham's a really diverse place so you meet people from loads of different backgrounds and ethnicities, both in the med school and as patients, so you see a range of diseases and I think really grow as a person as you're exposed to loads of different cultures. And, of course, everyone's really, really nice! We also have loads of research teams near by, and lots of hospitals in bham, so most of the teaching comes from experts in the field. <br />Disadvantages - they're aren't many. Anatomy is a bit dud compared to other places but we have a new prosectorium and I think they are improving the anatomy syllabus. And you have to remember - bham has had a med school for over 100 years and it's been producing doctors who have been more than competent in their fields so they must be doing something right!<br /><br />I hope this helps :) Thank you so much for commenting - can I ask, how did you find this blog and has it been helpful? Please comment again if you have any more questions or email me at its.complicated50@gmail.com. Good Luck in your a-levels and I hope you chose bham :DLexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-80959999504909309812010-12-30T00:21:35.891+00:002010-12-30T00:21:35.891+00:00hi i have been given an offer from birmingham to s...hi i have been given an offer from birmingham to study medicine next year, i was wondering whether you'd reccomend going to birmingham? advantages/disadvantages? thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-40271243337379096062010-12-06T21:08:17.488+00:002010-12-06T21:08:17.488+00:00Well thanks for stopping by :) Hope you like what ...Well thanks for stopping by :) Hope you like what you read and will continue reading :)<br />Any of his are amazing! Unseen Academicals was his latest Discworld one, that was good. The Sam Vimes ones are good, I think the first one is Men at Arms. Monstrous Regiment is one of my favourite. :DLexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-46311209100119483842010-12-06T20:31:59.605+00:002010-12-06T20:31:59.605+00:00I do a lot of blog hopping- I think that I went to...I do a lot of blog hopping- I think that I went to another blog, sparkling smiles and than got to yours somehow, or to chariots of fire than to yours.<br /><br />Oh forgot Death, HE SPEAKS IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Man I should go get a pratchett book for the hols, which of the last few are extremely funny, the last that I read was making money.SShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189796881493711059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-81125445279652103762010-12-06T18:51:56.053+00:002010-12-06T18:51:56.053+00:00SS, thank you for your comment. Can I ask how you ...SS, thank you for your comment. Can I ask how you found this blog? Pratchett is great, I agree. Moist is one of my favourite characters too, along with Death and Mort. And Sam Vimes. <br />:DLexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-43425928794891673822010-12-05T21:44:20.505+00:002010-12-05T21:44:20.505+00:00Slms.
Just wanted to say people have begun to fin...Slms.<br /><br />Just wanted to say people have begun to find justifications for the permissabilty of music and that we should acknowledge that it's not. Everybody has some sin I'm sure and to repremand someone else is not really constructive. We shouldn't justify our wrong but rather hope that sometime in the future we could reform ourselves.<br /><br />Pratchett is extremely funny, I haven't read much of his books but my favourite characters are Rincewind and Moist Von Lipwig and Conina(but I only know of her appearing as a side character in Soucery)SShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10189796881493711059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-46357756490312447982010-11-17T09:27:22.288+00:002010-11-17T09:27:22.288+00:00Thanks for the comment Anonymous :D
I'm prett...Thanks for the comment Anonymous :D <br />I'm pretty sure I know the reasons I'm upset but don't worry, I've got all bases covered, trust me. Same to you though, if you ever want to talk...<br />Hope IIH wasn't that bad :)<br />xxxLexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-15578043907070763922010-11-17T00:34:19.573+00:002010-11-17T00:34:19.573+00:00My friend works in the waterstones, it is without ...My friend works in the waterstones, it is without doubt the nicest one in the World..<br />I flunked IIH to!<br />Why do you think your so upset? Is it the stress of medschool? That can get to everyone I guess..<br />I so want to help, but I know I really cant. Though seriously If you want to talk I will reveal myself in a flash.<br />Try to push through, uni counselling are god sends and use them. If work becomes a problem work in the library as I found its pretty difficult to cry in there without people staring so it does prevent you from doing that. <br />xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-90522175446997630132010-11-16T17:41:30.311+00:002010-11-16T17:41:30.311+00:00Nooo, Waterstones all the way :) It was so pretty ...Nooo, Waterstones all the way :) It was so pretty and it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside...<br />:DLexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-73807313848900803692010-11-16T12:32:30.142+00:002010-11-16T12:32:30.142+00:00(Why do people act so tough posting anonymous comm...(Why do people act so tough posting anonymous comments on someone else's blog? *Insert c-bomb*)<br />WOW! That was a post on an epic level! <br />EAT COOKIES!<br />And as for the pregnancy scare - I had the same thing happen to me only last week!<br />Ahem.<br />And no! You must dislike Waterstones forever after the death of Borders - ESPECIALLY as it was only a year ago when Borders were practically giving away their stock. Woop =P<br />=)Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04398149165412140194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-50039968002191620762010-11-15T00:41:49.075+00:002010-11-15T00:41:49.075+00:00Lol, those similarities just keep popping up!! At ...Lol, those similarities just keep popping up!! At least you made it to the bed :D<br />Thanks Humaira :) For everthing. <br />*hugs her back*Lexie Bellafontehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06163031738486495406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8646550256480023962.post-64443914780342502492010-11-15T00:31:11.554+00:002010-11-15T00:31:11.554+00:00They refused to take your blood too!?! Mine was be...They refused to take your blood too!?! Mine was because they couldn't find a vein- I got through the tests and everything, ended up on the actual bed thingy, only to be turned away because my veins weren't prominent enough :( lol. <br />Bloody scary stuff- nobody wants a fire alarm that can't cope. <br />You appear to be getting a bit crushed :/ Noooo! Glad you're back- but screw Infection/Immunity. That's what I'm doing now. Or rather, should be doing but am, you know..reading blogs instead, lol. *Moral support virtual hug, which isn't weird because we are the same person*<br />OREOS! Eat as many as are needed for cheer up sugar high :D<br />Hope things look up soon!<br />*waaaaaaaaaaves*<br />:)Hummushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160244218294151650noreply@blogger.com