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Coronovirus - Gamsat MARCH 2020
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taxignorant wrote: »This is why I am coming to it so old, we have mortgage mostly paid and between savings and partners wages won't need the loan. If you can work weekends and study at night and work over the summers it might work out? This may involve living at home or with a relative. Can you get networking with others from your class to share accomodation to reduce costs?
It's hard to stomach living hand to mouth for four years and then handing over a chunk of not amazing wages to pay off fees.
Another option is Derry next year. The fees are so much more affordable. It's heartbreaking to hear you get in but might not be able to afford.
Gamsat is valid for the two years could you save your butt off and do 2022?
In terms of working and studying, people are doing it. As someone said they are locuming or you could give leaving cert grinds?
I sat the GAMSAT in March 2019 and I turned down a place in Limerick last year. I got an offer for Limerick this year. But the finances scare me, also I wasnt intending to do medicine this year, I was going to do a conversion into psychology until I found out the actual expense that goes into it (you work full time for free for a year, you pay to do your PhD etc) so I found a really nice cheap place to live in dublin. I left my job and I've paid the deposit and first months rent in Dublin, truth is Ive wanted to live in Dublin for years. I was considering maybe taking this year as a year off slightly, I can work part time and do evening courses in things like history and acting and philosophy, things I've never got to study before. And possibly applying for Derry for 2021 entry as it's cheaper but I'm also worrying that this is a stupid decision as a. If I do get Derry I will be going into my first year where if I had taken the course last year I would be going into my third year. B. There's no guarantee I'd get Derry. I got an interview and put on the waitlist with Nottingham in 2019, it's a fricking nightmare in someways, the GAMSAT is only the first step in the application, you have to have done loads of healthcare and hospital experience which seems difficult to get in the ROI, you need references, a personal statement and then the dreaded MMI stations. It's like an exam and your competing against everyone else you are sent into a room and presented with a scenario that requires knowledge of how the NHS works and the rules and repercussions and like how to handle nasty co workers or a teenager who is a Jehovah witness needs a blood transfusion, she wants it, her parents don't, what do you do, and things around medical ethics, and talking about conflict or very specific incidents from your health care work experience, has to be health care work experience, not regular work experience. You have like 13 if these rooms all with different scenarios and are timed in each one and then are relayed to the next station. I know this is what they use to examine actual med students, but it's difficult and I feel like the UK students definitely have an upper hand due to their ability to get work shadow experience easier and just working knowledge of the NHS.
So idk if I'm just bei g stupid putting off medicine with the hopes of Derry next year. My GAMSAT is only good for this year for the CAO but I get another year out of UCAS. I emailed Derry years ago about their program and they still update me every few months. Plus part of what is making me hesitant, other than already having a room rented in Dublin that I am due to move into in like 2 days, and that I don't particularly like or want to move to Limerick, is that I know too many doctors, and are all are super negative about a career in Medicine, and the hours, the hours scare me, but truth is no job is ever going to be 100% what you want to do. But the fear if what if this isn't right for me, it's so expensive, etc.
Gahhhhhhhh
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Urethra Franklin. wrote: »I sat the GAMSAT in March 2019 and I turned down a place in Limerick last year. I got an offer for Limerick this year. But the finances scare me, also I wasnt intending to do medicine this year, I was going to do a conversion into psychology until I found out the actual expense that goes into it (you work full time for free for a year, you pay to do your PhD etc) so I found a really nice cheap place to live in dublin. I left my job and I've paid the deposit and first months rent in Dublin, truth is Ive wanted to live in Dublin for years. I was considering maybe taking this year as a year off slightly, I can work part time and do evening courses in things like history and acting and philosophy, things I've never got to study before. And possibly applying for Derry for 2021 entry as it's cheaper but I'm also worrying that this is a stupid decision as a. If I do get Derry I will be going into my first year where if I had taken the course last year I would be going into my third year. B. There's no guarantee I'd get Derry. I got an interview and put on the waitlist with Nottingham in 2019, it's a fricking nightmare in someways, the GAMSAT is only the first step in the application, you have to have done loads of healthcare and hospital experience which seems difficult to get in the ROI, you need references, a personal statement and then the dreaded MMI stations. It's like an exam and your competing against everyone else you are sent into a room and presented with a scenario that requires knowledge of how the NHS works and the rules and repercussions and like how to handle nasty co workers or a teenager who is a Jehovah witness needs a blood transfusion, she wants it, her parents don't, what do you do, and things around medical ethics, and talking about conflict or very specific incidents from your health care work experience, has to be health care work experience, not regular work experience. You have like 13 if these rooms all with different scenarios and are timed in each one and then are relayed to the next station. I know this is what they use to examine actual med students, but it's difficult and I feel like the UK students definitely have an upper hand due to their ability to get work shadow experience easier and just working knowledge of the NHS.
So idk if I'm just bei g stupid putting off medicine with the hopes of Derry next year. My GAMSAT is only good for this year for the CAO but I get another year out of UCAS. I emailed Derry years ago about their program and they still update me every few months. Plus part of what is making me hesitant, other than already having a room rented in Dublin that I am due to move into in like 2 days, and that I don't particularly like or want to move to Limerick, is that I know too many doctors, and are all are super negative about a career in Medicine, and the hours, the hours scare me, but truth is no job is ever going to be 100% what you want to do. But the fear if what if this isn't right for me, it's so expensive, etc.
Gahhhhhhhh
It’s a dilemma. Did you apply to UCC? I think it’s the style of learning in Limerick that puts people off, it doesn’t suit everyone! It’s a nice city! You could get Dublin in later rounds? There could be a shift in points yet0 -
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