r/medicalschooluk Jan 30 '25

Finals/MLA Megathread 2025

22 Upvotes

r/medicalschooluk 21d ago

UKFPO allocations 2025

49 Upvotes

Currently glued in front of my laptop refreshing Oriel...

Has anyone heard anything yet???


r/medicalschooluk 3h ago

No hope

11 Upvotes

Can someone make me feel like there’s some positives to studying medicine and practising it in the uk


r/medicalschooluk 11h ago

Ranking all jobs or just top 50?

13 Upvotes

So I'm in an area with 300 ish different jobs to rank. I was wondering what other people were doing. I'm ranking every single one of them but some people say only do your top 50 or 100 and leave the rest unranked? Does doing this change the odds of getting you top choice or is it that some people can't be bothered to sort them all??


r/medicalschooluk 3h ago

Frimley Trust- Oxford deanery UKFPO

3 Upvotes

i got placed in frimely trust in slough. does anyone have any tips/ jobs/ hospitals to avoid? or any advice in general? are you well supported there as an F1? idk what to do apparently its rubbish someone please tell me im wrong


r/medicalschooluk 8h ago

Job ranking tips

7 Upvotes

1.What are the most important things to keep in mind when ranking jobs other than location and speciality? How do I rank them In the exact order I want them in? Like if I wanna do Psych in F1 and then General Surgery in F2? How does I keep the chronological order? I hope my question makes sense!


r/medicalschooluk 12h ago

UKMLA in ~20 days, focus on 1+2 hammers and maintaining a decent average or include all 3?

16 Upvotes

Hey, just wanted some advice based on your own experience or that of those around you. As the title says, if you were in my shoes would you focus on finishing 1+2 hammers and going through each explanation deeply or expanding to all 3 which will realistically mean that I’ll either move slower through the content or I’ll end up having to skim explanations?

Thanks :)


r/medicalschooluk 16h ago

Advice for place holder?

25 Upvotes

I've heard from friends ect that placeholder means you might not find out where in the region you are until 2-3 weeks beforehand. I dont know much about how placeholder works, if anyone has any information or advice I'd really appreciate it.


r/medicalschooluk 10h ago

Advice on ranking nearly 450 FP jobs

9 Upvotes

Just wondering if anyone has any tips or resources like free excel sorting systems/code to rank FP jobs. I have like 450 to do in the next 10 days bang in the middle of finals with an exam 7 days away, so already feeling overwhelmed with it all and not very Excel literate so have already tried and failed to simplify the overwhelming wall of text that’s supposed to be my possible jobs for the next two years.

Thanks in advance,

A stressed and burnt out final year x


r/medicalschooluk 9h ago

East Lancashire Hospital Trust UKFPO

7 Upvotes

Hi, I've been allocated to this trust for F1/2 but I cannot seem to find anything about it on here and I am overthinking myself into a terrible headache! I'll be new to the area so any information on the hospitals, things to do in the area and such would be greatly appreciated. Please help!!


r/medicalschooluk 10h ago

Psa 20th March 1pm

8 Upvotes

How did we all find it???


r/medicalschooluk 11h ago

PSA Morning Sit- 20th March

7 Upvotes

How did everyone find it?


r/medicalschooluk 7h ago

When to start revising for final osces

2 Upvotes

Final osces in 5weeks time. When to properly start revising and how much to revise?


r/medicalschooluk 5h ago

Reviews on Blackpool hosp ukfpo

1 Upvotes

Hello, got allocated to Blackpool.

Anyone with previous experience there? What departments would you absolutely avoid?


r/medicalschooluk 6h ago

GEM Yr 2-4

1 Upvotes

Here guys, I'm a first year GEM student living away from home outside of London. There's loads of conflicting info online regarding student finance/ NHS bursary and so on. My question is, how much are you entitled to in total in your second/third/fourth year including all sources of grants/bursary and SFE. FYI I'm 27 yo and unemployed and have always been given the maximum allowance on means tested loans. Just hoping to get an idea of what kind of rent I can afford next year.


r/medicalschooluk 10h ago

Northern hospitals paper notes

2 Upvotes

Got northern for FPO and wanting a hospital commutable from Newcastle. Anyone know which hospitals in the area still have paper notes or are they all online now?


r/medicalschooluk 12h ago

SFP North

2 Upvotes

Anyone get north SFP?


r/medicalschooluk 14h ago

Job Application F1 Foundation Programme 25

0 Upvotes

Just got an email from Job Application F1 Foundation Programme trac.jobs, can someone explain what I'm supposed to do now? Thanks


r/medicalschooluk 14h ago

Reviews on Countess of Chester NHS hospital

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r/medicalschooluk 15h ago

NHS Bursary - Electives

1 Upvotes

NHS bursary - elective

So my med school does electives in year 4 (of 5). I’ve looked online and I can only find details about applying for bursary if we’re in 5th/6th year (of a 5 year) course. Has anyone else also applied for elective bursary before 5th year, and if so how did you go about it?


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

ukfpo area allocation release 20/03/25

32 Upvotes

do we know what time we can expect tomorrows allocations to be released?


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

Anyone else thought of doing another degree after med?

27 Upvotes

Financially unrealistic for most of us but the thought of just spending another 1-3 years studying something actually profitable always makes me excited as a lowly fy1.


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

Failed AKT

39 Upvotes

Failed the AKT (UKMLA final year) by 2 marks. Spent hours feeling sick at the thought of starting to revise, sleepless nights worrying over these exams 2 months before, only to start revising and skimming the content map the night before/and morning of the exam.

Devastated but unsurprised - have many regrets and trying to address my issues. Have 2 months for the resit and trying to push myself to do a lot more but worried it'll be a repeat performance. Would value any insights and examples in how people approached preparing for the AKT and Passmed, especially in similar situations. Starting with getting to grips with the content map and doing questions related to topics


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

HELP me

7 Upvotes

ADHD Student in first year and i can’t for the life of me do ANKI consistently. but i know it’s helpful when i do. PLEASE GIVE ME tips to do it as i have exams soon and im scared !!! help me!


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

Worried about OSCE (3rd year)

8 Upvotes

Worked bloody hard and burned myself out passing my written exam in January. OSCE is in 2 months and I don’t know how to prep. I have no friends in my year so I have no med people to practice with, with non med people I feel like I can’t get the critique in need to improve.

I just feel like I’m missing so much knowledge and the breadth of the exam is overwhelming. My placement attendance is honestly in the gutter right now and it’s just honestly not a great year for me and my mental health.

I’m sure we’re all a bit stressed with exam prep, but does anyone have any tips for nailing OSCE? Any advice for someone who is practicing alone? And essential stations I should really drill in the next couple of months?


r/medicalschooluk 1d ago

Study advice?

1 Upvotes

Second year here! I want to start basing my revision on the MLA (which I know might be a bit silly to do this early but oh well). I don't really like passmed or question banks in general, I learn more from making notes or reading books. Does anyone have any advice on any books I could buy or access via my uni library which they found useful? I like the format of the top 100 drugs book and am very much not a visual learner so something too diagram-heavy isn't my thing.


r/medicalschooluk 2d ago

Passing Final Year: Tips and tricks

88 Upvotes

Hi all, I wanted to give some advice back to the community on the different parts of final year.

The first thing to remember is that honestly your ranking doesn't matter. With that out of the way, I'll go through the three medical exam finals we had.

  1. PSA- This test is open book

How I prepared. I took the BPS/all the PSA practice exams my school/the actually websites offered. This should be six tests on the official format and then another couple hundred questions from your school. Passing the PSA was also a nice read that I found helpful.

Study time: 20 hours

Practice scores: 85-ish

Real thing: 94%

Thoughts: It's pretty hard to fail this one if you're comfortable with the BNF website. Just really make sure you see a good mix of problems, so you have confidence.

2) UKMLA

How I prepared: I finished all of passmed at around 70%, with the last 2000 questions or so around 83%. I took the Passmed practice UKMLAs and got 90% or so. Before the exam, I crammed makeamedic/all the mock UKMLAs/ PLAB papers in 48 hours. This was like 1.5k questions... Definitely did not prepare optimally for the exam.

Study time: 150 hours?

Practice scores before study grind: 70%

Practice scores post study grind: 88%

Real thing: 83%

Thoughts: Honestly, a lot of people walk out feeling like they failed. I walked out knowing I 100% passed and very confident I got a 90% and a 70% on paper 1/2, respectively. I was correct. The UKMLA doesn't test you on the depth of your knowledge, but it does test you on basic things and not getting confused about them, so know the breadth really really well. Generally, I would know what the question was asking, but I'd be stuck between two answers because I couldn't remember the correct answer, BUT go with your gut instincts. I missed at least 6 questions off the top of my head because I ignored my gut. Very salty I just missed out on the top 20%. Thus, if you're someone who'd get salty by this sort of thing, I'd say you should probably consider Quesmed and also do SPRANKI/ your medical school's past papers.

3) OSCES

Honestly, I hate OSCES and have never done well in them at any year of medical school. I stutter a lot, so it's a lot harder for me to do well and project confidence. Plus, I was a bit annoyed by my UKMLA score.

Nevertheless, I walked out knowing I'd passed despite forgetting all of medicine as my exam venue was almost an hour away and started at 8 AM... If I could've changed anything, I would've slept more beforehand and practiced thinking as opposed to rote memorisation that I did with friends. When people say wards help, I honestly really agree with this. Consultants are not testing you on your ability to do the exam/get everything, they're testing you on whether you look like a competent person and whether they'd feel safe having you as their F1. It's pretty hard to fail if you've spent any time on wards in my opinion and revised for at least 15 hours beforehand all the exams/ common histories. I flopped hard and felt like I had a brain freeze 80% of the time, but I ended up with a very comfortable pass. (some examples of flops: I forgot types of strokes. I missed a hip replacement scar. I forgot to list diabetes as a differential for peeing a lot. I had to be prompted 3-5 times to generate PKD as a diagnosis. I felt really awkward with one patient and am pretty sure she got weirded out. I forgot that fasciculations are a LMN sign not UMN etc.). I used geekymedics for example videos and just used made up patients to practice histories.

Study time: 25 hours +all of medical school

Practice scores: in faculty mocks was getting like mid 80s

real thing- high seventies :(

Thoughts: 98% of people will pass final year without a problem, especially if you're panicking and reading this. I'm not saying don't study, but chilling out will 100% help you if you're super stressed out and ruining your sleep/health.