My Last Clinical Rotation of My Medical School Career is in the United Kingdom!
I am an American medical student doing my last medical school clinical rotation in the United Kingdom. How crazy is that? I am currently in ENGLAND! I have been sulking for the past year and a half about traveling and wanting to come to England, and here I am, not just traveling but actually experiencing medicine in the UK.
Here is how it happened:
My medical school sent out a notification about an opportunity to do an elective in the UK in May-ish of 2018. One of my friends brought it up during my family medicine core rotation. Shortly after I emailed my clinical coordinator and said, I WANT IN! After about 10 months of going back and forth with emails, it was finally confirmed that I would be going to a small town in England called Corby (it took forever because I am the first person to be doing this from my school and there is a lot of paperwork involved). Corby, UK holds a portion of a very large practice, called Lakeside Healthcare Surgery [Fun fact: Surgery is an interchangeable word which also stands for “practice” in the UK].
The rotation is a 4-week family medicine elective. I am in my second week of the elective rotation and I am learning so much! I will be sharing my experience and what I have learned. Let’s start with what they call Family medicine. Family medicine = general practice – meh, not too far different. The family doctors are galled GPs (General practitioners) here in the UK.
In terms of the practice of medicine itself, yes, very different. KEEP A LOOK OUT FOR MY POST ON THE DIFFERENCE. It is quite interesting.
However, in terms of travels, living situation and etc, here are the details there:
— Housing is offered by the hospital for $170 dollars/week. It is a townhouse set up that you share with 3 Leicester Medical School students.
— Additional offers with your stay here includes gym and pool membership (which is SUPER nice), and Taxi fairs are provided for you to get back and forth to the hospital and into town, grocery stores. This last one is THE
— The town itself is not big and doesn’t seem to have the greatest reputation, but it is safe and in my opinion, nice. Although, I do have to say the diversity here is SLIM.
— London is about 1.5 hours away by train and train ticket is not expensive.
— In terms of tuition, no additional fees. Of
— There is a
I have been trying to vlog the experience, but it has been hard because I have been getting really involved with life here and it has been just
I am going to end this post here. Come back for more updates on my 4-week elective rotation in England. PS, if you are from my school and want more information, DM me on my IG: @MursiMedical
Much love,
Mursi
