 That was perfect dude, I'll put it in the video. I'll like make sure to zoom in on you, too. Cool. Okay. What is up guys, Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose, I'm joined again by Kenji in this video. We're going to be covering the second question from our MMI series and this video we want to cover why did you choose this medical school or why are you coming to this university. Okay, so there's a lot of points to go through for this question, but one of the important things that I think you should know is the teaching style of the university. So in the UK, if you don't know, medical schools are basically split into two different camps. One is the traditional style of learning, which is where you either do one or two years of lectures and then you go on to do your clinical years where you're in the hospital or GP for more and more time as the years progress. The other type of learning is PBL or CBL, which stands for problem-based learning or case-based learning and it's where students mostly have to do independent learning. They go by themselves and do a lot of research and then come back to the classroom and disseminate that information. So you definitely want to know which one your university does and it's very important to get that right. It's like the minimum you can do to know how it is you're going to be learning over the next five years and you want to make sure that that teaching style is relevant for you. Yeah. Right? So you definitely mentioned like why do you like this particular type of style? So why do you like problem-based learning? Why do you like lecture-based learning? So for problem-based learning you could say like I like the way you can kind of specify your learning into something, you know, if you find something really, really interesting, you can go into a bit more depth, you know, with that as well. Yeah. You could say that I'll enjoy teaching. I like discussing my, you know, my friends. I like teaching them as well and that's something you could definitely include as well. Yeah. I knew that I definitely would not like case-based learning and so I talked about all the pros of traditional learning or didactic learning and yeah, I basically talked about how I really liked being taught to, taking that information by myself and then re-explaining it in my own words, making more notes and things like that. Yeah. So yeah. And like it's one of the problems with case-based learning as well as that, you all have different information whereas in lectures you're all given the exact same information and you're all at the same level. Yeah. So that's what you could say as well. Yeah. One thing you could also say is about the university being involved in research. So for example, at King's, it's a Ross group university and one of the massive things that King's does is produce really high quality research. Yeah. So the preparation for the interview actually memorised like one or two things that the university has really done. So for King's, I think he was like being involved in the discovery of DNA. Yeah. So it would be really cool just to show them that actually you do know what's going on in the university. You do know what type of research is being undertaken in the university. Yeah. And that could definitely buy you a few brownie funds. Mm-hmm. Actually, I did something similar. I memorised the name of a couple of researchers that I was interested in, what they were doing research on and I brought that up in this question saying that this is something similar to the research I've done in the past and I would love to continue that research at your university. Yeah. And also like notable alumni, any alumni you thought were really, really interesting, any work that they did that you could follow up on. I think Joseph Lister, was he from here? Uh, was he? Maybe, maybe not. I'll Google for the course of medicine, as you know, you're going to be on placement for a lot of your years and that's actually where you're going to spend the majority of your time over the course. So you want to know a decent amount about those placements. For example, in Bristol, they would assign you to, I believe it was seven different hospitals across the whole of England. So you were really going to get exposed to a wide range of different types of hospitals, ethnic diversities, populations, things like that. So that was going to be very useful there. For Kings, both me and Kenji talked about how it's an extremely cultural and multi-cultural, what was the first word I said? Cultural. Diversity, the first thing I want to say. Cut. So both me and Kenji talked about how Kings was in central London and so all of the hospitals were going to be very diverse and have a multi-cultural set of patients in them. They're also very, very large. There's going to be lots of patients to see and learn from. Different diseases as well. Loads of different diseases coming around from around the world. Yeah. Different-page demographic, really. Yeah, yeah. So that's something really important to know. Know your placements. Know what the hospitals are that are affiliated with your university and why you like them, why they're a good fit for you. But one of the things that is really important to know is the different types of support systems. So you talk about having like personal shooters and why you think that's really beneficial. Any kind of welfare support. So like financial welfare support, mental welfare support. I think really is important to know when you do come to university how you will be supported if you do need it. Because everyone does sometimes need the bit of support. Everyone needs help at some point. Yeah, definitely. And yeah, having a personal shooter, I think, for me personally, has been amazing. Yeah, that's definitely something you want to mention. Yeah, Kings, for example, in recent years has made a strong push towards improving mental health. So I remember at the beginning of last year they gave us a huge talk about how much support there is for mental health issues. And if you're struggling financially, emotionally, mentally, anything like that, you can go talk to someone. There are those infrastructures in place. So everyone's going to need that at some point in their university career. So it's good to know that that's around. Definitely. And even when you do come a doctor, you want to know what support is available in the hospital. So it always really does apply. So mentioning that was one of the massive points as well. So something that was really important for me when I was applying to medical schools was that I would be able to do the dissections myself. So I know some medical schools do pro-sections. Some other medical schools have holograms and software-based dissection, which I thought was not cool for me. I didn't want that I wanted to have a cadaver that I would be able to cut into that I would be able to learn from. And that was something that I was really, really looking for. One of my friends is at Plymouth and he does dissection through holographic learning. They have a really high-tech facility where you have a holographic image of a body that you can open and cut into and everything. But I just don't think it's the same. And even he tells me that he doesn't learn as well through that and he learns most of his anatomy through books. But I consider being able to cut into a cadaver one of the biggest privileges of attending King's. There's something very important for me. Me too. I think also one of the points you could mention is just to show a bit of your personality and say, I want to go to London because I support Arsenal, Tottenham, you know, web team support and say something like that is around the local area that you're really looking forward to enjoying. Just to add a bit of your personality, something different and say why you actually want to live in that city and see what they say. Yeah, that's a good point. And like, especially for international students as well, like I was coming from Canada. So I also wanted to justify why I was coming to the UK. I could go study in one of many cities. Basically London was a really good fit for me because I enjoyed big cities. I enjoyed all the diversity and culture and everything like that. And talk about how it matches your personality. So I'm a very social person. I love meeting different people. I love meeting people from different backgrounds, different cultures. And that's why London is so amazing for me or whatever reason that you have. Speaking about London and meeting people, one of the things that I really hit hard on for Kings was that it's such a huge medical school. It's I think the biggest medical school size in Europe. So that was very important for me because like you said, we're very social people. I love meeting people. I love going out there and experiencing new things. So having a big university, a big class size was very important to me. I didn't want to go somewhere like Cambridge or Oxford where there's like a smaller class size, smaller tutorials, even one-on-one teaching. I wanted to be surrounded by as many people as possible. Yeah, that's a good point actually. And also just having five different campuses as well. I love how you can walk in between campuses. You can see the cities. And you can meet people from across different campuses. We meet people from Strand and Waterloo. So you meet people from everywhere. And aside from your academics, you can also mention that you love sports, you love societies. So in Birmingham, we had something called the Med Sock, which is like the medical society. In Kings, we have MSA, which is the Medical Students Association. So you could always talk about, like you really want to play football and there's a really, you know, like GKT has the best football team or whatever. GKT people are hardcore. Yeah, for sports. So you guys mentioned, yeah, I want to play sport and I'd love to, you know, to be part of the team. Or you know, you love being part of the Harry Potter society or whatever. Whatever it is. And yeah, because I guess being part of society is a huge part of university lifestyle. And you guys talk about how you want to add to university and you know, bring your own character and bring your own, you know, success as well. Definitely, yeah. Or if there isn't a society available, you can always mention that I'd love to start a society. Because all my friends in my last uni started societies. You can always say that you want to start this society even though you don't want to. I mean, you guys can exaggerate the truth a little bit. Just a tiny bit. Just a tiny bit, yeah. Okay, so long story short, basically you want to say as many unique things about that university as possible. You can always go for the generic ones, but you know, it's not going to stick with the interviewer. And if you talk about your past, your experiences, your extracurriculars, how those fit in with the university, how much is your personality, it's going to be something that's really important and it's going to hit home with them. So that's it for this video, guys. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you guys found these tips useful. If you want to check out Kenji's channel, don't forget to visit him on YouTube. Kenji, Tamita, Vlogs. Come check me out. Follow us on social media, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, everything. 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