Elective in Scotland

[samy]

Has anybody done electives in Scotland (Edinburgh / Glasgow?)

 

Any experience to share?

[tooty]

No first hand experience but I've heard that students in the UK system have much less responsibility than we do. They have more years of med school, 2 years of internship, followed by indefinite years of being a medical officer before registrarship. In otherwords their education is dragged out.

 

Clerkship over there is more like a glorified observership here, I hear.

[ldnk]

I'll second the glorified observership standpoint. Their medical education is superior on the whole, but the hands on element of medical training is sorely lacking in the pre-residency years. So much of medicine is about that hands on experience and in a brief two-week elective, I'm not sure how useful it would be. That being said, names do matter in terms of electives and sometimes the opportunity to go elsewhere also = working vacation.