help please

[ceedee1]

hey guys,
im a senior in highschool going into college next year majoring in biology and hoping to go to med school. i really wanted to go to attend medical school in the uk. just wanted to know how to go about doing this and if anyone has any advice. im trying to get an early start and learn as much as i can. ive heard that medical school in europe is cheaper and shorter than the schools here in the usa. is this true? please help any advice is greatly appreciated! thanks

[diogenes]

See my reply in the U.K. and Irish sub-forum.

[Stranger Stel]

my advice,

pick some schools, and go to their websites. all your inquiries will be illustrated there. Check out like diogenes said, the sub forums to get a feel for which schools may be better than others, then do your own homework.

i will touch on one point of yours though, im not sure about UK, but you are right in the fact med school is cheaper in europe, EXCLUDING UK and Ireland. If you are concerned about money, but want to go study in the UK....... dont. Even if the price of tuition is comparable, i dont think youll ever get used to paying 5 pounds to take the subway.
Another thing, as i mentioned before....not sure about UK, but med school is NOT shorter than states in europe, all in all ure prolly adding about a year or two.

[!PsyChirurgus!]

US medical education in the US is 4 years long. UK medical education for example is 5 years. 6 years in Czech Republic, Romania, etc.

Tuition fee for International students for example (non -British passport holders/-EU passport holders) is 22650 pounds for pre-clinicals and 33800 pounds for clinicals. In Romania it is 3600 US dollars per year.

Some medical schools in Europe accept your high school diploma alone, obviously depending on the uni. Just browse through this forum and contact the med schools you're interested in. That way you'll get more accurate response. Good luck! :)

[diogenes]

..............Tuition fee for International students for example (non -British passport holders/-EU passport holders) is 22650 pounds for pre-clinicals and 33800 pounds for clinicals. ........
Which U.K. school/s are charging those inflated amounts? It's certainly not typical.

[!PsyChirurgus!]

Which U.K. school/s are charging those inflated amounts? It's certainly not typical.
My fault for not referencing it.
Source: Tuition fees (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/moneyzone/tuitionfees)
What a rip-off.:roll:

[Chemist_11]

Most UK schools you are looking at around £13000 preclinical and £22000 clinical.

[diogenes]

Most UK schools you are looking at around £13000 preclinical and £22000 clinical.
Yes, see my reply to the OP's duplicate post in "uk and irish" here - http://www.valuemd.com/uk-irish-medical-schools/151233-please-help-me.html#post766589

My fault for not referencing it.
Source: Tuition fees (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ugprospectus/moneyzone/tuitionfees)
What a rip-off.:roll:
The problem is you have used just one school to represent the lot, and Imperial seems quite egregious in its fee structure. Here are some more typical examples -
Tuition fees - Undergraduate Prospectus - University of Birmingham (http://www.undergraduate.bham.ac.uk/finance/fees.shtml)
Undergraduate study | Brighton and Sussex Medical School (http://www.bsms.ac.uk/undergraduate/5-year/applying/international.php)
Medicine (5 years) [MBChB] (School of Medicine - University of Manchester) (http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/medicine/)
Undergraduate tuition fees 2007-08 (http://www.sgul.ac.uk/students/money-2007-08/undergraduate-tuition-fees-2007-08.cfm)
n.b. -
Only 2 of the fees are for academic year 2008/9 - most schools have not yet posted these.
One is for another London college - so it's not simply a reflection of London versus the rest.
I've looked at half a dozen others (2007/8) and they're all in the same price bracket.
Brighton appears to have a unitary structure.Whether in future years other schools' fees rise to meet Imperial's remains to be seen. I hope not: it's an appalling differential.

[!PsyChirurgus!]

The problem is you have used just one school to represent the lot, and Imperial seems quite egregious in its fee structure. Here are some more typical examples -
Tuition fees - Undergraduate Prospectus - University of Birmingham (http://www.undergraduate.bham.ac.uk/finance/fees.shtml)
Undergraduate study | Brighton and Sussex Medical School (http://www.bsms.ac.uk/undergraduate/5-year/applying/international.php)
Medicine (5 years) [MBChB] (School of Medicine - University of Manchester) (http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/medicine/)
Undergraduate tuition fees 2007-08 (http://www.sgul.ac.uk/students/money-2007-08/undergraduate-tuition-fees-2007-08.cfm)
n.b. -
Only 2 of the fees are for academic year 2008/9 - most schools have not yet posted these.
One is for another London college - so it's not simply a reflection of London versus the rest.
I've looked at half a dozen others (2007/8) and they're all in the same price bracket.
Brighton appears to have a unitary structure.Whether in future years other schools' fees rise to meet Imperial's remains to be seen. I hope not: it's an appalling differential.
Note to self: Never use gImperial again as an example.:( My example was not meant to represent the whole UK med schools. It was just an random example. Note the time I posted that: '02-23-2008 02:46 AM':bored:.

[Emmahappy123]

My advice: Pick some schools, and go to their websites!

[shrey]

As long as the websites aren't maintained by some sort of an agent...:)