The Aspiring Medics
3 min
Updated: Jan 11, 2023
HYMS adopts a PBL style of learning coupled with early patient contact from week one in first year.
It’s one of the smaller medical schools, allowing students can get to know the people in their year a little better. PBL also helps students closely connected to other medical students throughout the academic year as PBL sessions are held twice a week.
HYMS collects feedback periodically throughout the year to continuously keep track on how it could improve.
Check out the HYMS Medicine MBBS website for information regarding the HYMS curriculum and style of interview.
Ensure that you understand the GMC Good Medical Practice document and different hot topics in healthcare news.
Hull York have a group exercise as part of the interviews, which is quite unique.
The assessors here will want to see how effectively you work in a group and communicate.
Make sure you are able to give clear detailed answers and are able to justify any opinions you give.
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The weekly, early clinical contact from first year is a unique part of the HYMS experience. This really helps to develop your history taking, communication and clinical reasoning ability from early on. Students have found that ‘placement day’ each week is the highlight of their timetable as you can apply the content that you are learning from lectures and PBL to real life patients. In addition to this, students remain in the same PBL groups for the whole year which helps in forming friendships and study groups.
Hull is a busy - ish city with quite a lot to do in the city centre and student area. If you’re living on campus (which most 1st year students do) then the library and medical building are only ever a 5–7-minute walk away which students find super convenient! From the university quarter and campus accommodation, there is Newland Avenue which has a lot of restaurants, shops and takeaways. The main campus of York is just a short distance from the city centre where there is also plenty of activities, restaurants and bars. Being at HYMS means students can be involved in their resident university’s societies i.e. Hull University Basketball Society as well as HYMS specific societies such as MedSoc, Surgical Society, Wilderness Society and more.
At HYMS, students get a university-specific freshers as well as a HYMS freshers which creates plenty of space to make friends with medical students and non-medics too – for example, there is a university Freshers Fair as well as a HYMS Freshers Fair so there’s plenty opportunity to get involved in both. It’s easy to make friends with people from across the university through your accommodations, societies, sports and social events. Both York MedSoc and Hull MedSoc are active in coming up with events for students. There are many great social opportunities at HYMS: the Medsoc and medical society-organised events; events held by accommodation; university events and sports events (both medic sports and uni-wide sports).
The MedSoc puts on events that cater to a range of students such as quiz nights and bar crawls. We also have the Winter Ball and Summer Ball organised by Hull MedSoc and York MedSoc respectively whereby the Hull medical students go over to York for the summer ball and the York medical students go over to Hull for the winter ball! There are even more societies under the wider Medical Society such as Afro-Caribbean Medical Society, Paediatrics Society and Psychiatry Society which students can join and if there’s a society that a student wishes to create, they are able to do so!
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