Imperial College London

Bad experience. Wouldn't have done this iBSC again if I had the chance. Notwithstanding the pandemic this course is poorly designed and I feel pity for the incoming students who will have to sit closed book exams and endure the same false choice of compulsory elective modules, most of which have nothing to do with medical students or indeed pay any attention to the needs or background knowledge of medical students. Course seems to be 10/10 for MSC bioengineers, for the iBSC course its a straight 0/10, don't bother.

This is related to the iBSC course which has a lot of overlap with the others.
While this course is probably great for those with engineering background, it is quite possibly my biggest mistake in medical school. All the elective modules which you can't use existing medical knowledge for just leave you behind. Absolutely no thought whatsoever given to medical students prior knowledge or experience. Sold down the river when we were told this course had taken medical students into consideration. Total joke when you're sat doing final year modules and the module leads dump you straight into the deep end. The group project with third years was the only redeeming factor and even then it was hit and miss due to the pandemic if you managed to get anything done. Recommend 0/10.

Not relevant, but while this department is incredible for engineers, I doubt, as a medical student, that any of the content I've learned this year can really be applied to my future clinical practice. Missed opportunity here.

Tutors were available and were great. But it seems like the faculty did not notice or care for iBSC students. Emails were not replied to. iBSC students were not mentioned in 'whole course' briefings. Module leads seemed to have no idea what medical students had been taught and thus assumed everyone doing the module was at the same level. Only got one email all year from the year coordinator, says it all.