{"id":718,"date":"2016-03-29T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/mala13\/?p=398"},"modified":"2016-03-29T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:23:07","slug":"choosing-and-applying-for-an-intercalated-bsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2016\/03\/29\/choosing-and-applying-for-an-intercalated-bsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing and Applying for an intercalated BSc\u2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Imperial we are really lucky that everyone gets a guaranteed place on an intercalated BSc course, hence why we are here for a hefty 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>During an intercalated BSc all medical students take a step away from the normal day-to-day life of a medical student and enter the realm of essays and deadlines for a year in 4<sup>th<\/sup> year. At the end of year 4 we all gain a BSc in the course of our choice. Pretty cool. We spend September-Feb in lectures and then have our exams, and then we get to complete a research project (or a short course) for a few months. Very cool.<\/p>\n<p>So a few weeks ago it all really kicked off with choosing what we want to study next year. We had a BSc fair, spoke to loads of students about their experiences and had a roam around online about what it was we really wanted to get a degree in. It was like UCAS all over again.<\/p>\n<p>So what were the options? Cardiovascular sciences, endocrinology, gastroenterology &amp; hepatology, global health, haematology, immunity &amp; infection, neuroscience &amp; mental health, pharmacology, reproductive &amp; developmental sciences, respiratory science or surgery &amp; anaesthesia! You could even apply to other universities (but why would you want to leave Imperial??!)<\/p>\n<p>I went through the courses and ranked the different modules, then eliminated the lowest scoring courses to give me my top 5. I then worked out my order and submitted my application of my top 5 choices.<\/p>\n<p>My top 5 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global Health<\/li>\n<li>Endocrinology<\/li>\n<li>Reproductive and Developmental sciences<\/li>\n<li>Immunity &amp; Infection<\/li>\n<li>Respiratory Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am soo happy to say that I got my first choice and will be studying Global Health next year!<\/p>\n<p>I am really, really excited to get stuck into a BSc course for a year. Will be a nice change! For now, I have only got a few weeks left in the hospitals\u2026and then\u20263<sup>rd<\/sup> year exams. Back to revision I go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 4 is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,98094,98362],"tags":[101013],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-year-3","category-year-4","tag-bsc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}