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is it good for anything at all?
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Which courses should I apply for?
I need some advice, Mature Student vs Graduate?

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 07:13 PM PDT

So I was wondering how other people at other hospitals are responding to BYOD.

At work (at a small hospital) we have to use TigerText on our personal cellphones if we wish to use them at work, this is because TT is HIPAA compliant meaning the text messages auto delete and don't remain on the phone so if it is lose or stolen, the messages can be made public.
I recently got a text from tigertext saying that they now have a pager feature called Tigerpage, they give you a phone number that is a pager number and if you give the number to someone, when they call it, the' page' goes to your phone through tigertext and it beeps and you get the message and call back #

I can see it is useful for doctors, staff and admin but what about normal people?
Not many people use pagers, and with today's phones it is hard to tell if one form of communication (a call, email, text message, voice mail or page) from another in a sense.
Besides doctors, plumbers and others, who else would want to use a pager verses a voice mail?
I don't respond to all of my voice mails, I respond to a text message or a call, more then I respond to a voice mail, would I respond to a page like I would a phone call?
Anyone else see an advantage to pages?

is it good for anything at all?

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:41 PM PDT

Greetings!

I've taken my UKCAT today and I got:

vr:520
qr:610
ar:620
da:620

It gives me a total of 2370.

Is it worth trying for any universities?

aide

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:11 AM PDT

bnjour tt le monde je voudrais que vous maidiez a avoir des renseignements sur cette ecole de formation bref jaimerais minscrire

Which courses should I apply for?

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Anyone with more experience than me got a moment to give me some advice? I'm thinking about which courses to choose for UCAS, I prefer graduate courses but really I just want the best shot getting into medicine here.

Have a 2.1 degree in animal behaviour and welfare - is a science degree but not a hard core one. Volunteered part time in a hospital for about a year, volunteered part time with special needs kids for about a year, currently doing part time work/volunteering looking after special needs foster kids. Must have been doing that for about a year.

Did a gamsat - got a 55 average (think it broke down to - 61, 56, 53). Doing it again next week and hoping for a higher score, but of course can't make guarantees.

Doing the ukcat after the gamsat. Honestly not hoping for huge things with that one as I have a processing disorder that makes my reaction time slower than others - it really seems to show through in the ukcat. Last year when I tried it I got about 550 I think, but thought I'd give it a go just in case.

A-levels were CCC, D for human biology and in a more recent A-level I got a B for chemistry. So think I need to go for courses that don't take A-levels into account.

Swanseas on the list and maybe nottingham. Any ideas of where else would give me the greatest chance of getting a place?

I need some advice, Mature Student vs Graduate?

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:37 AM PDT

Just looking for some advice on what I should do, just from your opinions. I've had a read around this site and it's been extremely helpful and motivating :)

Ok so my situation is a fairly complicated one but I'll try and explain it and keep it short. I'm 18, wanted to do medicine since school, did well in my Standard Grades (all 1s) and then everything sort of fell apart. My mum got unwell and I was looking after my siblings as my dad doesn't deal with stress well and spent all day in the pub. I did awful in my Highers because I didn't study enough, I got BCCCC and then I resat 2 and took 2 new Highers in S6 and got ABBD.

I got into uni but not to do the course I wanted at the uni I wanted as I couldn't leave home. To cut a long story short I'm hating it and I'm still struggling with everything going on outside of studying, working all the hours god sends and still not doing very well. I can't see myself getting a good score in my degree and I don't want a career in that particular field at the end of it.

I'm seriously considering dropping out and applying to the armed forces or merchant navy, it may not be medicine but it's a career I'd probably enjoy. If say 7 years down the line I still wanted medicine, could I go to college and do Highers or an access course and apply that way?

Thanks for taking the time to read this :)