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OK, guys. Um So I think we're gonna make a start. So, first of all, welcome. Uh welcome everyone. Thank you for um thank you for attending today. Um So just a quick bit um about the structure of this talk cos I think it's a little bit unusual compared to what um what most people are U are used to. So we're gonna start off um with William who's gonna take us through um a bit of an introduction, gonna talk about the structure um and just some general pointers uh things to look out for in terms of workload, um that kind of thing. Um who's then gonna continue and talk about anesthetics quickly. Um But for a lot of you guys, obviously, because there's so many BSC S, uh we're gonna be going through them one by one. So please check the schedule which is in the chat. Um And you can see an approximate time for when the BSE um when we're gonna have a speaker for the BSC. Um So obviously feel free to leave and kind of rejoin. Um The only thing I would say of course is um the schedule isn't gonna be 100% accurate and there might be some changes. Um Although I try and do my best to uh take breaks if needed or speed things up as well. Um So I would advise, you know, kind of joining 1015 minutes early just in case. Um uh Yeah, I get and also ideally, um it's gonna be quite interactive. Uh So I'm not sure. So in terms of questions and stuff, um please put them in the chart and then our speaker will do the best to, to answer them, um, feel free to do that kind of at any time. Um, although the, the speakers might either answer it straight away or come back to it in the end. Um, but yeah, I think that's probably enough for me. Um, I'm gonna hand over to, er, William who's gonna do the, er, the introduction um, and take us through to anesthetics as well. Thanks. Ok. So, uh yeah, hi guys. My name's Will. Uh I'm one of the fifth years, I'm currently doing obs and down at Chelsea and I did anesthetics her be, um, but the reason that I'm speaking about the intro to the BSE isn't because I'm a brilliant speaker, but it's because it's first alphabetically. So I'm just gonna run some things through about the kind of general structure, um, the kind of assessment side of things, uh the pastoral side of things. I'm gonna try and hit on some points that maybe faculty haven't necessarily got around to with you guys. Um, the stuff that I kind of would have liked to know going into my ear. Um So if you can change your slide. Yeah. So, uh kind of, what's the point is my first kind of topic? So obviously some people get a bit annoyed at the fact that it's essentially an extra year on top of what is already a long five year course. Um I think it's really important to consider that it gives you some hugely important skills uh that you wouldn't really get anywhere else in the program. It gives you research skills, writing and presentation skills from your assessment. Uh It gives you a lot of independence and you have to kind of learn to organize your time like you haven't really had to before, especially when it comes around to project season and you've got these long kind of this long 14 week period and you have to kind of plan it all out. Um, and it also gives you another degree on your CV, which is never a bad thing. Um I think also it gives you exposure to a very significant field of medicine, which is academic medicine that you are most likely going to become involved with at some point in the future, especially if you end up pursuing a competitive specialty or a surgical specialty, er, or something like that. And I also think it's nice to have a break from clinical medicine. Um, third years can be fun, but ultimately, you've been learning about clinical medicine for a pretty long time. Now, I do think it's nice to take a step back and kind of have a look at the reasons why we practice in the way that we do. I personally found fourth year hugely interesting at the start. Yeah, I have no idea how to kind of properly read or critique a paper. Uh Let alone what we did in January, which is surgery stack of them for a lit review, er, or essentially you write your own when it comes around to me, um learn a lot if your BSE is well taught about the pros and cons of the ways that we conduct research, uh kind of implementing, implementing scientific findings into everyday practice, uh and also the publishing system as a whole. Uh and it has a lot of flaws and if your BS E is well taught, you'll probably never look at a mainstream news article to talk about medicine or medical research in the same way again. So next slide like, so, um I'm assuming you guys are probably pretty familiar with the general structure by now. Um So I'll kind of try and hit on some specific points that maybe faculty hasn't got around to yet. Uh And I know everyone always likes to know about assessments as well. So I'll kind of have a, have a small focus on those. So we've got module one which is taught. Uh module two is like self directed essentially. And then you've got module three, which is your project module. Um I think module one is a really nice module and it settles you into everything really, really well. Um It has this lovely split where you basically have three weeks of teaching. Um which for most vs es obviously, I can't speak for all of them, but for me, it was three days a week of in person stuff and that was from 10 till three. So really not particularly intense at all. And then you'll kind of have this one off week to work in your ICA S. Um Firstly, don't, don't waste it, like try and get stuff done in good time if you're not sitting there at midnight on like a Thursday evening, cobbling together, something that vaguely resembles a viable ICA. Um, but also, especially for those first couple of ICA S, that's quite a lot of time to put stuff together. So just relax, don't stress and kind of like take it easy at the same time as kind of actually doing stuff. Um And again, in a lot of BSE S, the tool content is useful, but it's not necessarily something that you're going to be directly examined on. Um But I would say, listen, when the word assessment pops up, the BSE teams are generally pretty good teachers and they're generally interested in the stuff that they speak about. They're at kind of the forefront of research uh in their respective areas. Um They want you to do well and generally they will give you plenty of time to prepare stuff. So, next slide, so obviously, all of this is subject to change if you changed since last year. Uh This was my experience and I'm pretty sure this stands for all BSE S except for management bio and I'm including this. Not because it's something that you need to stress about right now. Um But because I think it's something everyone likes them to know about. Um And the key thing here is each assignments weighted differently ICA one and two or 4.5% IC three is just about 20%. Your lit review is 15% science and context is 10. Uh Your project report is 35 and your oral presentation is 10. Don't commit those to memory because you can find them anywhere. Um The kind of key takeaways, firstly, if you look at I CS one and two, they're each 4.5%. That's really not very much. And that doesn't mean that you just again put zero effort into it. Um But essentially don't be disheartened. If you get a mark on it, that's lower than what you would have wanted. Um Loads of people myself included have their ICA one mark being far lower than anything else they get in the course So, yeah, don't, don't stress out if you find ICA one a little bit tricky or you get a lower mark on it that you would have wanted because it will just get better. It's very kind of new stuff and you're not used to writing these big assignments. So that's completely fair. Um, and I've highlighted that, I see three in the project report as well. Uh, because together they're worth only 60% of the BSE and everyone puts a massive shift into doing their project report. But I think it's worth saying kind of at this point that I would also say it's worth putting 100% effort into that kind of ICA three week in December. Um, if you kind of don't put effort into that one and muck it up, you can kind of end up going into your write up period in May for your project, needing a mark in the seventies for your projects if you wanna get first, er, which is very much feasible. Um, but you'll need to get good su good kind of feedback from your supervisor. Um You'll need to be really on top of everything and I went into my write up knowing that I only needed a mark in the low sixties essentially to get first and having that knowledge and that kind of like, er, that kind of like buffer is a huge stress reliever. Uh And just one more note on assessments, um The kind of gold dust in your BSE A is old years ICA S like, genuinely, these are, these are such good sources of inspiration when you're writing your own things. Even if they got a bit of a rubbish mark, it can give you an idea of how these assessments can be structured and put together. Um And again, if you don't have any ICA S from old years from your own BSE, like get them from other BSE S as well because again, most BSE S are structured in a very similar way. I didn't really have many anesthesia example ICA S, but I had a couple from farm and gastro and these are still massively useful. Um So, yeah, next slide. So that's kind of it for the academic side and I wanna talk a bit about the kind of pastoral kind of welfare side of things. Um So I had this great idea to kind of show my stress levels throughout the BSC year, er, turned out not that great cos it's not very pretty and it would probably give a graphic designer a headache. Um but it does function. So the green parts are where this all goes. Like it's nice and relaxed, chilled out. The yellow parts are where we're a little bit stressed. Maybe we've got a couple of ICA S kind of sitting on the back burner but it's all OK. And then those red parts are like serious stuff. Um And the kind of key takeaway that I want you to have is not so much the red parts. Um Although there are a few and I will say that I'm pretty confident that those kind of 24 to 48 hours before the final project deadline is probably the hardest I've ever worked. But I want you to more take away the green parts. The vast majority of this diagram is green. I had a great time in fourth year. Um And I was able to balance academics, extracurriculars, sport, my own interests and all of that better than I think I ever have done before in medical school. Um And there's really no reason why you wouldn't be able to do that as well. Um Again, you kind of have to manage your time quite well in fourth year or you kind of learn to manage your time quite well. Um And this is a really, really good skill and it's a great opportunity to get involved in whatever you're interested in before you get to fifth year and they throw like 70 sign offs at you and try and get you into hospital as much as possible. So please do take advantage of them. Um So yeah, next slide. Finally, my kind of summary is this um you're going to be fine and you're going to enjoy this year. Um I think the best thing to do is get involved with your BSE, turn up to lectures like develop good rapport with the lectures and stuff like that. But also like, don't take it like, I mean, do take it seriously but don't just like commit your entire just life to it, like have fun, go play sports and go do things that interest you. Um But yeah, have a great year. So that's it for the kind of general side. So I'm now gonna talk a little bit about anesthetics specifically and I'm just gonna get my notes up, just give me one second. All right. So, yeah, thanks for um for that. That was a really a reassuring introduction. Uh I think for, for everyone. Um Yeah, again, any questions guys feel free to ask? Um Yeah. Uh Let me just show. Yeah. OK, fine. Um OK. Yeah. So uh this is kind of anesthetic side. Yeah, my name is Will I did anesthesia. Um And I believe you guys have already started. Um So I'm gonna try and base this around again, stuff that I would have found useful to know at the start of the year. Um So I picked anesthesia because I really enjoyed my anesthetics rotation in third year and I kind of thought, OK, I wanna explore like anesthetics out of the career path. Um And I kind of suspect there'll be a few people here um who also did this, the first thing I wanna mention. Not so, not so much on a negative note, but it's not necessarily gonna give you that kind of exposure that you want. Despite the name of the course, the content is actually pretty critical care heavy. Um Mike Wilson, who was the course lead last year and I assume it is still the course lead um is a really good teacher and he specializes in mechanical ventilation and ventilates, reduce lung injury, uh from what I can remember which are kind of present in anesthetics, but more so on a kind of ICU side of things. Uh and a lot of the other lecturers are also more kind of critical care leaning than anesthetics leaning. Um This isn't necessarily a bad thing as you'll learn, these are very much two sides of the same coin we're taking over some of the basic life functions of the patient like breathing. For example, when we put them on a ventilator, uh the difference being whether this is caused by pathology in the ICU or if we're kind of putting them to sleep for surgery and anesthetics. Um And again, the the talk content for me at least was pretty much only lectures rather than any clinical exposure. Um but I mean, this is kind of to be expected in a science degree but do just be prepared for that and bear that in mind. Um a little bit about the kind of structure and the ICA S and stuff like that. So in module one, for me, at least uh the ta content that they they taught me wasn't really directly examinable. Um It was basically kind of completely irrelevant to the topics that I had for my ICA one and two. Don't take this as an limitation. It's like not turn up. Uh I 100% think, especially because the schedule is pretty nice unless it's been changed, just like turn up to everything, develop a good rapport with the lecturers. Um because this helps, especially when it gets around to project selection time. Um For context module, one taught us a lot about kind of pathophysiology behind anesthesia, uh like ventilator induced lung injury, some stuff like A R DS. Er But my ICA one was essentially to critique a paper studying pros and cons of two different epidurals. Um And my ICA two was a presentation on differences in pain treatment based on gender. Um So yeah, you kind of, you don't need to sit there making like an flashcards and revising them um for those lectures. So yeah, don't, don't worry about that. Um And then in IC three, which is the one I mentioned earlier, I think it is worth touching on what this actually is. Essentially we got a set of data and a brief description of the methods of the experiment which kind of led to this fictional data. And essentially you were asked to like write up a paper as this as if this were your own research. Um And embarrassing. I actually thought this was quite, quite good fun and I quite enjoyed the task until it got some time to cut 1000 words out. Um I think it is interesting. Er, but the important thing to just consider is everyone gets the same methods brief or at least they did for me. So it's the same experiment but you will get different sets of results. So if your mates sitting there with like, oh, I got like statistical significance for this result and you're sitting there thinking hm my P value is like naught 0.4. Like, don't worry about that, that's fine. Um So don't just like copy each other. Uh in terms of module two, I know a lot of people think module two can be a bit rough. This is like the lit review one. I'm gonna focus on lit review cos everyone always stresses loads about lit review. Um Essentially you'll be given like a research topic. So mine was extraction methods from retrospective data for electronic identification of A R DS. Honestly, I'm still not really sure what this means. Um But you'll work together as a group of like four or five, you social, you'll write a review. Um And my kind of two pieces of advice for this will be firstly, obviously, it helps if you've got a good group but like try and work in person as a group, like go to the library or like go to South camp and stuff and you'll develop so much better as a group and you'll get so much more done than if you will just, like, sit at home on your computers. Um, so try and do that if you can. I really think it helps my group because again, despite I read back our review, uh, and I'm not, I'm really not convinced of how, how good the actual content is, but I think we wrote it very well and it was very smooth and our whole process was pretty good. Um So I think, I think it is worth considering that. And secondly, you'll get a supervisor ple review, ask them for help, like we had a lot of help from our supervisor. Uh and this is usually useful. So don't just sit there thinking that they're not supposed to do anything cos that is their job. Um And the last kind of main thing that I wanna talk about is uh project selection, right? And uh everyone always stresses a little bit about project selection. Um And you've always got, you've always got a few people who have got like a self organized project ready by like week three or something. And if that's you, that is obviously absolutely fine. If there's a specific topic that you're really interested in, in anesthesia and critical care, then absolutely go and organize your own projects. But what I will also say is uh there are plenty of really good projects available for selection Um, and if you like a lecturer or you like the topic that they've lectured on 100% tell them, like, tell them in person after the lecture or drop them an email. Genuinely. They will appreciate your enthusiasm. Er, my supervisor was Matthew. I assume he's still involved but you might not meet him until later. I essentially really enjoyed a couple of his talks in December. Uh, so I went up to him after the lecture, um, and got his email address and I said, like, are you running any projects? Um, and he said, yeah, these are the ones I'm running and that was that. Um, so if there is a topic or a lecture that interests you, like, do get in touch, um, almost done a couple of, kind of extra things, one on the social side of things, like go out and do a few things as a group. Like, it's nice to do that. You're part of a smaller cohort instead of sitting there in like a sweaty 400 person lecture theater. Um, like, take advantage of it. It's generally a pretty nice group that ends up doing anesthetics. Um, so, yeah, kind of enjoy it because you only really have that until December when you will get split up into small groups for li review and stuff. Er, and finally because everyone always stresses about this, uh, a quick note on plagiarism. Um, yeah, everyone always gets really stressed out about this and it doesn't help that last year. Uh One of the BS ESI think it was pharmacology had this whole plagiarism crisis, cos people ended up copying all the A ICA S too closely, uh which was partly faculty's fault because they were naive enough to think that if they just gave people the exact same ICA year after year after year, there wouldn't eventually be issues. Um So, I mean, firstly, obviously don't copy people's ICA straight up. Um But my general attitude towards plagiarism is this like, firstly, just do what they say, complete the kind of survey and stuff. But if you don't plagiarize, you can't be caught for plagiarism. Don't copy and paste anything, don't just copy all ICA S like use them for inspiration, but write everything yourself and c stuff where something you've written isn't just common knowledge. Um But yeah, that's, that's me done. Um If anyone has any questions, I haven't put it up there, but my short code is W JL 20. Um if you wanna drop an email or anything. Um But yeah. Um Yeah, thanks. Uh Thanks will. Um That was really good. Um I was hoping as well if you just, if you could hang around for a couple of minutes as well, just um in case anyone has questions and also I'll um unless you're opposed, I'll pop your short code in the chat as well. Yeah. And yeah, otherwise, thanks very much. Um And so next um we're gonna have um Dominic um come and er, speak briefly about uh biomedical engineering. Um So I'll, I'll hand the stage over to him. Oh, yes, thank you. Can you all hear me? Fine? Yeah, we can hear you. Perfect. That's amazing. Ok, perfect. Well, first of all congrats to, to everyone for making it, especially on this rainy day, but this is gonna be about Byron, so slightly different to all the I CS and everything else you get to hear about tonight. But it's still a fascinating course and I absolutely love my time on it. So, yeah, con on doing your summer course. I imagine it must have been a bit of a pain, but that's done now. So you get to experience the fun stuff. So I'm not really gonna talk too much about it. I'm sure you'll have a lot of lectures talking you through the structures, what to pick, what not to pick. So I'll just give you like my top three pointers when it comes to bio. So the first one would be just to embrace the diversity of bio engineering. So this is a super diverse psa in my opinion, in the first month, you get to dive and explore as much engineering as possible. So if you feel like sticking close to med completely, you're totally free to do that. If you feel like venturing out and doing something absolutely different, be my guest like that. That, that's your best opportunity you've got go and take it, learn as much as possible. Explore as many options, really use that diversity that the that the course offers the flexibility, the course offers you. So like you get a lot of options to choose your modules. So in this one, I'll probably just highlight the importance of choosing wisely. So for example, if you're choosing modules, which will be fairly soon for you, um just really sit down and read through what the topics are. Because if you end up picking a topic that you hate, you will struggle with the module. That's something I did. So that would be my biggest step is just honestly pick something you enjoy or can imagine sa few hours into just to get the stuff done and also on the caveat, it's always good to pick a project that perhaps that's the assessment aligns with your strengths. So for example, some modules are more exam based, written exams while others rely on like more presentations and pro and projects. So if you're better at presenting or working on projects, then probably that's gonna be your best bet. But if you're also very written papers, there is no harm in choosing that over the other. And probably the last biggest step I can give you is start your group project early. I honestly cannot stress this well enough. Um uh The amount of stress I had just because we started that group project late can be just safe if you just plan accordingly honestly. So just get on with your group um split up tasks, make sure that the sort of group call is quite clear because a lot of people can get bogged down in details that aren't that important. And just really make sure that it's clear what you as a medic can go do in the group because you most likely will be assigned with bioengineer who will have different sort of skill sets. So it's always good to just to let them know what you can and can't do cause sometimes they expect you to do stuff, but perhaps you're not really comfortable at or I haven't done at all. Um This is not to say that you shouldn't do something you haven't done before. Totally be my guest, go for it. But if you want to perhaps do something that you're more familiar with or perhaps what the, the bioengineer cannot contribute to the group, then that's also a good option. Again, as I said, just get on a group meeting with them, talk through what your kind of goals are, talk, you talk through what your strengths are and just really kind of divide, divide up the rules, make sure that everyone knows what's happening. So this is really wrap it up, um enjoy the flexibility, make the most out of it. We use the diversity, the course offers you. So just explore as much as you want honestly, if you want to take some time off as a fairly relaxed PSE, you'll hear a lot of people saying by engineering is so intense that it's the most difficult PSE that is not the case, there will be some difficult parts. I mean, that's just normal for any PSE but you'll have a lot of free time. So if you want to go traveling, if you want to do work for societies, if you want to do more bioengineering work or even, I don't know, study for the U assembly, totally, you can absolutely do all of that because you'll have more than enough time. And just the last positive note to stay on that moment, people telling you it's super difficult, hold you back. I mean, a lot of like the medics I was with actually ended up getting great, amazing scores. So it's definitely possible to do good in this uh co course without having to absolutely work super hard. 24 7. So that's everything I really wanted to say and I'm open for any questions if in case anyone's has any ideas what they wanna ask about. Um uh Thanks Dominic. Um I just, I was just thinking while we wait for any questions um just to maybe a couple of quick follow ups. Uh I was just wondering in terms of when you, when you kind of, so you mentioned it's relatively easy going. Er, but I was just wondering when the more difficult bits you thought were like time wise. Um And also if you, if you m obviously it's quite different if you wanted to mention any er like resources or things like that um that, that helped or, or if not, no worries, we also resources. Um A lot of it will be provided by the faculty themselves. They're quite good at that. Plus, as was said before, older years, are your sort of gold mine? Uh ask us as much as possible. We've gone through it. We know what's been happening. So just feel free to ask us for advised materials. Anything along those lines, I'm sure we'll be more than happy to help with that. When it comes to the intensity of the course, it all varies depending on people because depending on what modules you pick, you'll have different sorts of deadlines, but most of it will, the most intense, at least batch of work will happen usually in January before your exams and then the second set of exams which is in May, those tend to be like those sort of difficult time periods. But other than that, it's fairly sort of lenient and you can like get away with taking a few days off as long as you're kind of modules permit because each one of them will have different projects, different deadlines. So just that's just something to be aware of. Ok. Um Yeah, thanks for that. Um So, I mean, I guess if there's any questions right now. Um I, we can um move on although like, like for William as well, if you can stay around for a couple of minutes, that'd be great. Um And also if you're happy to totally up to you, um I think it'd be nice to if you pop your electric code in the chat. Oh, will do um Fantastic. Um Thanks so much for that, Dominic. No worries. Thanks. And, and so, uh with that, uh we will move on to uh Cancer Frontiers. Um And today we've got Adrian who's going to, who's going to be speaking about that. Um So, yeah, cheers. Uh Thank you, Lennon. Um So my name is Adrian. Um Currently 1/5 year med and I did Cancer Frontiers last year for my BSE um just to kind of lead off. Um I've uh Cancer Frontier has kind of been an underrated, er, be to do in the past. But, well, I'm quite happy and I'm sure the, the cancer team is quite happy to see that it's increasing popularity in the last few years and I'm just kind of here to give um everybody some insight into how your year is kind of going to go from here and why, um I feel like, you know, the subscription is, I guess quite justified in a way. Um So first and foremost, everybody else has talked about kind of the general structure. So I won't go over that again. Uh there are a couple of points that I kind of want to address uh with regards to the ICA S. So, firstly, for ICA three, um this is for the cancer frontiers group, this is in the form of results compendium. So you're going to write basically a lab report, of course, not as long as your BSC report, but it will be um quite, it can get quite tedious at times because you basically will be producing a fully fledged lab report. And the difficult part is in Jan, a lab report, but it will be actually based on an actual lab week that you will do. I'm not sure whether they've removed it this year. But last year, basically, um we actually spent um a whole week um doing block three of our first module. So the last second to last week or third to last week of our module one, we spent one whole week in a simulation lab. So like in actual labs with pipet and everything and F pos and cupboards and all that in the basement of the um of Hesor Hospital, kind of trying to get data for our lab uh for IC three. And so this uh back at the time that actually did lead to quite some issues because firstly for the lab, we were split into groups, so groups of three or four. And the issue was even though the experiment we were trying to do was the same, everybody ended up with kind of like quite different results and that was definitely mostly probably in part two are really bad pipetting skills. But at the same time, the whole lab week was kind of if you imagine trying to actually write a project from scratch, um do and then write to a product from scratch in the span of about 1 to 2 weeks is really going to take a toll on like your kind of time management during that week. So um as everybody previously has said, it is actually the B AC is quite a chill year. If anything, modules one and two are definitely quite free structured. We also only had like around 3, 2.5, 3 days of lectures per week in module one, but there is a lab week where it will be in your best interest to go in every single day just because if you miss out on some type of lab technique or progress with your group, of course, you can ask your group mates for like what they, what they've done previously, but you will be kind of missing out on lots of lab techniques as well as you know, you won't know what's going on basically because everybody else will be too busy to update you with what's actually happening. So if there is a light weekend this year, that's definitely something to keep in mind and it will count towards your IC three. So um there's a reason that, that kind of like counts so much in terms of like in terms of the cancer frontiers BSC. So, besides the IC three, I generally do Echo. Um what um everyone has said so far about the second module um in cancer, it's kind of similar. Uh I do encourage people to at least meet up a couple of times over the course of doing your group literature review um because it's just much better to kind of discuss things in person. Um As I've said, and um versus, you know, the individual component like I like to think about during module two, which is your science and context presentation that can very much be done on your own terms. So once you've kind of got most of the nitty gritty group literature stuff out of the way, you're definitely free to use your time um at your own convenience, you know, maybe take a quick trip somewhere or, you know, dedicate more time to something else. But yeah, so module two is very much just a test of how you can structure a time well enough while leaving some time for the group literature review. Um Finally, for BSE project options in cancer front, there's actually quite a large range I would say. So uh I would divide it into three main types. You get uh clinical based projects which are quite patient facing or basically, you know, projects that require you to go into a clinic or a hospital and get some type of data. So this can be in the form of questionnaires, this can be in the form of collecting samples from patients possibly uh and consenting them for that. So these are kind of like the clinical based projects. Second type are what we call data interpretation type projects where you kind of join like a research lab, but mainly it's an office job. So you get your little cubicle with your computer um in their office or in like the research group's lab and then you'll be running kind of stuff through R through Excel, trying to model things or trying to basically make sense of like the Mumbo jumbo data that they've generated from either previous students or even previous post grads. Um And so that will be more kind of numbers heavy and that will require you to kind of have like a, you know, um you will need to kind of pick up certain like uh programming, not really programming, but kind of like um technical things along the way as you go uh pro progress through. So that's the data interpretation kind of umbrella. And the third type of project uh are wet lab based projects. So lab like projects that actually take place in um live labs at Hammersmith Hospital or for example, in uh uh in Saint Mary's Hospital where people um actually work with pipettes and with, for example, live cell culture or work with the puts and cupboards, mix chemicals together, uh do imaging and stuff like that. Uh do synthesis s synthesis of certain chemical compounds. So by I, my, I personally went for a lab based project um and mine was in genetically modified organisms which are used for kind of like inducing mutations to see um to find patterns in breast cancer. So I think it kind of just depends on what you also like as a person, I guess when it comes to the end, of course, you can also set up your own bespoke project. But I feel like with the BSE project as well, you kind of want to do your due diligence and do enough research uh and choose like a project, speak to the supervisor before you choose it. Uh We had the option to kind of email them, get to know, kind of like what the project is really about and what's expected of us. And if you're transparent with that beforehand, it will be much easier in the long term. At least you won't suddenly realize that, oh, I didn't sign up to be in the office from 9 to 4 or 9 to 5 every day. But then because, you know, the project eventually progressed to that point where you had to do that, then it would be like kind of a pleasant surprise. So that is kind of like my advice for the BSC project when it comes to like kind of the types you can choose from and my advice for that. Um Ultimately, I feel like in general though, the year is really quite chill. Um And as like many have said previously, it's the year where you can actually spend more time structuring, you know, every, like every balancing everything to the same amount rather than spending a lot of time on your medicine degree. Um, and I guess ultimately, um, the most important thing I guess is to just enjoy it. Really. Uh, don't give yourself too much pressure. I know everybody is trying to try to aim for it first or we'll have applied to something that has either a very high chance of getting it first or something that's very oversubscribed. But the thing is, you know, kind of ease into it as it goes and if you kind of structure a time, well then you should have no problem kind of achieving thresholds that you want. Um, so if, if there are any other questions, feel free to tell them the chat or I'll also provide my short code as well. So that's, that's it for me. Uh, great. Um, yeah, thanks Adrian. I guess we'll just, we'll just wait 30 seconds or so, see if there's any questions. Um, otherwise next we're gonna be, er, very shortly moving on to cardiovascular sciences. Um, and Gia is gonna be giving us a talk today on that in a second. Cool. Um, hi. Everyone. I'm Gia. Um, I know it says Russia, but I prefer to go by Gia. So, even if you want to email me after it, we'll just, just, just go by, um, my short code. Um, I did cardiovascular sciences last year and, um, it was honestly a really, really amazing experience. I went into it thinking, um, that I wanted to do cardiovascular sciences in the future as a specialty. Um, unfortunately I came out thinking I really don't want to, but I don't think that's a problem with cardio in itself. Um I think fourth year is all about trying to get to know how to understand science and the way you choose to do it is either through cardio and cancer frontier. So, you know, if you pick cardio, it will be a very, very interesting journey because it's taught extremely well and the support is really, really good. Um in terms of my top tips, um I would say first thing. So your first entire module, like with all sciences will just be the lectures um do not take notes. This is not stuff you're going to be assessed on. The whole reason you have these lectures in the first place is because they want to um kind of expose you to the different topics that are available in cardiovascular sciences. And um the the the like the lecturers come in because chances are they will have loads of BSC projects on and the whole purpose of it is trying to see whether you like the topic they're talking about and whether you want to take it up in module three later on in the summer. Um, so just see if like the zone into lectures in and out, it's very high, um, like high level stuff. So don't try and like, understand every single thing that they tell you. It is also a little bit tedious sometimes. So genuinely just zone in and out depending on whether you're generally interested in the topic or not and see whether this is someone who you could see as your supervisor in module three. Um And then in terms of the ICA S, um I would say basically most people do cardio because it, it's not an easy first. You do have to work for it, but the proportion of people that get a first at the end is extremely high. Um So, and I think a lot of people have chosen it for that reason. Um So I think just try and aim for 70% and anything above is greater, but don't beat yourself up about getting like 72 instead of getting like 78 because at the end of the day, it will just show up as a first. And um it's very rare that they give people above 80 at all. So this is just something to keep in mind because the, the mark teams that they share with you will show like the criteria that's required to get above 80 above 90 stuff. But that's like, honestly, so rare, I've never even heard of it. Um So that's my topic for the ICA is, I also think it's really good that for term one, you always have to do a formative before you do the actual summative. Honestly, just mess up the formative. It's fine. It's completely ok if you do not do well in that, because the feedback you get from your tutor at the end of your tutorial, going through that formative is so so useful and that will shape your summative to what, what it is and everyone improves. They always end up doing miles better in the summative. So if your formative don't go that well, it's completely fine. Um The other thing I would say is IC three in particular, the data task, you just get given a set of data and you have to work backwards and come up with the graphs yourself and um do a mini write up for the whole thing that you are heavily dependent on each other because the answer is the same thing and all of you are trying to get to the same answer, just work together. Um There's a lot of like cohort teamwork from December onwards because you will do lit review as well and you need to be working really well as a team. Um But I think the the biggest thing with module three, the last one. There's four things that I really do recommend that everyone does. Firstly make sure the topic interests you because this is something that you will be doing for almost three months and you don't want to be doing something. Like if you're not a lab based person, just do not pick a lab based project. Like a lot of people did just put it in the, in the list of um selected topics and they did end up getting it and it was quite tedious. So I think just make sure that you 100% see yourself doing this and you know, following through with this project all the way to the very end because you will have loads of ups and downs in module three. The second thing is one thing I think people don't really realize is as well as picking your project, you also have to pick your supervisor. So when you're picking a supervisor, obviously pick someone who you think, you know, you can work well with, they have a good robust team. But it's also important to see like with cardio because a lot of people are focused on publications and getting close to presentations and it, it's very academics heavy. I think you need to pick a supervisor based on how well they will give you opportunities to do this with your project later. So set your priorities straight from the beginning. Like if you want a publication out of this, you need to ask them at the, at the beginning of meeting. Is this something that is part of a bigger paper? Is this part of someone's phd or is there a chance that I could possibly be first author on this? Um So set your intentions straight from the beginning because if they know that this is the kind of stuff you're working towards, they'll be more than happy to help you. Um And then I would say the next thing is really thoroughly check the requirements of the project. So with cardio, a lot of projects are heavily focused on coding and learning a new language. So mine was um about the way that patients with aortic stenosis respond to pregnancy and the data that I collected, I analyzed completely on um R which is a, like a programming language and I had no experience with R before this. So I completely learned that from scratch using like, obviously, my, my, my has helped us, but there wasn't as much hands on help as I would have appreciated having no coding background whatsoever, but I did manage it in the end and it was completely doable with the help of GPT. But um I think you really need to make sure that if you haven't done coding or programming, if it's something you want to learn by all means, go ahead. But like make it clear that you haven't done it before. And also make it clear that what kind of support you're going to have, you need to clarify, whether you're going to have someone who will teach you the coding or whether that's something you'll have to learn by yourself. It might just be easier to go for something that's more like prism based because prism is something you're taughtt as part of the course anyway. But if you want to learn coding by all means, go ahead do that. And then the last thing I would check is definitely check whether it's going to be something that's you're going to have to do your data collection remotely. So, you know, you can do it in the comfort of your own home, you'll have data available from the hospital computers, but on your computer or whether it's something that you're going to have to go and do in person because that's a huge it will change how dedicated you are to actually going and collecting the data. So um definitely check that out. But I think all in all, it's an amazing year, you have a lot of support, not only in module one but also in two and three. And I think just enjoy all the, all the opportunities you get. And um if possible pick your supervisor earlier on like go to the lecturers at the end and ask if they've got projects on if the topic interests you because waiting for that massive list at the end, firstly, it's not insanely massive. And secondly, the variety isn't huge. So if you organize your own project, it's a lot better and that's also what faculty will say to you. It's a lot better than waiting for that massive list. Um So yeah, if anyone has any questions and let me know, I'll put my um short code in the chat as well. Thanks guys. Uh great. Thank you so much, er, Gia for that. Um Yeah, again, any questions guys feel free to put them in the chat. Um Hopefully j will be around for a couple of minutes to answer them if you do have any. So, uh next, um we are going to be swiftly moving on to endocrinology. Um and R shaba is gonna be talking about that and there's a couple of er slides I believe as well. Um So I'll hand the hand the stage over. Lovely. Thank you, Leon. Ok. Hi guys. I'm just going to talk to you a bit about endocrinology. Um Next slide, please. Lovely. So as you may know from your induction lectures so far, um Endo's first time is quite relaxed. So only in, for three days, in a week, two days are online and your typical day is around 9 a.m. to sort of 3 p.m. So you've got a lot more free time in terms of your lectures. It's genuinely there for understanding. So it's not like in medicine where you have to make notes and memorize things. So just enjoy the learning process, see which topics you're more interested in, try and identify any gaps in the literature that you can possibly look into for your projects and your I CS. Um But it's quite relaxed in general. Um Make sure that you're organized because quite a few of the deadlines come consecutively. Um So put them down in your calendars, cos you have your ICA S and then you have your mock ICA S as well. And the workload picks up quickly and then drops down quite quickly as well. So with your mock ICA S, you don't have to do the full assignment um each time. So they give you like a smaller chunk of work, but they're basically just giving you the opportunity to practice the skills that you will need to demonstrate in your final ICA S and you'll get to do these in groups as well. So there's less work. Um But it's important that you do learn from the feedback that you get for these because our course leads are quite picky with the things that they want for the assignments. So learn from what they've told you and make sure you demonstrate that in your assessments and they give you certain lectures, um like how to write literature appropriately, how to present and analyze your data. So make sure that you do align your work with what they've taught you. A good example is when we did our presentations and slides, they like quite simple slides. So without animations, without funky colors, et cetera. And so when you do do that, they mark you really low. So they have quite specific requirements. Next slide, please. Thank you. Um It's also helpful to potentially have some examples of ICA S from people in the year above you. Um uh but either way the assignments vary each year, so the topics are gonna change. Um But it could help with looking at the structure and how to present your work also. Some. So a lot of the work that you have to do across the year is group based. So your literature review in the second term and all your mock ICA S are gonna be done in groups. So it's important that you do get to know your group well, because the group is the same um across the year. So get to know your group really well, do some socials with them because if you have a good team, um rapport, then that will help you do better and produce better work across the year. Some of the ICA S give you a bit more freedom in terms of what you want to look into what you want to research. And this can be quite daunting at the start. Um But it's important that you enable yourself to delve into the literature, see what has been found out, what hasn't been found out and then go from there but I understand there are points where you have too much freedom and, you know, just embrace it and be creative. It's important as people previously have said to pick a project that is interesting for you particularly cos you're going to be spending around three months, you know, researching it. So choose something that interests you. You'll have around 30 topics to choose between and you have to rank 15 of them um from top to bottom. And in terms of how they allocate these projects, it's based on your attendance and how well you've done in your ICA. So just bear that in mind across the first time and you know, give it your best shot next to her um slide, please. Yeah, so a few resources. So make sure you figure out how to do your referencing early. Don't leave it until the last minute because then it, it will just waste more time. Uh For me, I use Manly Web importer and that kind of saved a lot more time um with organizing citations because it does it automatically, we also a lot of us use biora.com. So that's a website for creating images for your presentations and you know, infographics to present the data and prism graph pad can help a lot with data analysis and statistical um stuff as well, which, which saves a lot of time for your final project. In terms of socials, you'll have a social rep. So they will organize everything and it really depends on how enthusiastic your cohort is. So we had two across the year, but there can be more um depending and in terms of publications as well if people are keen on that. Um, again, as people have said previously, it depends on your supervisor. So it's important that you do set that intention with your supervisor, say what you want out of the project and see if there are opportunities like that. And if you can't publish, you can also present at conferences as well and you get told by your course leads at the start of the year that you can subscribe to the Society for Endocrinology and you'll get emails about any opportunities that come your way, any conferences as well and that can help you with your publications having a membership there for the year. Um If you have any more questions, feel free to send your short code over, I'll send my short code over and you can email me. Um But that's me done for today. Thank you. Um Yeah, great. Thanks very much for that. Um Yeah, very interesting. And we'll um in a second, I think just move over to um Gastro and Hepatology. Um And uh S Siksha is gonna be speaking for us today. Um I think she'll be with us in just a second. I hope and I think um so uh I think you have to accept the um Yeah, the Oh, perfect thank you so much. Um Yeah, I'll hand it over. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. Ok. Breath. Um So hi, I'm si did Gastro and hip for my PSE. Um, so honestly I just did this BC because I was in interested in Gastro and hip for my placements and I was told that it's an easy first. Um, and I do think it still holds true. Um, they give you the lead waer who gives like tips and tricks for every single IC and honestly, if you follow that advice, um there's definitely a high chance of you getting into the seventies or above. So confirming your first. Um So I'm just gonna go through some overall tips quickly. So the lead again on, she goes through information sessions for each of the ICA S and she goes through the older ICA S work. She says which one scores highly, which ones didn't score as highly, um What you should include and what you shouldn't include. So I think it is worth noting it all down every single time. So you can use, utilize that into your own ICA S. Um There is, I believe a note bank full of all the years ICA S that's floating around somewhere. Um I definitely recommend um having access to that so you can read the examiner's comments, both the positive and the negative feedback. So you know what you should and should not do for your own ICA S and lastly, in terms of overall tips, I think, use A I to your advantage. Obviously you don't want to plagiarize, so you don't want to copy exactly whatever it gives you, but you can use it to your advantage in terms of understanding the paper, er, thinking about um, strengths and limitations of the paper. It will give you some ideas. Uh, Gastro actually gives you a tutorial where you can use a specific software called Claud effectively. And with that one, you can upload research papers and ask any questions you want. Um So I do highly recommend using it in terms of your first ICA. So that's the commentary. Gastro actually organizes a session very early on where you have to state which paper you're gonna write your commentary about. I would advise spending a chunk of your time before that sifting through the papers and seeing which paper you completely understand. So you can fully analyze it properly and then write your commentary on it. Um Don't go and make the mistake of choosing a random paper the morning of the session or the, then you have so much time left to analyze it properly and, and have time for the write up the second ICA. So that's your er powerpoint presentation. Um WAFA specifically has a um specific requirements in terms of how she would like your powerpoints to be structured. So I would definitely follow that advice. Um And I think some people worry when they get a lab based uh paper in comparison to a clinical paper, which is a bit more easier to understand. Um and has less information. But what I would suggest is um just put the relevant information on your powerpoints, don't make it overloaded. Make sure you convey the information that you want to convey in a very easy manner to the audience. Um And you should be fine, just don't overload it. Cos that's a mistake that I made and I had to change the whole thing two days before. But then when I did change it, I did score highly. So I would advise you to do that um earlier on um in terms of IC three. So that's your lab based one. So you, you spend three days in the lab and actually do the experiments yourselves and groups. Um I would highly recommend just understanding um the steps of the protocol before you even leave the session. So if you have any doubts, make sure you ask the supervisors or ask r because when you come to write your methodology, which is usually the first part you write in your a write up, um You don't want to regret not having understood anything in the lab and having to go back which wastes time in terms of your actual write up time. There's also AQ and a session that they holder where you can ask any of your adults. So please use all those sessions wisely. Um The next one's the group, group literature review. Honestly, that's so calm. Like if you regularly meet up with your group in person and everyone does their work, you should score highly. Like there's no reason why you shouldn't. But the only problem is your science and context. So that's your poster ICA. That's a few days, only a few days after your group literature submission. So I would advise you to maybe start earlier on maybe just write a few points in the Christmas holidays. So that when you have those few days, you can just focus on putting those points on nicely structure it on the POSTOP. Um I would also say because gastro, you don't actually talk to a patient for your case. The lecturer provides you with a patient case and they recommend certain topics that you can um do your post draw. I be because they know that there's a lot of research papers behind that and a lot, a lot of research has been done. So there is a lot of information you can include rather than just coming up with your own idea, but that loads of people have done that and have scored highly as well. So it is up to you in the end. Uh And lastly, in terms of the project, I think I went for a lab based one because I did enjoy the three days in the lab that I had for IC three. But when it came to choosing the project, I just went with whatever interested me. And I also spoke to some older years and asked them which supervisors are helpful and which ones may not be as helpful. So I would recommend closer to the time, talking to older years and seeing um which um you could go with that might guide your decision. A lot of the ICA S honestly can just be done in the week of the submission. Um Obviously ICA three, the lab based one and the project one leave a bit more time. Um But the other ones you can easily do in the week and so there's a lot of time to go and do some like go and engage in socials, um go and do extracurricular activities. So I'd highly recommend doing that because when you come to fifth year, you don't get as much time. So, yeah, that's all my tips for you guys. If you have any questions, just put in the chart, I'll put my short code in there as well. Thank you. Um Great. Yeah, thank you so much. Um I guess probably we'll just wait around a minute or so. Um And then we'll jump right into um immunity which is gonna be talking about for us today. So I guess, yeah, uh just 30 seconds or so we can start with that. Uh Thanks. Sure. I'm ok. I ran off whenever you're ready. Um take it away. Oh, sorry, we just, uh, oh, I don't have a, I don't have a slide for immunity. I'm sorry about that. Um, I think I must have missed it. Um, but I'm sure that's ok. Yeah. Um, that's fine. Uh, I hope everyone can hear me. All right. Um, so, yeah, so immunity. I really enjoyed my BSC. Uh, it was, it was really good. I just, I'm just gonna go through like, each module and what I thought was what I would have liked to have known and maybe something that might help you out. Um, but like module one was, was quite chill. Um, really not that intense. I mean, I, I'm a final year now so it was a couple of years ago. I don't know if maybe they've made more in person sessions now but it was only like two, usually a week of in person things and then the rest for E modules and stuff. So, um, you do get a lot of time. Er, so make use of that. Definitely. Uh, or the free time and, and especially if like external or something then try and, you know, do stuff and, you know, join societies and things and I guess enjoy that but the actual content itself, it's, there's quite a variety, er, it's mostly immune im immunity, immunology rather than infectious diseases. Er, but there's still a good amount of that and if you're interested in it, I think you can definitely, there's like really good lecturers who run that content. So um there's a lot of uh good infectious disease stuff as well. Um The assessments are, are, are pretty kind of standard across all the B CS but the written and the present and the oral are, are are pretty alright. You get to do the market and I think you get a good idea of really kind of how they are and I think most people do quite well on them. Uh I guess just read like the examples and have a look at uh the, the structure they give you and, and it should be fine, I think uh definitely for us the data management, the mini research project was quite a stressful, er, it was probably the most stressful thing in the whole BSC. Um cos you kind of get thrown in a little bit on the deep end with the experiments and things and you kind of have to learn it all kind of during that week. Uh And it's kind of a lot. Um and we were kind of surprised by how much the whole thing was worth. Uh when you say when you think about how it's only two weeks to do, you know a lot of experiments and stats and write up. But um it is all right. I think the best thing to do is to think about the experiments before you get in the lab. Uh try and plan it out as much as you can in your groups. I think it'll probably make it a lot less stressful and think about your right while you're doing it cos it can be quite a lot of work if you try and just do it all in the, in the second week. Um, so do try and, uh, try and plan, plan a bit ahead. Um, and it should be fine, but I think that was probably the only thing that some people maybe didn't score as well in. Um that was quite a common, common thing. So uh just look out for that. But again, just look at examples. I think they do give you some, just try and try and look at what went well. Um And, and you should be fine. Um Yeah, everything in module two, the case report and the lit review were really quite were fine really. Um The case report, the science and context thing is II thought it was a bit tricky just because you might not feel like, you know what they're really looking for. Um It can kind of feel like that but I think your remit used to your supervisor, I kind of spoke to them quite late. Um And it was kind of hard to reach out to them and I didn't really get a lot of guidance but try and push for some help about what sort of things to write about, try and meet them early. Um, and if you do that, you know, it's fine. It's not, I don't think it's too hard in itself. Just look at case reports, you know, just generic ones and you'll get a good idea of the sort of thing to write about. Um, and they usually kind of, there was a lot of, kind of, um, it was usually a lot of epidemiology type things or like new infections may maybe like co co infections and things like that. Um But it's like quite standard stuff. So if, you know, talk to other people in your groups and stuff and they should have quite similar stuff and the lit review was fine. Um Again, it's, it's kind of, it's publishable potentially. Um It's kind of a lot of work to get it done but you definitely can. Um but it's, it's fine to actually do. Um uh yeah, I guess uh with immunology, I guess you might be thinking about what kind of projects you can do. Um There's quite a good selection of lab and clinical ones and the clinical ones are pretty much data management, data stats sort of things. Um And the lab one, so I did a lab project. Um I really enjoyed it. So, I mean, if you're wondering about the kind of things that you might be doing, it's like, I think most of the lab based projects did like western blots culture, uh PCR electrophoresis, that sort of thing. So, yeah. Very wet lab stuff. Um, and, yeah, I really enjoyed mine. Uh, I think the biggest tip for kind of deciding what you want to do is meet all the supervisors. Uh, actually get a good idea cos it does vary quite a bit if you decide to do, you know, from II know, I kind of knew pe plenty of people who were doing both and it, it generally seemed like, you know, people were doing lab projects were doing, you know, nine to fives, four or five days a week. Um, and the clinical ones tended to be mostly working from home and they kind of met with their supervisor every so often but you mostly had a lot more kind of control and independence. Um, so I guess, think about what you want, uh, to do in your project, um, you do get to do a lot of stuff in the lab projects. Um, and it's really experience, especially if you're thinking about and you're not sure if you want to do research at some point. I think this kind of helps you figure out if it's for you or not. Um, and it is, I had a really nice lab. Um, I was, uh, with a, if that project comes up again but his lab was really nice. Um, I really enjoyed it there. Uh, but, yeah, have a good talk to all the supervisors and actually ask about kind of practically what your day to day is gonna look like, um, and the actual write up and things, I guess, especially if you're doing a lab one, don't try and just wait until you've got all your results. So you've done everything to start writing up cos it can kind of get a bit much. I mean, that's what I did and it did end up being fine, but, uh, it's probably probably better to try and write like the intro at the, like at the midpoint cos you can and um just kind of keep on top of it as you go, but it's, it's all you have a good amount of support. Um All the lecturers are really good. Um It's pretty well organized. Um And yeah, overall really enjoyed the BSC. Um Yeah, I um if you have any questions or like need any help with like anything or you're not sure about what to write about in something or I don't know any, anything. Just uh just ask, I'm happy to help. Yeah, I'll put my short code in the, in the chat if you have any questions now. So just just shout out open this app. Yeah. Uh Greater. Yeah, thank you. Uh Thank you for that. Um Again, sorry, I didn't have a slide er for you. Um that was personal. Um but yeah, uh will probably hang around for a couple of minutes if there are questions otherwise. So uh we can have a little switch switch around now. Um So I know on the schedule it says that we're gonna have hematology next. Um but we're just gonna switch this round with um neuro. So um Heidi's gonna be speaking um for a few minutes about neuro and then we'll go back to hematology at 745. Um So yeah, sorry for the change again guys. Um and thank you very much av um yeah, so I do. Ok, so um yeah, um I'd like to welcome. Hi, you on to the stage. Hi, everyone. Um I hope you're doing well and you're enjoying the start to year four. I know it's a bit of a change but you'll get used to it. It's fine and it will literally pass probably in about 10 seconds. It will feel like. Um so I did neuroscience and mental health last year overall. I think it was ok. It probably wasn't the best PSE for me. Um I was really interested in the psychiatry aspect more than neuroscience and the division between them is not equal. Um There's a lot more like neurology and neuroscience and all those bits and that I just found a little bit boring, but that's just me. Um So be mindful of that, especially when you're going into the projects and they do have some Psychiatry projects and they're really interesting, but there aren't that many. So if you're interested in them, go for the supervisor, get to know them, get to know their research and like a lot of the other speakers have said, try and pick up the um the projects before because it will give you a, a bit, a bit of an advantage for understanding the content and it'll make your life a bit easier. But I think one of the main points for the whole BSE is your overall grade is definitely dependent on the effort that you put into it, especially for neuro because it can feel quite unsupported at times. But your best support are gonna be the older year groups. They're gonna have a lot of examples and they're gonna be your peers, I think because it is a challenging year. It's a huge change from actually doing medicine, which we're all really comfortable with. So make sure you look out for each other because it can be very stressful and just make sure everyone's doing OK. The biggest change in the I CS for RB E is the fact that they actually swap ICA two and three. So we do our big project report first and then they do the like the powerpoint presentation afterwards because you'll be more like switched on before Christmas by the time everyone else is doing it. So, just be mindful of that and don't leave it to the last minute because that's probably the one of the biggest parts that can determine your overall grade. Um And I would not leave anything to the last minute because the Neuro markers are quite picky and what they like to read and it's quite hard to know sometimes what they actually want and it can be a bit dependent on who is marking it. So, don't be too disheartened if you've worked really hard and you haven't got the grade that you wanted, it might just be that someone who's read it that isn't the style for them. And that's fine getting examples from older years. I know everyone said it, but it's definitely really important. Um You can feel free to message me, email me afterwards and I'll send you mine. Um But the good thing about this year is everyone's on the same plane. There's no percentage of people that have to fail so everyone can get a first. And that means that I would really encourage this mindset of helping everyone to get a first share the resources that you have, especially the old year examples. Look at past papers that your lecturers have written because they're the people that are gonna be marking your work, especially like Magdalena and Steve, all those people that you're gonna see a lot, especially the internals, you'll know the people that will be marking your work. You'll know a lot of the people who will be running the projects. So I'd get to know with the styles that they're familiar with first. Um And time management. I don't know if you've seen by now, but they like to do the split timetable. So you'll be in a lot and they'll have a lot of lectures in the morning and you'll have some in the afternoon and you'll have a gap in the middle. I would use that gap because you don't wanna be doing the work at home. If you're gonna be in, um, the Commonwealth building all day, I would use it. Go to the library, do something and you'll just feel a bit better about yourself at the end of the day because you can do it in smaller chunks. You don't have to work really hard. I never did an all nighter for it and I wouldn't recommend that you do. Um, you don't need to just work hard little and often and you'll be fine. Um, the lit review is really good. It's really easy. Um, just make sure that you're working with. Well, you can't determine who you work with but try and make sure that you're not that one member of the group who doesn't do anything. Um, don't be that person, please. It makes everyone life stressful. Um, but it's one of the biggest things I think that can affect your overall grade. At least that's what happened last year. Um, you can get a really high grade in the lit review and I would recommend that you go for it and try and get the highest grade that you can use. Your supervisor. Work really hard, meet up in person because if you are not as comfortable writing assessments on your own, which is completely fine and normal because they're really difficult. Um, that's that time to work hard in a group being supported by your peers and actually getting a grade that is gonna be high and it's gonna bump your average up and it will take the pressure off by the time you get to the projects. Um, they gave you the project list in December and you have a time to email them and find out who's gonna be with you for the time. I would really try and understand who's actually gonna be working with you because some of the supervisors are quite hands off and they'll put you with a phd candidate or someone else. So I did the project with um Professor A Ling Hughes and I would really recommend that to any people interested in psychiatry. They were always hands on. They were always there. You can work in the office and it gives you a better insight into psychiatry because you can do psychiatry placements as well. Um And because the actual content of Neurolax in psychiatry use this opportunity to explore if that's something that interests you and it's potentially why you chose it. But overall, I think you're gonna be fine even if you don't enjoy it. Like I did, you'll be fine. You'll make it to the next year. You'll have your grade and you'll get to graduate and you'll have a great time. Um But yeah, look after each other and make sure that everyone's OK, cos it's stressful but well done on making it to year four. You halfway, it's gonna be great. Thank you, LA. Uh Thanks. Uh Thanks a lot Heidi for that um Inspiring words. Um But yeah, again, uh I'm sure Heidi might be able to hang on for a couple of minutes, er, if you guys have any questions. Um So just in terms of our next speaker, we have Kasher who's going to be speaking about um hematology, he's just on his way now. So um just give me a minute or so I think until he joins and then we can jump straight into it. Um But yeah. Ok. Um Yeah, so Kavish is here now. Um I just invited to, to the stage. Um So whenever you're ready, uh accept that invitation, um I know I'll hand it over. Um, am I all right to start or? Uh Yes. Uh Yeah, please. I whenever you're ready. Thanks for, thanks for coming on. No worries, man. Um So, hi, I'm Cash. Um I didn't really make slides because this was like very, very short notice. Um So to my knowledge, there's only five people who are actually doing him this year. Um in terms of what I'll go through is pretty much just a brief overview of what the year will be like. Um Sorry, if my voice is a bit quirky, it's been fresh as for literally the entire day. So in terms of what the year is gonna be like, it's pretty much the same like all the science, medical science based PSE S. So you have six I CS effectively, you have three in the first term. So that's usually um a data analysis, one which carries the most weightage, um a commentary or a, a letter to the editor which carries the same weightage as um a poster presentation type of IC. So like a powerpoint slide shows pretty much what we did for ours. Um Then in the second term, you have the science and context with the um the science and context, one with the group literature review. And then finally, in the, in the third time is, is the, is the one that counts the most, which is your final project. Um in terms of advice for each of them, I mean, it's a very, very like short seven minute thing. So I'll just say pretty much for all of them, the advice is the same, always have a plan um like spend a good amount of time, not like a crazy amount of time, but like spend a good day actually coming up with a plan and a structure as to OK, I need to cover this, this and this and then go through it in a systematic way as to like what are the questions that I need to answer and what are the questions that I need to find literature in order to answer. Um Other than that throughout the entire year, um The great thing about him is the course lead, Jim. Um he is great, like he'll support you a lot, to be honest, the whole team will support you a lot. Um And since you only have five people, like they're going to be quick to respond. So that's one of the big benefits of him being a smaller cohort size, you get very, very quick responses from your course leads, so utilize your course leads and maximize the benefit of your course leads. Um The earlier you get questions and the more questions you have, the better just email them and ask them like there isn't a question that Jim won't have an answer for or at least won't have um someone to point you in the direction of. So that's pretty much it like in terms of he, there's not really much else advice that I can give. I'm happy to answer any questions. But yeah, in terms of advice, like that's pretty much it. Um The only other advice I would say is in the project selections. Uh I would humbly say it's in your best interest to do a lab based um project. The primary reason I say that is because it's Heme, very few BSE S have the same level of labs that Heme does. Um Second of all Imperial is known for its labs So if you're externally intercalating here, um It's sort of a shame if you've come to Imperial for a year and don't experience the labs we have here. And third of all, it's better to understand if you love or hate labs in these three months, then sign up to do a lab based phd later on, um or a lab based MD later on and then H 32 to 3 years of your life. So either swallow the pill now for three months and learn from the mistake. Um All understand you love labs and understand that at an earlier stage than at a later stage um during your MD or phd. So either way it's a win, win, um you either understand that you either hate labs and don't ever want to do that side of science fair play or you understand you love labs and you want to only do that side of science also fair play. But the only way to come to that conclusion is actually going through labs. Um and labs will teach you a lot about yourself and your way of thinking more than you could ever imagine until you do labs. So I would highly, highly, highly, highly recommend to do a lab based project and Jim will be telling you that to high heaven as well. So yeah, that's pretty much it in terms of all the advice I have, I'm happy to answer any questions and then um uh L on. Do you want me to like send across my uh from from the chat? I can see short code name and then the the course or uh yeah, yeah, so um obviously that's up to you because it's your um yeah, no, I'm calm with that. No worries. Perfect. Yeah, and also if you can hang around just for a couple of minutes as well, um in case no one has questions. Um But yeah, thank you so much for that. I also appreciate um you coming on at late notice. Um I know you've had a very long day. Um So thanks a lot for that, honestly. No worries. Great. Um Yeah, so, so with that we're gonna move on now. So obviously we just had the neurotol before as well. Um So we're going to move on to um pharmacology um and Eve's um going to be uh talking to us a little bit about that. Um So yeah, thanks Eve over to you. Perfect. Can you hear me? Yep. All good. Ok, great. So, hi, my name is Eve. I'm currently a final year medical student, but I did pharmacology two years ago now. Um if you're on call and you're doing Pharm. Great. Congratulations. It's a really great choice. Um when I was applying, I think Pharm was one of the most competitive ones. I don't know if it still is now, but it's kind of one of the few reasons that it was most competitive was because of the great support. Like from my experience, pharmacology offered really good support throughout the whole BSC. So you've got that to look forward to. Um it's really widespread across all areas of medicine. So you get to look at things like, you know, um, pharmacology in Neuroscience, pharmacology, endocrinology, pharmacology, and gastro, like it's related to everything. Um It's also really great because so many trials and so many good, cool, interesting, well, trials are all about drugs. Um So it's got loads and loads of content. Um I also think pharmacology is really good because it's got quite fair marking. I think I know some other Bs CS have struggled in past years with not being that fair with marking, but I think pharmacology has always been very fair with their marks. And so yeah, that's kind of why I would say it's a good one to go for. So, um you've probably heard from a lot of the other BSE um presented so far um about the general structure of the BSE, but it's FMC is pretty much the exact same. So you start off, you have kind of six total um ICA S um and some of them are split into different things. So your first three in your first term will be your letter to the editor, uh your presentation or your video and your lab report and that's everything you do up until Christmas and you do those in kind of like four week chunks. And after Christmas, you've got your group literature review, you've got your science and context and then finally you go on to your final project. So I kind of summarize the first three. So, like I said, they're all in four week blocks when you start, it will feel like you don't really know what you're doing. Um But my main advice for most of the, but especially the first few weeks is to just trust the process. Um You feel like you're completely in the dark and trust me, that is, it's not how you're meant to feel, but that's kind of how everyone else feels. Um Like I said, at the beginning, pharmacology have a really good team, really good faculty. Um They're always happy to take emails to, you know, stay after lectures and talks to give any support if that's needed. So, like, that's all available to you. Um I remember at the beginning feeling like they said to us, like, here's the ICA you need to do, go for it. Um And I was like, how am I supposed to do this? But trust the process, that's how it's kind of meant to go and you'll be just fine um use the resources around you as well. Um I found that for the start for a letter to the editor, um It was, there's so many of them online. So when you start, just look up, kind of like the general structure, like it's your first year of doing scientific writing. So it's, you know, good to look at what's already out there. So I use a lot of PUBMED just to kind of see what is the letter to the ed to. Um And obviously look at all the years. I'm more than happy to give out, you know, my previous work give out the previous work. But the only thing is that's really important to remember from that is do not plagiarize. Um There has been problems in previous years with plagiarism. Um I'm really happy for people to look at my work as a general structure. But they have a really, like people have a really good system with like a really good technology on how to spot if people are copying. So all I would say is I would look at older years just to be like, OK, that's the titles they use, that's the structure they use, but you must not copy it because it can have really serious outcomes. So that's kind of the main um point I would get you to take from that um with the final project for Ph um like I said at the beginning as well, PH offers a huge range of projects. So kind of if you're interested, particularly in maybe like, I don't know cardiology if you're interested in Gynae, like there's tons of opportunities to do projects involved in that because PHC is just looking at um drugs and the study of drugs and how they impact things. So there's loads and loads of choice. Um with the project, you have four months, I think, total to complete it. Um So when you start, it feels like low, like you've got so much time, but time management is really key set out your timeline of what you, what you're going to achieve throughout those four months because no one is keeping on top of you. Um The faculty are always there if you want to reach out to them, but no one is emailing you saying, like, make sure you've done this, make sure you've done that. It's all up, all down to you. And that goes for all of the ICA si think it's really important to, you know, keep on track of everything and kind of give yourself mini deadlines throughout the week or throughout the period you're doing the ICA. Um because that's ultimately how you're going to reduce the levels of stress. Um But yeah, with the project, that's kind of the longest one. So you've got four months to complete it, set yourself some timelines and then you have a final presentation at the end, which I would not worry about. I think by the time you get to the project to the presentation, you know, your project so well. Um So it's just kind of like, you know, making a nice presentation and making sure you have all the key um sort of points in there about your project and it's just a good opportunity to get used to doing like research level presentations as well. Um uh Another thing I would say about um the BSE and with um this kind of goes for all BSE S but um, a lot of people worry about publications and think like, when I'm going into it or how am I going to get published or, you know, what's the, um what's the crack with that? How does that work? Um My main advice would be to not worry too much about publications. I think you have the great thing with the BSE is it's an opportunity to learn research skills and learn how to, you know, do scientific writing that you will use in the future. And I don't know if people might not know, but when you, when you get to final year and in your foundation years, you start looking at, you know, what specialties you're applying for and they've just updated surgical specialty applications and now they look at the quality and the importance of the work that you've done. Not the quantity. So it's really important that you go into BSE, you know, wanting to learn and acquire as many skills as possible. And don't worry too much about publications if however, I'm sure many of you do want to get publication, my best advice to doing that or not even a publication, but like a poster presentation or something like that form a good relationship with your supervisor. So reach out to them early, they've probably got will, will have a full time job on the side as well. So you probably need to be the one who's keeping up with them and forming that good relationship. The supervisors also invested in your project. They want you to do well because a lot of the time you might be working in their lab or you're working with a doctor who's, you know, trying to do some work for their patients or for their specialty. So they want, they want to help you as well. So reach out to them and they're the best person to help you with if you want to do publications or present at conferences. So I was really lucky. I got to do uh presented at a conference and that was only because my consultant was the one who was like, yeah, I'm a member of this society, submit your abstract. It'll be fine. Um So that's the advice that I'd give you around publications. Um I didn't want to kind of go on and talk too much, so I'll keep it short and sweet and obviously I'm happy to answer any questions, but overall, my summary would be the farm is a really, really great BSE to do. Um You're going to have a lot of fun. Um The faculty are really invested in you, they're really social, you know, like we got, we did a Christmas dinner with our faculty, which is really nice. Um They're very fair markers um which I think is nice going into it because you put in work and you get a mark back and you think, yeah, that's probably what I deserved. Um And they're always happy to give feedback, like from one of our um lecturers did like an hour and a half Q and A session for us because we basically didn't know what to do with our first IC. Um So they did an hour and a half Q and A with us just to help us kind of get on track with that. Um I'll put my email and um name in the chat as well. Um Please please reach out to me. I'm more than happy to answer any questions, but yeah, enjoy it. It's the only year you'll get in medical school without an exam. So have fun. That would be my advice. Um But yeah, thank you for listening. Great as well. Oh, perfect. Thank you very much for that um summary of um, all right. And next, er, we are going to be moving on to uh remote medicine. Um and she, she's gonna be, er, speaking to us about that. Hi. Uh Can you guys hear me? Uh yeah, we can hear you. Er, perfect. Lovely thanks. So, hi guys. My name is Qi. I'm also one of the final years as well and I did remote medicine about two years ago as well. So um I'm assuming you guys are quite aware with the structure of the course. So it's the same as all the other um medical BS ES you got module one, module two, module three. And just to give you an idea of the content, I think that happened during the course, just because I felt like when I applied, there were certain things that I thought I was going to learn more about, but it wasn't as heavy in the curriculum. So we did things like diving physiology and like high altitude physiology. Quite a lot. We learned about like air travel and space medicine as well as rural medicine as well and field medicine. But I think the rural medicine bit did like, so if you're really interested in that, then you may want to try to get a product in it or research more about it outside of a remote medicine. And then aside from that, you learn a lot about research skills and statistics as well and there are quite a few journal clubs. So if you don't like that, definitely do be aware of that. But that may be the same in all medical BSE S. I'm not entirely sure regarding projects, you do get quite a lot of range. So my projects was actually in the imperial hacks space. It was to do with um like coding and using things like Arduino and prototyping and like C A design and stuff like that so that it does have quite a good scope for doing things that aren't actually as related to remote medicine. Aside from that, you can do projects on physiology in extreme environments or sleep um as well. So if you're interested in that or you like things like LMP that can link into that quite well, there were some on space as well and um things like co so there's quite like a, a good range of products for sure. I don't know if the list has changed, but relatively it is kind of the same each year. Um And if you're interested as well in A I or like telemedicine, they have um options on that as well in regards to just like time management and how to spend the course. I would say the main thing to focus on doing module one is to understand all the content you don't need to remember obviously because there's no actual exams. But I do think it helps you with module two and module three. when doing your own ICA S, your own products to have a good foundation of knowledge, especially because a lot of the content is relatively new because you understand PG, but you don't understand it under water or into space. And those are all quite new concepts. I also would say as well when you're picking topics for your um ICA S pick ones that you're actually interested in because it does take a lot of reading and a lot of understanding. So for example, I didn't like space medicine that much. So I didn't pick a project in that. Um But if you pick something you like, obviously it will become so it'll be so much easier to actually do that. Um That project, I also would say with um module two, that time is quite busy because you've got both group projects and individual projects to do at the same time. And I think balancing that was quite difficult, so definitely become aware of that um Before you go in. So module one is quite intense in terms of going in to um to like lectures and things, but it's not too bad in terms of actual ICA S to do module two definitely gets more intense. And then depending on what project you do, module three can be quite chill if you use your time quite well. I also would say for module three make have a realistic timeline throughout the whole course. Um For me, my supervisor was quite good. So they checked in on me quite a lot and I had to be in the Imperial hack space um a couple of days a week. So it wasn't easy to get off track. But if your supervisor is isn't as hands on, you can kind of like spend a lot of time doing nothing and then have to rush at the end. So definitely be realistic and plan your time really well, when it comes to that. Um overall, I would say that the good things of the course is that there's really good support, I think even for things like um statistics or using software, they haven't used before. We had a lot of Q and A sessions or teacher sessions from the faculty on that. So they definitely are good to that good regarding that. And there is quite a lot of responsiveness as well from the faculty. So it's something that you guys ought, don't understand on the course, they will put another session in or give you some more information regarding that. So that was something I really liked. I also would say it was a good medicine BSC but not um things like cardio or things that you would learn anyways if you're interested in just like medicine, but in a different kind of way, I personally picked it because I was quite interested in um medicine but not in like a developed country and not in such a um equipped situation. So I wanted to learn about how is medicine different when it's in a rural community or how does our body change under water or like at high altitudes? So if you're interested in that, definitely do do it. There also is scope for um other involvement in medicine related things. So, because the faculty are involved in that, um how do I put it, they're involved in like the remote medicine community essentially. So they do know about other products that you can get involved in outside of your BSE um or other people that you can speak to, to get involved in other things. So definitely, if you're interested in it, it would be good to get involved. Um I also did like the fact that we had trips as well. So we had a like a day trip to the hospital to learn about a hyperpyretic chamber. And then also as a trip to Brecon Beacons in Wales, I think they did change it now. But at the time it was a couple of days and we went on like hikes and measured ology during the hikes. And we also had simulated like a to e situations along the hikes um where the faculty were actors and we had to like just do things. It was pretty cool in that sense. So if you do like the outdoors and you like um emergency situation, the medicine outside of hospital, definitely do consider doing it. And I also would say that the group work was a good balance cos I know some, some BSC S have a lot more group work like management or things like that. But if you don't want a lot of that, but you, you want to do like a little bit. Um I would recommend it and definitely module three. I did really enjoy it. Especially because I was able to learn some new skills which weren't really medical related, but also the class supervisor was really helpful. So I think you're making a project to definitely speak to someone in the year above to get an idea of what supervisor actually is like. And whether, whether they will support you or not as well as that some projects do allow you to have the opportunity to publish or like go to um go to give conferences and things like that. I personally didn't, I think based on my project, it was um a lot of like prototyping and creating a new um a new device. So it was hard in that sense to develop it enough to be able to do that. But if you are looking for that, then don't pick a product like mine and a couple of cons, like I said before. So I feel like it was lacking in the r the rural medicine like aspect. So if you're interested in that, that may be like a weak area, um and I did think it was partly hard at some point as well because it was medicine, but in a way I hadn't really seen it before. So I think some people on the course were very interested in remote medicine. So they knew quite a lot about like diving or a lot about altitude medicine, for example. So if you don't know a lot about that, then you might you may find it a little bit intense at first. Um, but there is good support for it and you definitely can find out like quite a lot about it online and things like that. So it's not really a big problem but just something to be aware of. Um, so overall I would definitely recommend my medicine. I don't regret doing it at all. Like I really, generally really enjoyed it. It is like everyone else said, you know, it was a nice break for medicine as well. Um No exams ICA S good support as well and just new, new opportunities is really what I guess um I'd recommend it for if you don't have any questions at all, I'll put my um short code in the chat, feel free to email me. Um and yeah, but that's all. Thanks. Uh Great. Uh Yeah, thank you uh to you for that quick uh breakdown of remote remote medicine. Um and that, that I will jump straight into um repro um and is gonna be uh talking us uh talking to us today. Um So yeah, I'll send you another invite um that that you might have to accept. Uh but yeah, uh whenever you're ready, hey guys, sorry. Can you hear me? Uh Yeah, we can hear you. Um No worries. Perfect. Amazing, thanks. Um ok, so hi everyone. My name is Ella. Um I'm 1/5 year now but I did repro last year. Um uh welcome. Everyone to fourth year. And if there's any repro students on here, welcome, especially, um I'll just jump straight into the kind of more repro specific um advice because I know you guys have probably heard a lot about ICA S in general and the structure and the assessments and you can kind of find all that information anywhere but in terms of repro specific advice I would give. Um is that right from the beginning, uh you might have been told to represent uh elect an academic representative to kind of have some uh dialogue with faculty, make sure you do that soon and make sure you initiate that conversation with faculty as soon as possible. One thing that we found in Repro last year was there was quite a lot of uncertainty or um a lot of clarification required around the I CS um with quite a few vague responses. And what was really key for us was a discussing amongst ourselves when we were unsure and then be having that one person who would represent us all as a group and go to um at the time it was Mark who was leading. But I think this year you guys have is um so yeah, make sure you have that person and make sure you make use of that person. And on that note, don't be scared to be the person in the group chat asking questions because the number of times last year when someone would ask be like, oh, is this a stupid question? I'm not sure. And then everyone else would be like, oh, my gosh. Yes. I'm really not sure about this and we'd end up discussing and then we'd end up bringing it up to the faculty and then we'd end up getting an answer. Um, it's really worth, um, working amongst yourselves even in the individual ICA S. Um, as long as you're not plagiarizing from each other. Um But really do support each other, lean on each other in that case. Um Because, you know, sometimes mistakes will be made and it's not always, you know, you just not understanding things, it can just be, you know, miscommunications. Um So, yeah, um in terms of kind of the things that you'll be doing at the beginning of the year, attend Journal Club and really engage with it. I know it's during, you know, freshers and during some of the busiest times of the year. But I remember how useless I felt walking into those first days not knowing how to critique a paper, which is something that you really need to know how to do for your first ICA S and even later on down the line. Um And what a difference journal club made um and engaging with co did so they're really useful sessions. If you're gonna prioritize anything, I'd say those. Um And in terms of the lectures, I'm sure, you know, everyone goes on about how in fourth year, the lectures are great because we're not assessed on the material. So you don't necessarily need to memorize everything. So you can kind of, you know, pick the things that you're interested in that you're going to focus on. But I would recommend trying to be pretty engaged with the lectures. Um just because a lot of them will cover topics that you want to either decide are kind of your thing or not your thing. So when you're coming to picking projects later down the line, and you're trying to find an area of repro that you can read 100s of papers about, you know, what to kind of rule out and what to lean towards. And additionally, a lot of the lecturers are also supervisors and I'm sure a lot of people have already mentioned, getting to know the supervisors and getting to know who you probably work best with is absolutely crucial for having a really good final project and a really good experience in third time in general. So I would recommend just somewhat engaging as much as you can with the lectures that are just informative. Um And if you have questions or want to speak to the lecturers afterwards, do. Um one thing that's really good about repro is we get given a list of projects really early on. I think it was late October, early November. Um And so you get given a lot of time and they expect you to approach the um, supervisors and I would really encourage doing that. Um Speaking to your supervisors working out whether you guys are kind of, you know, gonna match up and vibe very well. Um Yeah, and then also, um, use the BSE buddy scheme. Um I think a DT is the um uh OB so PSC coordinator and I'm sure she has been in contact with you guys already. If not, she will be soon arranging a BCA PSE buddy project. Um It's really, really important to have that older year who, you know, you can turn to message, um who can give you constructive criticism, who can give you guidance, that's repro specific. Um I don't think I used my BSC buddy enough last year and which is why I'm really, really emphasizing it. We're really lucky to have this scheme within repro. Um So, yeah, make use of that. Um And then finally arranged socials, we had a social sac for repro last year and we had socials such as like ice skating and dinners out and some of the faculty were invited to and it was such a nice kind of like bonding experience that wasn't, you know, shared trauma from I CS and we would organize to have them immediately after big deadlines. Um And it was always something great to look forward to and it really meant that um I think our fourth year experience was a lot better. Um So do you know, make you see your social sex and um, yeah, do your socials. Um That's all of my kind of quick fire advice for now. I'll again put my short code in the chat and um feel free to message me um or email me uh or any questions now. Go ahead. But yeah, thanks very much Lennon. Oh, great. Uh Thank you so much for speaking um wer today that was really, really nice. Um And, and next we're going to um move on to search tech. I'm just gonna uh quickly change the slides around cos we do um uh we've got uh adw and also and shy um who have some slides as well. Um So yeah, let me just do that quickly. Ok? Um So all sorted um whenever you guys are ready, um uh take it away. Uh Hi guys. Uh My name is a um I'm presenting with um Lemon is she should be here. I'm here, I'm here. Sorry, I was having issues. All right, fantastic. Um Can we go to the next slide if possible? I don't have control over it? Oh, thank you. Um So structure is the same for all BSE S so I'm not going to waste my time talking about it. I'm sure you guys have heard everything about it. Term one is mainly sort of, you know, lecture based, but the important things for you to know is one there's no need to learn any of the content from the lectures. They're purely for interest, but most importantly, they're for networking. For example, you'll have an orthopedic skills day, you'll have an upper gi breath lab day, you'll have a, a trauma neurosurgery type day. Uh You have a reproductive day. Um So all of these will be delivered by pretty much the finest surgeons that Imperial has to offer. So I would highly recommend um going up to these people asking them questions about their job, asking questions about what research they have going on and if possible, and you're really, really interested in one of the days and you know, something that you heard about, really intrigued, you go up to them and ask them if you can do your final project with them. I know a couple of people who did stuff that way and they started their research project earlier than turn three. And, you know, it does give you a bit of an advantage if you do want to go down that route. Um There are sometimes, you know, things that you'll definitely know that you're not interested in, um feel free to, you know, take those day o days off and do something more productive with your time, like working towards an ICA. Um The other thing that I highly recommend going to is a surgical simulation days. Um They're led by Stefan A. He's lovely. But b um you'll get to do what you actually signed up to do the course for which is a good amount of um surgical exposure to laparoscopic techniques and also um suturing and bowel anastomosis and that type of stuff. Um There's a good amount of group work. So your small group will become, you know, your friends pretty quickly because you need to do all your formative with them. But then the final sort of uh like the actual ICA itself would be individual, I'd say for formative uh for ICA one, you guys are probably one of the few BSE S that need to choose your own paper. And I know some of you had questions about that. Um I'm happy to do a sort of talk after this uh about more specific questions just because we don't have enough time um in 6 to 7 minutes to get through it. But there are very specific ways of, you know, going through, selecting the right paper, making sure that it's something that a you're comfortable appraising. Um And B that you'll be good at appraising. Um and things like that, you'll realize that, you know, Richie Stefan Eduardo, they're all like a really specific type of writing, a really specific type of analysis and it just takes some time to learn it. So, yeah. Um So most people um in other courses will do an oral presentation for their IC too. Um But s are one of the few courses where they'll make you do a 10 minute video instead. And this video has to be basically appraising a topic or it has to be a controversial surgical topic. You could be comparing two different surgical techniques, um two different approaches. Um something along those lines, but it has to be in the form of a 10 minute video. It is essentially the same thing as a normal presentation. But the key thing here is the storytelling aspect of it. So across the next few weeks, you may have some lectures about storytelling and how to get messages across to people. And unless they've changed the brief for the task, you can't aim it to um like a surgical audience, you have to aim it to the layperson. So a lot of it is essentially dumbing down a lot of the information that you read in papers to make us people like, you know, in first years or uni students understand what's going on, which is the most challenging aspect because you can't just kind of do your work as you usually would um above the critical appraisal side of things. A lot of it's script writing um really making sure that every single word that you're saying, every single sentence that you're saying has a meaning. Eduardo really draw this, this into us in our first term and I'm sure he would do the same thing for you guys. But every single sentence, everything you say has to have some form of purpose. It sounds really daunting, but you'll get used to it. By the end, it's just something to be conscious about right now. And it's also about having video and content creation skills, editing skills. Um They'll also do a session where they teach you how to use some software, how to record these videos, how to edit these videos and add special effects and things. So that's definitely a session you don't want to miss and again, the storytelling, um they'll do some sessions on this if you tell your story, well, you'll score well, people who didn't score so well in IC two are the people who didn't manage to get the story across. So you really want to take a step back once you've kind of come up with your script and be like, does this make sense? Does this flow and this is very different to what other people and other BS es do? So when you go to speak to them, you won't necessarily be able to relate. So yeah, pay attention for this and you can start planning for this. Um a lot sooner than you may do for a letter to the editor, for example. Uh All right. Fantastic. So turn two is a lot of, you know, independent working. Um So you have obviously the let the S IC um normally tech do the er S IC clinic just before er term one ends around Christmas time. Um I'd highly recommend going to that one cos I went to the one that was like in January or something. And then it got really tight for me to do the S IC and the LI review and you know, it just leads to so much stress at the end, it's not worth it because we have to look at some old writers and it's just a bit bad S IC is a R really just a poster. Um All of us older years will give you our posters. So you have a base idea. Um It's a balance between making the poster look really nice and having meaningful content on it. Um For example, my one probably had too much content on it and therefore didn't look as nice and she probably had the right balance of, you know, looks versus um actual content on it. So probably take her for that one. Later you, me and you were in the same group for that. Uh It was a pretty long, um long three weeks because you get your project, it's preassigned to you. So Emma Carrington will walk in one day be like, OK, group A has this group, group two has this et cetera. So you don't get to choose your topic. Um And once you're given a topic, the only choice that you have is a, how much sort of depth you go into it and b uh what your supervisor wants you to do. Um So we had a urology based one with uh Professor Mark strake. It was good. We got a reasonable amount of support, but in the end, it was a lot of us spending time uh screening papers figuring out for ourselves how much depth to go into. So one thing that would be good around that time is to, you know, again, get in touch with us and then get our thoughts on, you know, what is this? OK, because there's a difference between a systematic review and a literature review. And with Search Tech, it's very easy to, to think. OK? I need to go in depth, I need to go in depth. But then you end up going to the other side of things and doing like a systematic review which is not what they want. So stick to the brief that you're given and leave yourself time. The one thing I would highly recommend is whatever your deadline is, pretend the deadline is one day before because you wanna leave around about 24 hours for you to get some rest and then read through your entire lip review again with a fresh set of eyes. Uh and you will pick up mistakes, you'll pick up things that don't flow and it will synthesize your stuff a lot better because if everyone writes different bits and then it doesn't flow, they'll realize straight away and you won't do very well. Uh And the last thing is communicate with your group pretty simple to say, but tell them in advance days you can't do because uh and how much a you're willing to commit and b what you want out of it because it makes everyone else's life easier if you're honest and you don't BS around. So, yeah. Um and then term three, you have your project. Um again, can't really give you much advice on this because it's very, very project specific and all of the projects and such vary between all the specialties in terms of the quality, the amount of work you're required to do. Um And you've probably heard most of it in the talk so far, but I would suggest starting to write early. Um If you can get your intro and your methods done, the sooner the better it is because those are the two sections that require the most refining and take the most time to actually do. So if the earlier you do it, you know, the, the quicker you've got that out of the way and you can focus on things like your results and your figures start referencing early. This is something I did the night before the deadline. It took me about three hours to do my referencing at 1 a.m. would not recommend um as in as and when you read papers, please just use the software like mentally or site this for me.com or ref works, just start making your bibliography on your reference list as soon as possible because it will save you that valuable time at the end where you can be doing much more thing, like better things like actually reading your work, um, come up with your points of discussion earlier than later. Um And then it just means you have time to build on them. Um Sometimes these points come up after you've had a discussion with your supervisors later on, but that's fine. As long as you have a rough outline at the start about the kind of thing you want to be talking about. Um It's always better and also engage with the forms. Um In serge, we have a mock oral presentation, I think a week before the actual one and they give genuine feedback, they give you really, really useful feedback more than they do in the other formative throughout the year and make sure you act on these because people like Richie Stefan, um Michael Joanna, they will be marking your summative as well. So unconsciously, they will know if you've kind of acted on their feedback or not, if you've changed things based on what they've said or not. So that's definitely the most important thing. And again, the biggest thing is storytelling. Take a step back at every single stage where you're making any kind of progress and ask yourself, does this make sense? Does this flow? So because your dissertation is going to be 5000 words long, it's really easy to kind of just focus on one section at a time. You need to make sure that there's flow between all of those sections and this is what the markers really, really look for and they'll pick it out and they'll put it in your feedback. If at any point, it doesn't make any sense. That's the main thing with surgery. It has to, your story has to make sense at every single point. Uh, ok. Ok. So it's a wrap up. Um, probably say it is a tough degree in the sense that you do need to put in a lot of work to do. Well. Um you can do very well. I think, contrary to, you know, what was in the past where it seemed really hard to get a first, you know, you can get a first. You just need to work really hard for it. They don't give anything to you easily and if it is even slightly sub par, like they will crack down on it hard. Um But it's also the perfect opportunity for networking, getting to know uh like really good surgeons in the field that you're interested in and those connections will hopefully stay for the next few years going ahead. Um As you know, long into the time that you're a doctor and don't be afraid to ask support from the modulator, especially for example, Eduardo Rie, um uh especially like they ran separate feedback sessions for us and separate, you know, help sessions just because we were like, look, we're not getting enough help. Um And you haven't given enough, given us enough time. Uh We get less time than everyone else at the ICA three, for example. Um So just stick up for what's right. And you know, if you need more time, say that you need more than whatever, you know, the six days or seven days that they give you compared to other people. Um Yeah, and in terms of what you can be doing to improve your research skills, just keep reading papers over and over again. Um So especially when you're picking your paper for a letter to the editor, you'll start to see the, the format in which research is expressed and written and you know, the more you read, the more tuned you'll become to the way these people do that stuff. Um, and that will help you when you eventually come to do your IC three, your oral presentation, your final report as well. And as why Aws kind of said it's had so just had a reputation for having a really steep learning curve. It's true bit. It's nothing you can't handle. You've made it this far and all it takes is a little push. It's gonna be tough, but you can definitely do it. And yeah, good luck. We'll put our short codes on the chat and any questions just direct them to us. Um, greater. Yeah, really? Thank, thanks a lot for that. Um Guys, that was a really nice comprehensive um review of surgery, although I know you guys didn't have much time. Um but yeah, thanks again. Um Yeah, direct your questions towards um and, and uh with that we're gonna move on to um, what have we got next? We're gonna move on to rest. Um I'm just gonna change your side deck again. Um, bear with me for 30 seconds. Um, but we've got Paolo who's gonna be talking to you a little bit about that. Hello? Can I just check? Everyone can hear me? Uh Yeah, we can hear you. Um That's great. Ok, perfect. I don't have any specific slides. Um but I did make some notes which I have here on my phone, I'll just be talking about it through it with you guys. Um First of all, well done in choosing rest might be the best decision you done in your whole entire life. I enjoyed myself a lot during rest. Um and I didn't regret it one bit. It was my second choice but I'm so glad I didn't get my first choice afterwards um because it's, it's honestly just great Louise and Duncan are great. Enjoy yourself in term one. You get to do a lot of quizzes every Friday but not um very serious quizzes. You get to go in groups and stuff and it's really fun. So do enjoy yourselves. One thing I would say with your first IC, the letter to the editor, you don't get much support. Um So do your own research get started on it early. Look at your dates. Um because for me, I kind of realized it a bit too late, the, the date of submission for ICA one. and I was, I was rushed with it IC two for the, for the presentation. Have fun with it. I honestly did a med Vape and I got really good grade for it. So it doesn't have to be good at all. Um It doesn't have to be a great idea, but as long as you justify it, you have fun with it. They really like good presentation skills. That's what they're really assessing there. So as long as you follow the brief, you are golden um for the ICI think it is one second I say too, you get to do like a lab that maybe lab project, which is really nice, but you do get quite a lot of support for that. So don't worry, Louise will go through it with you. Um especially the statistical part and everything. So don't worry about that too much. Um IC five, which is the case presentation, sick project kind of thing. You don't get much guidance for that. Those were, were the two that I struggled with the most, even though they were apparently supposed to be the easier ICA one, the letter to the editor and ICA five, they're sick project. Um Make sure to do your own research, read loads of cases, case presentations before um, writing and submitting your own. Um But the most important thing I'd say for you guys, please research your supervisors. Uh There's been some horror stories with well known people at our university that are supervisors and are not great supervisors. So please research your supervisors. Pay them a visit. Ask people that done the project before you that had the same supervisor. Like I'm sure the older guys will be happy to tell you what was good and what wasn't. Um I loved my supervisor. Honestly, I had k he's up on the fourth floor if you guys wanna pay a visit. So if you, if you can get him because he was great. Um Each meeting with your supervisor, I'd say if he allows you or she allows you to record the meeting because it can get quite a lot quite quickly. Um And I felt like taking notes were very hectic for me. So, um if I could go back, I would have recorded each meeting that we had. Um But other than that, that is, oh, basically have fun. It's a really, really good um really good BSE to do and I'll just tell you guys one story. Like, don't stress too much if you do badly in one of the ICA S. Um I did really badly in my IC five. but I managed to go above and beyond in my project and it ended up securing it first in the end. Um So it's not the end of the world if you guys do a bad ICA. OK. Um So yeah, I think that that's all for me. I just wanted to give some quick pointers to you guys basically have fun. Louisa and Duncan are amazing.