Student reviews
What is studying medicine at City St George's, University of London actually like?
The interview gets you a place; these reports are about the five or six years after that. Gathered from current student and recent graduate forums, weighted by how many independent sources agree. These are unverified community reports, not official university information.
6 reports
Teaching quality is genuinely polarising among students: some single out excellent, engaged lecturers, especially in pharmacology and anatomy, while others in the same building say certain lecturers cannot teach effectively and that lecture attendance in the biomedical/preclinical cohort is so low it is barely worth holding sessions in person since everything is recorded.
Several reports · 2 sources(spans several cycles)
Teaching quality is genuinely polarising among students: some single out excellent, engaged lecturers, especially in pharmacology and anatomy, while others in the same building say certain lecturers cannot teach effectively and that lecture attendance in the biomedical/preclinical cohort is so low it is barely worth holding sessions in person since everything is recorded.
"we have fantastic lecturers for Pharmacology...and Anatomy especially"
Life of a Medic blog, quote from Beth, current SGUL medical student"lecturers are just incompetent and can't teach so you end up teaching a lot of it to yourself... only 30 out of 200 students attend biomed lectures, there's literally no point"
The Student Room, Avoid st georges for med or biomed thread (search-snippet paraphrase)The single most-repeated distinguishing feature students volunteer unprompted is that the campus sits literally inside St George's Hospital (the site used to film 24 Hours in A&E), giving early first-year clinical exposure without a commute, though from year three placements rotate out to Kingston, Croydon, St Helier and Epsom, which are a real journey from Tooting.
Several reports · 2 sources(spans several cycles)
The single most-repeated distinguishing feature students volunteer unprompted is that the campus sits literally inside St George's Hospital (the site used to film 24 Hours in A&E), giving early first-year clinical exposure without a commute, though from year three placements rotate out to Kingston, Croydon, St Helier and Epsom, which are a real journey from Tooting.
"the campus is literally INSIDE the hospital, and yes, it's the hospital where they film 24 Hours in A&E! I personally found this was so helpful once I started placement"
Life of a Medic blog, quote from Beth, current SGUL medical student"I get to have early clinical exposure from the very 1st year."
6med St George's Medical School Review, quote from Akshanya, current SGUL medical studentTooting itself splits opinion hard: some students call it a cool, characterful area with a market and food scene and love the Northern line link into central London, while others in the same forum call the area outside food options dead, saying there is no social life beyond a tight medic bubble unless you join societies like rugby.
Several reports · 2 sources(spans several cycles)
Tooting itself splits opinion hard: some students call it a cool, characterful area with a market and food scene and love the Northern line link into central London, while others in the same forum call the area outside food options dead, saying there is no social life beyond a tight medic bubble unless you join societies like rugby.
"Tooting is a really cool place to be at because there's really nice food places and a really quirky Tooting Market which has small bars etc... Being in London means an amazing social life!"
The Student Room, St Georges Uni of London, what's it like there? thread (search-snippet paraphrase)"No student life unless you want to join the rugby lads; Tooting is dead"
The Student Room, Avoid st georges for med or biomed thread (search-snippet paraphrase)Because the whole university is squeezed into one building (Hunter Wing) on the hospital site, students describe constantly running into the same faces for years; this reads as a strong sense of community to some, but others describe seeing the same small group of people every day for three-plus years and say the small size can feel more like a sixth form than a university.
Several reports · 2 sources(spans several cycles)
Because the whole university is squeezed into one building (Hunter Wing) on the hospital site, students describe constantly running into the same faces for years; this reads as a strong sense of community to some, but others describe seeing the same small group of people every day for three-plus years and say the small size can feel more like a sixth form than a university.
"the majority of the University is situated in Hunter Wing, so you're constantly running into the other students on site, creates a really nice sense of community"
Life of a Medic blog, quote from Beth, current SGUL medical student"seeing the same 10 people every day for three plus years... more like a sixth form than a Uni"
The Student Room, Avoid st georges for med or biomed thread (search-snippet paraphrase)Students genuinely do cadaveric dissection, not just prosection viewing, in years one and two, and survey data of actual SGUL students found nearly half would rather learn anatomy through active dissection than via pre-dissected models, with a majority curious about the technique rather than dreading it.
Single report(spans several cycles)
Students genuinely do cadaveric dissection, not just prosection viewing, in years one and two, and survey data of actual SGUL students found nearly half would rather learn anatomy through active dissection than via pre-dissected models, with a majority curious about the technique rather than dreading it.
"47.6 per cent of participants agreed or strongly agreed that they would rather learn anatomy through active dissection than utilise pre-dissected models; only 23.8 per cent were worried about seeing a cadaver for the first time"
Peer-reviewed pilot study surveying SGUL medical students, Journal of Laryngology & Otology / PMCA named current student who otherwise rates the course highly still flags administrative disorganisation as the worst part of studying there, specifically last-minute timetable changes.
Single report(spans several cycles)
A named current student who otherwise rates the course highly still flags administrative disorganisation as the worst part of studying there, specifically last-minute timetable changes.
"The lack of organisational skills. Sometimes the admin is last minute with sending out timetables."
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