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Why many university student poor in english? how university can help them?

Hi, I am actually planning on going to University this year.Please help me...?

  • Okay, I really want to follow a university course on medical science and I am planning to do it in a Belgian University.Well, here's the deal, through all my secondary school years the syllabuses have been taught in english and I have taken all the exams in english as well but I am planning to pursue my University studies in Belgium at UCL, ULB or the University of Liege and follow a medical science course. The thing is that I am fluent in French but I don't know if all the technical scientific words will remain the same...so if you could please help me out with that. Also, almost everybody says that wanting to have a career in the medical field is really hard because the studies are really hard and it's better not to do it. Others have told me that it really is difficult but that if you really like it, it's gonna be okay (though they themselves said that they have on several occasions wanted to give everything up!!!) What I want to know is how far this is true and how your life really is or how it changes when you are studying medicine? By the way, I know that studying is never going to be easy and that you are always going to have to work a lot to achieve your aim but I just want to know how hard it really is... I have looked several times on the sites of the universities but they haven't said anything about that and I have until now not heard anything or had any contact with a student attending a Belgian University...so please do help me out Thanks beforehand ^_^

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    I have an American friend who had a four-year undergraduate degree (with honors) in French (from an American university) and then decided he wanted to study medicine. No university in the United States would give him the time of day so he applied to and was accepted at the ULB (French-speaking university in Brussels). Most, if not all of his medical texts were in English. He learned the Latin names for everything and did so brilliantly in his first year that he was head-hunted by a prominent medical school in America (where he eventually went on to win the neurology prize). He has worked for years now (back in the U.S.) in a very successful practice in systemic diseases. His take on medical school in Belgium was that it was quite rigorous, the expectations were very high...but doable. His French fluency helped him more in his day to day life and with contact with fellow students. He felt he got an extremely solid and thorough foundation at the Belgian university. If the quality of the doctors in Belgium is any indication, the schools here are excellent.

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First you should enlighten me: what is a course on medical science? Is that a straightforward medical career and one of the classic specialties? Then due to your linguistic skills you can only choose between the Université de Liege (Government) and Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve. This is the French Campus of UCL or rather Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Formerly KUL-UCL). If your head start spinning, wait until you are here. Then medical studies: in my time it was somewhat different from the American system: Year 1 and 2 were completely dedicated to extensive courses in Chemistry (organic and Inorganic) , Physics and Biology. Size of the courses: about 4000 pages each. Exams: 200 non multiple choice questions. Grades needed to pass: 12/20 A score of 8/20 meant exclusion: do it all over. In year 3 and 4 you started what is year one of the american med school. At the end of 7 years after finishing successfully school you could start your internship in an hospital which had accepted you based on your academic results. A rotation of 6x2 months in various specialties in shifts of 24 or even 36 hours. At the end you started writing letters to see where you would be accepted for your residence. And then if you decided on a specialty you would work and study as a resident during for ex. 3 years (ObGyn) or 6 years (Surgery). So there it is in a nutshell. Oh I forgot: all medical scientifical words in any language come from Greek and Latin roots: for ex: hypoglycemia: hypo = below, low; glykos= sugar = blood sugar level too low hyperglycemia = same but Hyper= high, too high. All the best.

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