Hi! Thanks very much for such informative videos! Can you please talk about a typical day in MSc in clinical and therapeutic neuroscience in each term and how you select your projects..etc…Many thanks
hi oxblue, thank you for your comment! A typical day would be like this: lectures in the morning, project meeting/work on the project, the head to the hospital for labs if there's any, work on the essays in the evening. For selecting projects, I covered a lot in this MSc Q&A video: th-cam.com/video/t9GA30mvJcc/w-d-xo.html For me personally, I have chosen based on my interest in the field and my skillsets - both of my projects involved heavy data analysis/coding. hope this helps!
Hi, thank you for this video! I am applying to this program this year but I am not confident about my grades. I understand it is a competitive program to get into so I was wondering if you could you share about what kind of skill sets this program is looking for in applicants? Or, how to strengthen your application in extra curriculars? Thank you!
hi akiho, thank you for your interest. From my understanding, although grades are important, your application is reviewed based on all materials you applied to. I have a friend who got a low 2:1 but received several fully funded PhD places because she has really strong research experience (several lab rotations + some publications). The skill sets this program is looking for is primarily research skills - you need to demonstrate that you can work on a scientific project with only little guidance along the way; some ways to show this is by quoting prior research experience and skills you have learned in your personal statement (e.g., data analysis skills, working with multi-dimensional data, working with many different types, coding ability OR a lot of patient facing experience, collecting patients data, undertaken work in a clinical setting). Extra curricular activities are not one of the evaluation criteria so I strongly recommend only give 1-2 sentences for it since you only have 500 words for your personal statement. hope this helps! leave any more questions in the comment and i'll try my best to help. good luck with your application!
Hey nana great video! I'm going to be starting the same masters this october so super useful! Would love to hear more about your project and how you find the whole process :P also which college were you at, and any advice on accomodation?
Hi Jed, well done for getting in! I am at the Queen's College under a scholarship. In my other videos, I have very detailed break down about choosing accommodation & information on colleges, hope these help!
Hey! Informative video, thanks for that. I am a design undergrad from India and I want to pursue Experience design from a neuroscience lens. I am finding it extremely difficult to find the right words or to articulate the details for the same. Can you help me with that? It is being a big blocker in my search for the right academic environment. Thanks
hi abhishek, that is such an interesting field you are pursuing! Would you please give me more details on what you do and exactly what you need help with?
Thanks for this video! I'm thinking about applying to this course but my undergraduate is in psychology - would you say it's harder for those with a psychology background to be considered for this course given the heavy scientific content of the MSc? If so, did you have any extra experience to support your application given that your undegrad was also psychology-based? Thanks :)
Hi Nana- thanks so much for your video- its very useful! I was wondering what you had on your CV when you applied e.g. publications etc? Did you complete any projects that helped you- or do some extra reading which helped in the interview? Also- did they ask questions which required scientific knowledge? Thanks so much for this again- I really appreciate your time!
Hi Manu, im glad you found it helpful! According to the course admission website (www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-clinical-therapeutic-neuroscience), "Publications are not expected but, when documented on CVs, will be taken into account." In my case, I did have a 1st author peer-review publication in a journal. I completely two main project prior to this master, one is a summer research internship and the other one is the final year research project. I didn't take the interview as I was offered a place directly; but I do have some info on the interview process for this master from a friend. I could make a video about it if that would help
@@v-hydroxytryptamine Hi Nana- thank you so much for your response! If you could make a video about the interview process that would be tremendously helpful. Thanks so much for sharing this information its very useful- thanks for your time in putting this together!
Hi Justine, you do not need to contact supervisors in advance before applying for this course :) All project supervisors will be assigned during the course.
Hi Kunyi, love to meet you! I’m going to be on this programme this Oct! I want to know how do you feel about the qualification exam, and how hard it is? And also how big is the cohort? Is there many International students? Thank you🥰🥰🥰
hi yuhe, congratulations for getting into the program! The Qualification Exam is quite hard, but all you need is pass (i.e., 50 > 100) and everyone will pass (Phil, the program director, also didn't tell us our individual scores). The exam consisted of 100 multiple choice questions with 3 options for each question. I would say that this exam is easier for those with a biochem/biomed background than for those with a psychology background. The cohort is roughly 15 to 20 people, with quite a high proportion of international students. Hope this helps!
@@v-hydroxytryptamine Thank you so much Kina. I graduated from a biochem degree. Hope that helps🥲. How do you find writing those essays. I imagine them to be pretty long and 😧
@@yuhesu1854 The essays are alright! In total, we have to write six 3000 words essay (only the last four counted toward final mark) and two 6000 words dissertation, so it is quite challenging in the sense of time-management and getting everything done. However, we are allow to choose the topic of the essays ourselves, which definitely helps (meaning that you can pick topics you are confident about!)
hi Rafael, according to the Oxford application statistics, the course receives around 100 application per year and accepts around 20 students per year.
Hi Kina ! Thanks a lot for your inputs of this course! I’m currently doing my masters in neuroscience and am thinking of applying for this course too!
Hi! Thanks very much for such informative videos! Can you please talk about a typical day in MSc in clinical and therapeutic neuroscience in each term and how you select your projects..etc…Many thanks
hi oxblue, thank you for your comment! A typical day would be like this: lectures in the morning, project meeting/work on the project, the head to the hospital for labs if there's any, work on the essays in the evening. For selecting projects, I covered a lot in this MSc Q&A video: th-cam.com/video/t9GA30mvJcc/w-d-xo.html For me personally, I have chosen based on my interest in the field and my skillsets - both of my projects involved heavy data analysis/coding. hope this helps!
@@v-hydroxytryptamine Thank you so much!!
Hi, thank you for this video! I am applying to this program this year but I am not confident about my grades. I understand it is a competitive program to get into so I was wondering if you could you share about what kind of skill sets this program is looking for in applicants? Or, how to strengthen your application in extra curriculars? Thank you!
hi akiho, thank you for your interest. From my understanding, although grades are important, your application is reviewed based on all materials you applied to. I have a friend who got a low 2:1 but received several fully funded PhD places because she has really strong research experience (several lab rotations + some publications). The skill sets this program is looking for is primarily research skills - you need to demonstrate that you can work on a scientific project with only little guidance along the way; some ways to show this is by quoting prior research experience and skills you have learned in your personal statement (e.g., data analysis skills, working with multi-dimensional data, working with many different types, coding ability OR a lot of patient facing experience, collecting patients data, undertaken work in a clinical setting). Extra curricular activities are not one of the evaluation criteria so I strongly recommend only give 1-2 sentences for it since you only have 500 words for your personal statement. hope this helps! leave any more questions in the comment and i'll try my best to help. good luck with your application!
@@v-hydroxytryptamine thank you!
Is there a master in general Psychology at Oxford? And can I enter if I come from Portugal 🇵🇹 with a degree in Art?
Hey nana great video! I'm going to be starting the same masters this october so super useful! Would love to hear more about your project and how you find the whole process :P
also which college were you at, and any advice on accomodation?
Hi Jed, well done for getting in! I am at the Queen's College under a scholarship. In my other videos, I have very detailed break down about choosing accommodation & information on colleges, hope these help!
Hey! Informative video, thanks for that.
I am a design undergrad from India and I want to pursue Experience design from a neuroscience lens. I am finding it extremely difficult to find the right words or to articulate the details for the same. Can you help me with that? It is being a big blocker in my search for the right academic environment.
Thanks
hi abhishek, that is such an interesting field you are pursuing! Would you please give me more details on what you do and exactly what you need help with?
Thanks for this video! I'm thinking about applying to this course but my undergraduate is in psychology - would you say it's harder for those with a psychology background to be considered for this course given the heavy scientific content of the MSc? If so, did you have any extra experience to support your application given that your undegrad was also psychology-based? Thanks :)
Hey, I'd love to know what you found regarding this! I'm completing my Psych BSc and looking at this course for my masters.
Hi Nana- thanks so much for your video- its very useful! I was wondering what you had on your CV when you applied e.g. publications etc? Did you complete any projects that helped you- or do some extra reading which helped in the interview? Also- did they ask questions which required scientific knowledge? Thanks so much for this again- I really appreciate your time!
Hi Manu, im glad you found it helpful! According to the course admission website (www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/msc-clinical-therapeutic-neuroscience), "Publications are not expected but, when documented on CVs, will be taken into account." In my case, I did have a 1st author peer-review publication in a journal. I completely two main project prior to this master, one is a summer research internship and the other one is the final year research project. I didn't take the interview as I was offered a place directly; but I do have some info on the interview process for this master from a friend. I could make a video about it if that would help
@@v-hydroxytryptamine Hi Nana- thank you so much for your response! If you could make a video about the interview process that would be tremendously helpful. Thanks so much for sharing this information its very useful- thanks for your time in putting this together!
@@ManuKumar-vi9hy hi Manu, the video about the interview process is out~ : th-cam.com/video/sv2j2YJq7kA/w-d-xo.html
Hi! I am thinking about applying this year :) Do you have to contact supervisors in advance (before applying)?
Hi Justine, you do not need to contact supervisors in advance before applying for this course :) All project supervisors will be assigned during the course.
Hi Kunyi, love to meet you! I’m going to be on this programme this Oct! I want to know how do you feel about the qualification exam, and how hard it is? And also how big is the cohort? Is there many International students? Thank you🥰🥰🥰
hi yuhe, congratulations for getting into the program! The Qualification Exam is quite hard, but all you need is pass (i.e., 50 > 100) and everyone will pass (Phil, the program director, also didn't tell us our individual scores). The exam consisted of 100 multiple choice questions with 3 options for each question. I would say that this exam is easier for those with a biochem/biomed background than for those with a psychology background. The cohort is roughly 15 to 20 people, with quite a high proportion of international students. Hope this helps!
@@v-hydroxytryptamine Thank you so much Kina. I graduated from a biochem degree. Hope that helps🥲. How do you find writing those essays. I imagine them to be pretty long and 😧
@@yuhesu1854 The essays are alright! In total, we have to write six 3000 words essay (only the last four counted toward final mark) and two 6000 words dissertation, so it is quite challenging in the sense of time-management and getting everything done. However, we are allow to choose the topic of the essays ourselves, which definitely helps (meaning that you can pick topics you are confident about!)
@@v-hydroxytryptamine great! Thanks so much🥳
How hard is it to get into the program?
hi Rafael, according to the Oxford application statistics, the course receives around 100 application per year and accepts around 20 students per year.