| 1 | University of Helsinki | Translational Medicine - Connecting life sciences and medical research... | 8122 | | 5 | 55.3 | positive | 2:14 | Hi, my name is Usha and I'm studying translational medicine here in the University of Helsinki. I did my bachelor's in biotechnology from India and I'm currently working as a research assistant in Hartman Institute. I wanted to study my master's in, of course, such that it gives me a bridge between the basic life sciences and also the medicine side. But what's interesting about Transmed is that you don't really have to have a bachelor's degree, especially focusing on life sciences, because we have had many students who are from a completely different background. Many of the courses involves a lot of teamwork and also there are different kind of courses which are mixed together. For example, we have laboratory techniques and then we have the bioinformatics and statistics. And apart from these courses, we also have, for example, clinical rounds where we get to actually go and do a little bit of an internship kind of a thing in the hospitals here in Finland. And that is really good because it gives you a completely different perspective of the healthcare from the other side. The very like about Finland is that they promote interdisciplinary education. It's not always focused on one thing but then how all the people from different faculties and departments can come together and work. And another thing which I really like is to infidelent apart from your studies, you can carry out with a lot of different extra-curricular activities. And the best part is you get great for it and credits for it and then you can use that in your normal degree curriculum. Helsinki has a really good international student community and there are a lot of different events that you can participate in being an international student, which is really nice to get to know like the other international students and as well as the Finnish students and the Finnish culture or inter-enrollment. You | ↗ |
| 2 | University of Helsinki | Studying Translational Medicine – Straightforward to become a research... | 2480 | | | 45.4 | | 2:46 | I'm Juan, I'm from Argentina originally, but I studied in the Faculty of Science of this university. I'm in the final year of Transmed and I am working in a laboratory for mitochondrial medicine. So it was pretty straightforward to become a researcher here because it usually Transmed students are pretty valued in the labs and it's quite nice that usually the offers go around and then we can do some kind of internship and then we can start with a thesis project or some trial period. My plan for now would be to stay here for PhD since some of my projects will go forward to the doctoral studies and I have some other side projects that will also join that and then in the future probably staying academia or go to companies but for now, pre-PhD for sure. The study program in Transmed was pretty well designed to fit all the cutting-edge knowledge of the field. It really combines pretty nicely the medical knowledge with applied specific scientific technologies and I think it was very useful, especially being in the same building as most of the research labs that was quite handy because then I could work at the same time as attending the lectures and learn things that I could directly apply in the lab so I think it was very nicely coordinated. The atmosphere in Transmed is very international usually like most people are international students and there is also some fins so it's really interesting to be in such an international environment and have to usually a lot of the courses are involve a lot of group work and discussion and that's really nice kind of to learn how to interact with other people from other cultures and practice English of course and then just work together for that and it generates quite a quite a nice group. Housing is a pretty great city to study and I personally really enjoy it. It's very easy to settle down, everything works very nicely and is very well organized and then studying here I mean all the studies are in English and usually most people are pretty good at speaking English so it goes very smoothly and I think the student life is very interesting and I really like it. Finnish universities are different in my opinion to other places because they usually put much less pressure or stress on you and it's usually depends up to you how the speed you want to do your studies in and how much you want to coordinate it with sidewalk so it really I feel that it really allowed me to work at the same time and work at my own pace and at the end most of us ended up doing it in the right time but there's much less stress behind it and not so much kind of pressure. | ↗ |