Where I Hide Between OSCEs

Tobias Adeyemi

@tobzmedstudent

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If you’re a medic in London you rapidly realise ‘going out’ usually means migrating to a different library with better plugs. This is my little circuit of places that make the endless anatomy flashcards, path playlists and existential dread slightly more bearable. Expect a mix of high-yield libraries, gloriously weird medical museums, and one very on-brand pub. Bring your own caffeine. And maybe your stethoscope. Just in case.

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Where I Hide Between OSCEs — 4 items
Name	Type	Address	City	Vibe	Best for	My take
1Science Museum – Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries	Medical history galleries inside science museum	Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD	London	Huge, shiny, and low-key full of exam questions	Remembering why you wanted to do medicine before the OSCEs broke you	You come ‘for fun’ and accidentally revise the entire history of anaesthesia. Great date spot if your idea of romance is murmuring about chloroform.
2Hunterian Museum	Surgical and anatomical museum	Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE	London	Beautiful, clinical, mildly haunted by 18th‑century surgeons	Path and anatomy visual learners who like their revision in jars	Walk round once for the vibes, twice for the anatomy, three times when finals are looming and you suddenly care deeply about horse hooves and comparative anatomy.
3British Library	National library and study fortress	96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB	London	Academic Thunderdome; silent, intense, slightly terrifying	Mega-cram days when you need fear and wifi in equal parts	You book a desk ‘just to do a bit of pharmacology’ and suddenly it’s dark, you haven’t moved for six hours and you’ve developed a deep emotional connection to your seat number.
4New Hunt’s House Library (Guy’s)	King’s campus biomedical library	New Hunt’s House, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT	London	Medics, dentists and laptops as far as the eye can see	Pre‑placement panic revision within sprinting distance of the hospital	My natural habitat. Close enough to Guy’s that you can ‘quickly’ run to the ward and somehow end up clerking three patients and missing your lunch. Again.

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