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[Medman]

Can confirm that this isn't true. It's not about demand, they only take .95ers full stop.

I've only ever heard of 99.95's receiving interview offers. If you count music/medicine that's a different story. I don't know why I would be almighty here because there's quite a few people with more in depth knowledge in other areas. I only know of portions of the entry criteria in depth but definitely not everything.

For those that want to plan their career ahead. This would be a helpful start. The hours of work is severely underreported because people don't apply for overtime often to put themselves in a better "light". http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/Pages/career-planning.aspx

 

[tofusenpai]

If I take medicine in Uni can I also take a course in Media/PR

 

[Queenroot]

If I take medicine in Uni can I also take a course in Media/PR

You will either have to take a combined degree of med/arts and major in that
Or I think if you go through USYD's provisional entry you can complete and undergrad degree beforehand and then do your MBBS degree.

 

[tofusenpai]

You will either have to take a combined degree of med/arts and major in that
Or I think if you go through USYD's provisional entry you can complete and undergrad degree beforehand and then do your MBBS degree.

Do you know how long it'll take?

 

[Queenroot]

Do you know how long it'll take?

med/arts is 7 years

provisional entry is 3 or 4 years of whatever undergrad degree you choose and then 4 years of med, so essentially it's 7/8 yrs

 

[MiseryParade]

If I take medicine in Uni can I also take a course in Media/PR

You could take a course in media/PR if you do medicine at UNSW, since there are compulsory general education subjects you need to take. You could even do arts/medicine at UNSW if you want to delve further into media/PR, although admittedly I'm not sure if that's counted under arts or not.

 

[tofusenpai]

You could take a course in media/PR if you do medicine at UNSW, since there are compulsory general education subjects you need to take. You could even do arts/medicine at UNSW if you want to delve further into media/PR, although admittedly I'm not sure if that's counted under arts or not.

Thanks will take note and I'll see what it's under

You could take a course in media/PR if you do medicine at UNSW, since there are compulsory general education subjects you need to take. You could even do arts/medicine at UNSW if you want to delve further into media/PR, although admittedly I'm not sure if that's counted under arts or not.

 

[Queenroot]

Wait but my friend said you didnt get 99.95? How are you in usyd med then? ._.


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SMH SO MUCH

Please stay in year 10 you still have a lot more learning to do

 

[BlugyBlug]

Wait but my friend said you didnt get 99.95? How are you in usyd med then? ._.


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Most people do med at USYD through graduate entry. They do an undergrad degree (can be anything, but science/med science is probably the best for obvious reasons) and complete gamsat/interview and only then can they begin studying medicine.

If you got 99.95 in high school, however, you can start your undergraduate degree at usyd with a 'guarantee' that you'll start studying medicine after you've completed your undergrad, without doing gamsat. (It's not really a guarantee, you have to get a credit average or something but that's probably a cakewalk given that they got 99.95)

Only a small portion of usyd med students actually got 99.95. Think about it haha, sydney medical school would get nowhere if it admitted only 30-40 people a year.

Because most people on this forum are undergrads/future undergrads you'll hear more people talking about the undergrad usyd med entry, I guess.

 

[Schmeag]

As for me, I ended up taking an SRMO position last year, and will be doing a bit of locuming for the next 6 months, before going for a reg job.

Congratulations on the registrar job! If you don't mind my asking, how are you finding locuming: do you get wide variety of jobs or is it mainly ED? How is the work-life balance?

 

[Havox]

Congratulations on the registrar job! If you don't mind my asking, how are you finding locuming: do you get wide variety of jobs or is it mainly ED? How is the work-life balance?

SRMO is a Senior Resident Medical Officer

 

[Schmeag]

SRMO is a Senior Resident Medical Officer

Why are you telling me this?
Hasn't he got a registrar position in the second half of this year? I assume he is job sharing, unless he meant applying for a registrar position (in which case, good luck patpatpat).

 

[lil_stassa]

Just wondering,

If I apply for the Bonded Medical Placings Scheme, would I be allowed to apply for a scholarship like the ADF Medicine Scholarship which also requires a return service period? The BMP stated that 'Students who agree to take up a new medical school place through BMP Scheme are able to apply for other Australian Government or State Government assistance schemes such as RAMUS so I'm not too sure if the ADF scholarship would fall under this.

Thanks

 

[patpatpat]

Shameless bumping

 

[INADIKAP95]

I wonder if Dentistry is similar?

 

[enigma_1]

I wonder if Dentistry is similar?

Probs

 

[Schmeag]

I wonder if Dentistry is similar?

My impression is that dentistry is a lot more relaxing at least during the initial postgraduate years. You also earn a lot more if that matters to you.

There's a higher suicide rate among dentists than doctors, so that's something worth noting--might be a lower rate of job satisfaction, but that is just speculation.

 

[medicinestudent]

i dont know if it has been said but the rural bonded scholarship has be discontinued by the government.

it's was a great read and as an aspiring med student who really wants to get in, the bonded scholarship scheme seems like a good option. i heard in unsw anyway that if your combined score is high enough, they first offer you a non-bonded place into med anyway

 

[Oer]

i dont know if it has been said but the rural bonded scholarship has be discontinued by the government.

it's was a great read and as an aspiring med student who really wants to get in, the bonded scholarship scheme seems like a good option. i heard in unsw anyway that if your combined score is high enough, they first offer you a non-bonded place into med anyway

I think you're confusing the Bonded Medical Places (BMP) scheme with the Rural Bonded Scholarship (RBS), which is an entirely separate thing.

BMP is normal Commonwealth-Supported Places that carry the extra condition that you have to do a service period in an area of med, usually somewhere rural or remote. It sounds like you were talking about this (unless I'm mistaken), but this still exists.

The RBS was a system for a much smaller group of people, where they would actually be paid something like $25k a year for the length of their degree. In return, they committed to 6 years of working rural after specialisation.

Unfortunately the RBS has indeed been axed for future years, and the RBS places have been turned into extra BMP places. I think that the RBS was a very useful thing for some people though. I have a friend on the RBS who's already done wonderful things for the rural community, and the money's gone a long way to support them in their studies.

 

[medicinestudent]

The RBS was a system for a much smaller group of people, where they would actually be paid something like $25k a year for the length of their degree. In return, they committed to 6 years of working rural after specialisation.

that makes sense. thanks for clearing it up