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    Postgraduate Medicine

    No but postgrads can apply for the undergrad course. It's 5 years, gpa 5.5+, a good umat score is required + interview.
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    What Excercise Did You Do Today?

    Yesterday- 5 rounds for time of: 400m Run, 50 Situps, 30 Squats and 1 hr of cycling. Today- 21-15-9 reps of: MB Cleans, Pushups, Pullups, MB thrusters.
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    Can we sit for UMAT on an alternate date?

    Read the booklet there are misadventure procedures if you are unable to sit the exam, provided you have have documentation and contact them asap.
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    Does UWS do Biochemistry winter school?

    No, however if alot of people fail again this year they may run it again, but I doubt this will happen again.
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    LOSE your P LICENCE?

    Demerit points scheme If your on your Red P's you simply loose your licence for 3 months + and then you have to pay and have a new one taken at an RTA office. You don't have to start on your L's again.
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    Help with Med School Admissions statistics

    I think you should check out this forum www.pagingdr.proboards.com it's a forum solely for postgrad Australian med entry, gamsat, etc.
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    2009 Autumn Semester Examination Period

    The computer system f'd with everyones timetable this sem (i.e. grouped exams for certain courses, etc rather than spacing them out as usual), hopefully it won't happen next sem.
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    2009 Autumn Semester Examination Period

    8th, 9th and 10th, UWS fu*ked up the exam timetable for most students this sem. Which makes it hard for med kids including myself, who have to cover a sh*t load of content from different statistics, psychology, ethics, biochem, science, anatomy, radiography/physics lecturers/units, pracs etc...
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    UAC Preferences

    No, it also does not affect interview offers if you are successful. Also the university does not know the specific order of your preferences, and they cannot descriminiate you or question you in any way due to your preference order.
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    Level 3 NZQA and Australian Med Schools

    Your NZQA level 3 score(s) will be converted into a UAI by the Universities Admissions Centre which is a ranking. You will probably be given an interview over the phone or a late round interview(s) if you have a high enough NZQA 3/UAI equiv and the required umat score for the university...
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    Is Medicine really a hard course?

    All med schools as far as I'm aware in Australia still teach this history, the hippocratic oath or varient, as part of our professional development.
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    Medical science or Medical engineering

    Biomedical Engineering : The University of Melbourne CareerOne
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    Career change, what do I need to do?

    There are a couple of threads on MSO regarding HS in particular first year, discussion: All Otago HSFYers, listen up!! - Med Students Online Requirements for NZ Medical Schools (U'grad) - Med Students Online
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    Is it possible for ACER to change the entire Sec 1 and 3 this year

    They usually give hints or minute details of major changes to the UMAT test through the practice exams/the annual info booklet. For instance in 2007 they produced a new set of practice exams and also did not mention nor give examples in the 2007 exam info booklet that there would be...
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    Is Medicine really a hard course?

    Best of luck, yeah I should add that most students who get bonded places at UNSW and get a CSP place at UWS or either want to do a 5 year course instead of 6 come to UWS. This double-dipping and multiple applications by students who are usually all-rounders also subsequently leads to the...
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    Is Medicine really a hard course?

    Came straight from the deans mouth, and he came from U.melb (was deputy dean and foundation dean) and he's the editor of Australia's leading Gastroentrologist journal and one of the pioneers behind low dose aspirin calculation and gastro reasearch in Australia! So i think he knows how to...
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    Medical science or Medical engineering

    Ask your careers advisor or contact the uni's to ask for more info. Medical science focuses on laboratory work, pathology lab work, it can leard to equipment sales, research, etc. Whilst alot of the medical or biomedical engineering work is research or working for medical, biotech, nano...
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    quick question on umat/gamsat

    Umat is required for undergraduate dentistry courses such as the cousre at Charles Sturt at Orange, or Latrobe in Victoria, I think JCU's new dent course does not require umat. Gamsat is for graduate dentistry courses, where you have already completed or are completing an undergraduate...
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    Dermatology course [advice?]

    You need to do medicine > Internship + PGY2 > Enter the training program with the college of Physicians 5-6 years > dermatologist! Should take you at least 13-14+ years, good luck.
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