ok i know u have to do GAMSAT/UMAT, but like say i dont make it first year as an undergrad, what do mots ppl do if they wanna to transfer into med in the future?
You never, ever transfer unless you're already in and you're switching from this to that.
For those in provisional courses, it's simply graduating from their first undergrad degree and starting the once-provisional med degree.
Dumbass.
You'll always make it as an undergrad, 'cuz you can't do postgrad if you haven't grad'd, DUUUHHH.
It's school leaver-entry you mean, but you fail to say.
P.S. You have to have a communicable level of written and spoken English.
BA is just as good, if not better.
BSc only fills your head with the crap you'll draw upon, but not really use, either. Also, you're in a huge mosh with all these other people, some of them aiming for HD's and D's to get into honours, maintain scholarships and special programs, get into medical/dental school or graduate-entry pharmacy, etc.
Eh, I don't care, and you can (choose to) work out your life; after all, you run your life, and your life revolves around yourself.
is the 'sciency' stuff in medical science heaps more 'dumbed down' than what it is in the medicine course?
Probably?
There's probably no clinical component to med. sci. degrees, or maybe it's hugely lacking. Definitely no clinical days to everything but health science, med, dent, and final-year pharm (which is kinda a whole year of supervised practice).
I did want to do medicine (to become a pathologist) but the public health kinda thing turned me away. So i opted for medical science at newcastle uni. I could have done medicine at new uni, but i didnt feel ready.
That, sir, is a rationalisation, or indicative of underlying issues with insecurity.
Epic mistake, prolly.
Shame that high paying pathology jobs require medicne, even though they dont treat patients directly and stay out of sight and out of mind.
Well, obv. path (college-accredited) require med. Without it, you're nothing.
Pathologists can choose to do clinical/primary care, research/secondary/other, or a combination of both; e.g. immunologists, or immunopathologists, are a prime example of pathologists that can undertake any of the three paths (although, primary care may require some training in internal medicine).
Perhaps you ought to check out the brochures for the Royal College of Pathologists of Australia.
Excuse me? I didn't hear you properly.
Med for Pay?
Please don't crush another person's true dreams and passions for a couple of stacks of plastic currency.
The Hell are you on about?
Unless you're whining about buying out of the bonded contract with the government, you should shut up and get a new perspective of how the world is and operates.
Want has nothing to do with what you get; you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometime you find that you get what you need.