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Some of the previous posts have been incorrect - dermatology is NOT accredited by the College of Physicians (ie you don't do physician training to become a dermatologist) - you must apply to the Australasian College of Dermatologists to train in their program: Australasian College of...

The last two are essential if you have any intentions of keeping your knowledge up to date, and working in a teaching hospital with colleagues.

Eh, it headed off the inevitable, "omg so can I be a psychiatrist the year after I do internship?? Sweeeeet!" question. ;)

To be fair, they would also probably realise that the nomenclature and recognition of degree titles don't change from one year to the next - Newcastle's BMed has been around for decades.

With the risk of sounding like a pedant: During your training, you are not "working as a psychiatrist" (even under supervision) - you're working as a psychiatry registrar. Until you hold your fellowship, you are not professionally regarded (or paid) as a fully fledged specialist. Of this...

It's just a name. The qualifications are considered equal.

Sydney. @ Bacilli: Quite. :rolleyes:

You mean a super duper UAI doesn't mean you're automatically going to find those super duper hard intern years easy? :uhoh: :lol: In fairness, though, as alluded to earlier, the debate has been more about how kids will succeed (or not) in med school, not the pool of sharks that await them after...

You're correct - the grad schools certainly aren't much of a muchness in so far as entry requirements go. A thumbnail sketch: Paging Dr - 2008 Entry Offer Criteria

The answers to all those questions can be found here: Paging Dr - Home and here: http://pagingdr.proboards.com/index.cgi? Please read around before posting any additional questions you might have (newbies can be flamed for starting new threads on things that have been answered before ;)).

Sometimes, but not always. As I keep saying, it's a subjective measure. A UAI can be inflated by circumstance: a kid in a high ranking school, who gets extra tuition, who doesn't do much apart from eat, sleep and dream about school (be it from parental encouragement or an individual desire to do...

I might qualify my comments by saying that I am a doctor, so you needn't tell me what it's like to be a medical student. You appear to be labouring under the misperception that medicine is a course (and career) that needs a super-high intellect. It doesn't. I'm of the opinion that most...

No, you can't. I can take a bright kid and hot house them, and turn them into a high achieving, fine candidate for a medical degree. Hot housing doesn't = a good work ethic, or aptitude for medicine, nor does it imply they're going into medicine for the right reasons, or even a comprehension of...

I disagree. Medicine isn't rocket science. You don't need to be uber intelligent to cope with "the level of work". Bright, yes. Freakishly bright? No.

The "med part of the combined usyd program" is the graduate entry medical program (ie the only degree Sydney offers for medicine). Some people find maintaining a credit average difficult. Some do not. My advice is to not pay much attention to those who claim it would be easy or difficult if...