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This is my view after starting practice as a doctor. There is a significant number of GPs who are incompetent in certain areas. I work in the ED right now and I've seen quite a few referrals from GPs to the emergency department for trivial illnesses such as upper respiratory tract infection in...

I escaped my clinical placements early. I am still a doctor somehow.

You can do any degree and enter graduate medicine. She got trolled.

I have talked to UNSW staff so what I stated above was not speculating. I've trained over 80 students and I've read numerous articles on selection of medical candidates, all the evidence points at MMI as a more reliable way to select candidates. Having 2 people does not reduce bias enough to...

Anatomy teaching can be purely anatomical. However cadavers are not the same as real live specimens. I am all for dissection but limited resources limits the capabilities. Would be awesome if virtual reality headsets in the future can bypass limited resources but then you could argue it's still...

That being said I think UNSW's interview process is flawed. Lenient interviewers were too easy on some students whilst strict interviewers almost rejected some excellent candidates. There is no standardization in their interview process as they seem to always lack volunteers for the interview...

Passing medicine isn't hard. Doing well in medicine can be. I didn't study much in med school but I have never failed anything in med school I think that tells you how hard medicine is. If you want to do well that's another story as there are many talented people in medicine and it's not easy to...

I suck at anatomy and I'm a doctor. I think that speaks for itself. As for the anatomy covered in med school pales in comparison to what surgeons learn. You will be surprised at how little "medicine" some surgeons know as they ask for consults on minor medical issues in the minds of physicians...

There's no guarantee doing well in Medentry means you will do well in the UMAT. After all they pay students to make questions not the actual professionals hired to make the exams. As a rough estimate 80's should be 90's in the actual UMAT but it's hard to tell.

Schmeag made very important points about undersubscription and oversubscription. ED jobs after training are not that easy to come by as I have spoken to a few new ED consultants and most ED jobs are part time and not full time jobs when you graduate as a consultant. I have heard ophthalmology...

I think they had another website similar to this one before but this allows you to compare specialties. Looks slightly better and gives you trainee numbers too which weren't provided before. The trainee numbers should be divided by the number of years required for training to give you the intake...

I've experienced Westmead, Nepean and Blacktown so far. Blacktown is probably the best so far considering they are implementing new technology here. Regardless public systems are set up for failure, the attitude is all wrong and the people at the top aren't exactly the brightest of the brightest...

Calm down boys too much testosterone here. We can either escalate this to the MMA cage or settle it by seeing both sides. I can kind of understand where both of you are coming from but anyone talking about anything outside their field of expertise may indeed sound like an idiot. If you make...

It's a stable income source which you could invest into other things. Never knew the cost of living was so bad until I started paying my own bills. My golly you don't think money is important? Yeh if you don't want to enjoy life then that is fine. Money is slowly creeping up on the list of...

Job stability is still excellent if you go outer regional or rural. Also if you locom you will always have a job. In terms of life stability it may not be the case if you want to live in a metropolitan area. Regardless I still think medicine is better than most jobs out there if you are the lazy...

Definitely agree my friend. That is why I'm showing students it's not all glory or rewarding as many people assume it is. I have come to the stage where doing something you enjoy is more important but I think in 10 years time I might have a flip around. Oh how life changes.

Just wondering which hospital just out of curiosity. I think the general consensus now is that a PhD may bring prestige to the hospital and therefore, bringing in more funding and patients. I have not met any consultants from competitive specialties without a PhD nowadays. For less competitive...

Bonded doesn't affect your chance of obtaining specialty training positions. If you come back to NSW you'll be put into a hospital of shortage of workforce more likely than not so your residency year will count towards the fulfillment of the contract. I find it highly unlikely you will be able...

I was actually in the toilet a couple of days ago and was wondering if penis veins could be used. Guess it is :)

No nurses I know do cannulation in my hospital but if they do have that experience I do welcome them to teach. I definitely agree venepuncture and cannulation could be done by nurses (female catherisation can be done in my hospital). Physician assistants are another option and according to a...