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  1. GrilledCheese

    America

    I never understood graphs like this. Who cares about starting salary? Salary 10, 15, 20 years in seems a lot more relevant.
  2. GrilledCheese

    med

    Not sure. I did GAMSAT.
  3. GrilledCheese

    med

    In saying that life for me is pretty damn good now I’m on the other side of training. Well remunerated, I work 4 days a week, I get very generous annual leave. I have great colleagues. The work is stimulating. Very much a case of delayed gratification.
  4. GrilledCheese

    med

    Yep, the amount of sacrifice after med school when you do further specialty training as a registrar is very dependent on the specific specialty. Anything surgical in particular is brutal but physician training, critical care, radiology etc are all hard as well.
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    med

    The work load is high for med school but you can definately still have a good social life and hobbies. On the other hand I found that I had less free time as a junior doctor compared to being a med student and then after that doing specialty training/specialty exams was by far the most stressful...
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    Chances of getting a 99+ atar

    Nah. Med school is a blast. Work hard play hard. Agree to disagree. I did engineering then med. Even took a year off to deploy overseas with the army reserve in the middle. I dont regret any of it and loved my uni days. I had some catching up to do in terms of money but I’ve definately made up...
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    Backup for medicine

    Most of the time it is better than med sci.
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    do i need chem for med

    Just re-iterating, having gone through Med, from a practical point of view, if you haven’t done chem you will be able to get up to speed during the course. Med is not as chem heavy as some posters on here have made out.
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    do i need chem for med

    I did chemistry for the HSC. My undergrad was engineering but I also did do a couple of chemistry electives in the lead up to GAMSAT. It probably helped a bit for GAMSAT but I don’t think it helped that much for med itself.
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    do i need chem for med

    I hated chemistry. I got through Med without a problem and love my job. Chemistry really isn’t a huge part of medicine.
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    Proportion of medical students entering via undergrad vs postgrad routes?

    Looks like approx 40% undergrad. https://medicaldeans.org.au/data/?md_year=2021&data_type=Enrolments&country=AU&students=Domestic&preview=
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    Do you think it is fair that people from here who get crappy marks can go overseas to other countries with lower marks and money to study med and

    I studied and trained in NSW. Med school grades had no relevency at any point for me. I can’t comment on if they play into getting a preferred hospital for internship in other states (it’s a lottery system in NSW). They certainly dont mean anything beyond that.
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    Do you think it is fair that people from here who get crappy marks can go overseas to other countries with lower marks and money to study med and

    I found getting in to med harder than the degree itself. I found the work as a junior doctor much more difficult than the degree. My specialist exams were by far the hardest thing I have done. As a specialist now, life is much better.
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    Do doctors study mathematical formulae in medical school?

    Most of the maths in medicine is statistics in order to either understand or perform research. Very little maths in the clinical side of medicine.
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    Best undergraduate degree for postgrad med?

    Something you enjoy, something that you can get good marks in and somthing that has job prospects if things fall through. What exactly that translates to for you is not something we can say. Personally I did engineering.
  16. GrilledCheese

    Q&A Thread - studying medicine and being a doctor

    With regard to overtime also keep in mind some rotations run on a 7 on 7 off roster as well. For instance ICU, paeds and O+G where I trained ran: 7 days on (12 hours) -> 7 off -> 7 nights -> 7 off repeat. ED was 4 on 4 off, switching between days, evenings and nights.
  17. GrilledCheese

    UQ medicine (graduate)

    Oh yes, MSO definately still had good info but I found pagingdr is more heavily focused on post grad. I found it a more comprehensive resource when I was applying for post grad Med.
  18. GrilledCheese

    UQ medicine (graduate)

    The pagingdr forum would be the other go to resource, it is more geared towards post grad Med compared to MSO.
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    drop out rate in first year

    My first year of engineering we lost at least a third or the cohort. When I did post grad med no one failed first year.
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