MBBS vs Bachelor Medicine (1 Viewer)

anfonnee

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Hey all, I've only just become aware that the Joint Medical Program at Newcasle/UNE only provides a Bachelor of Medicine, no Bachelor of Surgery. I was just wondering, what do you miss out on without the Bachelor of Surgery? I'm assuming obviously you can't be a surgeon, but can you still specialise? What do get extra with the Bachelor of Surgery? I'm hoping to go into a specialty but can I still get that with the just the Bachelor of Medicine?
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you get a BMed instead of a MBBS. There is no difference. Miss out on surgery LOL!
 

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BMed=MBBS, it's just a different name.

Good Ol Wikipedia: "Australia
MB BS are conferred by most Australian medical schools (undergraduate and graduate-entry).

The graduate-entry Flinders medical school confers BM BS.

The University of Newcastle offers the five-year undergraduate degree BMed. Although no degree in surgery is formally awarded by Newcastle, this degree is equivalent to the MB BS, and students may go on to a career in surgery the same as any other graduates in medicine and surgery."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Medicine_and_Surgery#Australia
 
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you miss out on surgery, so surgery is out as a possible future career choice.






















not really...it's the same thing.
 

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Once upon a time medicine and surgery were completely different pathways, and MBBS put them together as one degree.

Newcastle considers surgery a speciality of of medicine and not separate, hence they only have a bachelor of med, while all the other unis are sticking with traditional naming of their degrees.

This is just Newcastle wanting to be individual, has absolutely no impact on your future career.
 

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