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UMAT SCORE 300, UAI 100/ ENTER 99.95-which uni wuld u choose (2 Viewers)

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hahha 1 yr in medicine is very small.. lots of ppl will fail and stuff.. its very stressful..

depends wat u want to do in life..
if ure sure its medicine do a 5 or 6 yr course.. there is alot of contraversy on the topic.. basically they may not even take u at all... given the interviews..
 

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so being a bit of an intellectual, expert styled in this topic, were wuld u do med if u had the chance to do it anywere in ausstralia?
 

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yeh, but how is dat meant to help u, wen it comes to the future, like jobs and that.
Like wat diff wuld it make if u didnt do a BMedSc for 1 yr.
Possible use for an honours year:

According to a surgical registrar I spoke to recently, in order to get a decent position at a big teaching hospital as a specialist physician (as aposed to a surgeon) you will often need to have a PhD. Given the likelihood of research cropping up during your medical career, and the presence of competetive requirements like I just mentioned, it could be very handy to have some lab/research skills tucked under your belt. Also, an honours year can be used as a smoother pathway into a PhD.
 

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ajx said:
so being a bit of an intellectual, expert styled in this topic, were wuld u do med if u had the chance to do it anywere in ausstralia?
Any university which a) is willing to accept me and b) offers an arts/medicine option ---> UNSW wins by proximity.
 

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wats so grt about the combined arts/med degree in opportunities.
so that yr in melb research culd help u out wen specialising(if u wanna)?
 

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ajx said:
so being a bit of an intellectual, expert styled in this topic, were wuld u do med if u had the chance to do it anywere in ausstralia?
hahah I took the offer i got :)

i suspect im self-styled.. but I know that different ppl are suited for different courses.. and the diversity is great..

every school will have about 10-20% of them having 99.9+ ppl in it.. its crazy

i think u need to think wat u want to sacrifice and what u want..
 

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ur pretty helpful m8.
Where are u doin med now
if u had all offers, were wuld u hav cjhosen, say if all unis were close to u(hypothetical but just imagine it)
 

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kido_1 said:
wats so grt about the combined arts/med degree in opportunities.
so that yr in melb research culd help u out wen specialising(if u wanna)?
The primary reason why I want the arts/med option is because I enjoy the humanities. They offer a break from the typical cramming of medicine and allow me to indulge in more analytical thinking. At the moment I am tossing up between philosophy and development studies. In terms of potential opportunities: If I go with philosophy I will end up doing a lot of ethics (perhaps with an honours project oriented that way) which, in the future, could lead to doing some work in the field of medical ethics... perhaps getting involved with a hospital ethics comittee? Development studies would be very relevant if I end up doing some work with aid organisations which aim to better the situation of the developing world. At the moment I'm trying to determine the possibility of doing a cross-disciplinary honours year looking at developing world health (alas, the degree structure forces us to start planning early...).
 

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kido_1 said:
ur pretty helpful m8.
Where are u doin med now
if u had all offers, were wuld u hav cjhosen, say if all unis were close to u(hypothetical but just imagine it)
if ure asking me..

uni of adelaide..
i chose on support network and proximity.. back in the day.. there was no UWS med..
 

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KFunk said:
The primary reason why I want the arts/med option is because I enjoy the humanities. They offer a break from the typical cramming of medicine and allow me to indulge in more analytical thinking. At the moment I am tossing up between philosophy and development studies. In terms of potential opportunities: If I go with philosophy I will end up doing a lot of ethics (perhaps with an honours project oriented that way) which, in the future, could lead to doing some work in the field of medical ethics... perhaps getting involved with a hospital ethics comittee? Development studies would be very relevant if I end up doing some work with aid organisations which aim to better the situation of the developing world. At the moment I'm trying to determine the possibility of doing a cross-disciplinary honours year looking at developing world health (alas, the degree structure forces us to start planning early...).
just do a mph.
 

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haaha compared to BA + BA(hons).. lolz its like 2 yrs.. MPH is the same
 

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velox said:
just do a mph.
Yeah, that's a fair call, I've been looking into the MPH option. However, I believe I've worked out a way to do the MBBS + BA(hons) in 7 years, though I'm yet to confirm this.
 

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yeah flinders is very good

lol UniSA joke.. read the article
 

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hahahaha UniSA
KFunk -wowo double degrees, thats awsome but i mean like wat extra career options d u hav wen u finish ur degree, i know for med/law u can be a medical lawyer.
 

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I am primarily doing it for an education, not for a career. My personal values lead me to value the arts degree in itself... it saves me from being sucked into a degree which would otherwise just be a vocational one. To give you more of an answer - no, I don't think that the arts degree will open up more career options per se. Rather, I think it will act to steer me towards certain areas of medicine/health by piquing my interest.
 

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thats preety awesome, u must hav got a really good UAi and umat score.
 

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ajx said:
If u had a choice at all unis for med in australia which wuld u choose,
is it possible, with a perfect UMAT and a 100 UAI, to not get into medicine by completely bombing the interview? :p
 

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the unis wuld tell u it is possible, but realistically if der waz someone really like dat they wuld prbbly accept him automatically, i wonder....
 

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