anyone care to enlighten me on their experiences in terms of work life balance and free time? Anyone have had any time to travel overseas as such?
Does it get even harder to do so as you progress to internship,etc?
Thanks 
In terms of work life balance, it's achievable. You hear stories of med students slaving away in the libraries until 2am every night... but you only hear of those because those are extreme situations and you never hear the far more common story of the student who puts in a couple of hours a night and still gets through alright. There are people in med who balance work, study, social life, sport, etc. with ease. Personally, I don't work or tutor, and I only play sport socially sometimes, so I have a lot of potential free time and don't ever feel particularly stressed about my study load (exception was the infamous 'Week of Death' last year where we had 5 consecutive days on exams in a week... bad times!). Obviously, as you move up the chain through internship, residency, registrar, etc. you have less and less free time because you have more obligations and responsibilities, in addition to more study for the various exams that exist later down that line (during those exam times life may temporarily = work + study hahaha). edit: I'd like to add that it can take some time to strike that balance, you'll inevitably be feeling like you're drowning at times, but there will also be times where you're swimming at a Thorpe-level, eventually you'll find your jam and you'll be Hackett-ing through in the long-run (apologies to people who don't know anything about swimming athletes!)

You need to be prepared to make sacrifices to study medicine, but you don't need to sacrifice your life for it.
I personally haven't traveled overseas, but that's more because I couldn't be bothered and didn't really want to rather than not having the time. Holidays are the time to go overseas and it's very common for people to go on a South East Asia bender, or the old "Euro trip". Furthermore, during the year, you can [pay] to go to conferences that interest you overseas and get official conference leave to do that, although not many people do that just because the cost:benefit ratio isn't really in your favour

There are also opportunities to go on exchange, speaking for Monash there are semester-long or year-long exchanges with Monash Malaysia and there are also elective rotations in final year which can be done overseas. It's also not uncommon for people to take gap years to travel, most commonly after MBBS IV or MD3 from what I've been hearing!
Had first real pbl session, am youngest in group, avg age = 26 wat.
Haha plenty of oldies over in Deakin. Probably because they don't have pre-reqs. From my exposure to them at Eastern a couple of years ago, lovely bunch
