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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2008, 11:39:29 pm »
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According to figures released by the University of Melbourne, 338 offers were made to people for the Bachelor of Biomedicine new gen course. There is expected to be about 330 places in the new graduate medicine course to commence in 2011.

It is obvious from the above figures that not everyone doing biomedicine will get into the new Melbourne medicine degree.

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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2008, 11:55:29 pm »
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But the vast majority of Biomed students would get in, wouldn't they?

Unless I'm missing something obvious. 
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« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2008, 12:09:18 am »
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haha, well the fact is that graduates from interstate and everywhere else are also competing for those 330 places.

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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2008, 07:56:03 am »
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we would also be able to apply to latrobe and deakin and monash which also offer graduate med degrees.
besides more places at melb open up than before, with no intake of undergrad students
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« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2008, 09:14:21 am »
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I'm betting the process will likely favour UMelb students, it would make sense to promote applications to their new generation degrees

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« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2008, 12:37:03 pm »
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For the melb uni graduate med course, in the handbook it says that for a CSP place, you have to have gotten an ENTER at least 99. something plus get a high UMAT....

Does it only mean that people who got almost perfect EnTER scores are allowed into the melb uni graduate med course?

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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2008, 01:21:26 pm »
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of course not.
its just that the ppl who get 99.90 are guaranteed a place in their new med course..thats all...i dont think they have to sit any additional test...
like gamsat/interview/aptitude test.

besides anyone with such a high enter score surely would get into med in some australian uni.
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« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2008, 05:40:16 pm »
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Read all about it: my medical breakthrough
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After six years as a journalist with The Age, Christian Catalano finally gave in to his passion to become a doctor.

THE CLAUSTROPHOBIA set in the moment I saw that rickety single bed.

So much had happened in the 18 months since I had decided to go back to studying - the late nights cramming for that awful entrance exam, the fretting, the interview process, the financial concerns - that I had barely paused to think how daunting it might be to actually call myself a uni student all over again.

But now here I was alone in my tiny bedroom in the North units of Monash Gippsland (more H-Block Pentridge than Ivy League fraternity house) and the walls were closing in.

What the hell was I doing here, nearly 200 kilometres away from my partner, my mates, my sunny beachside apartment and the career I had dedicated the last nine years to? Who was I kidding trying to take on medicine with nothing more than an arts degree under my belt?

A few nights before I had stayed up late watching bad TV and stumbled across that '80s gem Back to School. Its highlight is a truly winning performance from googly-eyed comedian Rodney Dangerfield but all I could think was: is that who I am going to be? That crusty older dude, hopelessly out of place at the back of the lecture theatre?

But there was simply no backing out - not the day before classes began - and though the tightness in my neck refused to subside, some of that nervous energy was genuine excitement.

Doing medicine is exactly what I've always wanted to do. And though it might seem odd that it has taken me nearly a decade since high school and a six-year career as a journalist to get here, I am actually rapt to have come to it this way.

The strange thing is that I still enjoy the intensity and excitement of working in a crowded newsroom. I would still get a little bit of an ego buzz on those rare days when one of my stories made it on to the front page.

But there came a point, a few years back, when I realised I had no idea what I wanted to get out of journalism or whether I could stay passionate about it forever.

The idea of studying medicine had never really gone away; and when I started writing stories about the health system that desire came back into focus.

Though few of the doctors and nurses I spoke to had much time for a pesky reporter, what I did manage to glean was that most enjoyed a tremendous sense of fulfilment in what they did. The people and the things that I was writing about - the incredible surgeries, the breakthroughs in stem cell science - really sealed the decision for me.

I bought some basic science textbooks and started reading up at night and in my spare time at work. I needed to get myself up to the level of a first-year uni science student to have a chance of negotiating the GAMSAT, Australia's standard graduate med-school entry exam.

What a killer of a test! The idea must be that if you can get through the whole five and a half hours without your head exploding then you might be worthy of consideration.

Naturally I bombed out at the first attempt and had to wait another year to sit it again, getting some help from a truly awesome tutor in the meantime: basic organic chemistry in six months - and for the first time I enjoyed studying this stuff.

The extra year's wait also meant that I was able to apply to Monash University, which was starting a graduate medical school in Gippsland.

The prospect of moving away from the city didn't really appeal to me but I had a cousin who had just finished studying there and it seemed a much more progressive and interactive way of studying medicine than the old-school methods I'd heard about at other universities.

The chance to start learning from real patients and working in hospitals from the first month of the course was a huge drawcard.

Since accepting the offer from Monash, friends and former colleagues have asked how I would cope with the change: the move away from Melbourne and my girlfriend, and the loss of income while I study. All that stuff would sort itself out, I told them. I was finally doing exactly what I wanted to do and the rest just paled into insignificance.

Of course, it doesn't really work like that. To begin with, my decision would also have a huge impact on my girlfriend and our relationship. We had moved in together after buying a flat last year and we also worked together. Knowing that we were only going to see each other at weekends was tough.

Money was obviously also an issue for both of us. Although the newspaper has offered me one shift a week and I will not have to pay back the course fees until I begin work, I obviously could no longer keep up my half of the mortgage repayments.

That means my girlfriend will soon move back into her parents' house so that we can rent out the flat. It is a huge sacrifice for her having moved away from home only a year ago.


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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2008, 06:12:14 pm »
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Funnily enough, I was reading that today in class.
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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #24 on: March 03, 2008, 08:43:16 pm »
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Wow, thats dedication!
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Re: Medicine - Graduate pathway
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2008, 12:06:12 am »
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hey people can you do biomedicine at RMIT and transfer to medicine at Melbourne university.

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« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2008, 03:25:15 am »
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hey people can you do biomedicine at RMIT and transfer to medicine at Melbourne university.

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