Biomedicine too risky ?

[_henwee]

You can apply to PG Dentistry from any undergraduate degree, so yes. I never really had an interest in dent but it uses the GAMSAT, so you'd need to do that + GPA + interview.

I know there are less places than med but I'm not sure that that translates into a harder entry.

No you don't need an interview for DDS.

If you're considering it, here's an interesting picture from earlier in the year. It's a question posed to the 2nd year cohort about what they planned to do after finishing their degree and although not everyone responded, it's still (relatively) accurate.

Sorry if this is off topic, but after completeing biomed can you undertake PG Dentistry??
If so what kind of results would you need? And in terms of difficulty, would it be harder to get into PG dentistry or PG med?

Yes you can under PG Dentistry after biomed.
The prerequisites are the same for dentistry and medicine.

Quota for DDS: 90
Quota for MD: 330

So I say you need higher results for Dentistry than for Med.
But probably more people go for med so it somewhat balances out a bit.

DDS is obviously more competitive. 50 places will be domestic and 40 will be international. At least 50% of the domestic are CSP, that's 25 places and 5 of this will be reserved for Grad Access (like SEAS). Then there's the other 25 (or less depending on govt funding) that are domestic full-fee

Yeah - but if we were to look at the chart Russ posted about 7 posts ago.
The number of applicants is significantly less for the DDS - like 92% less.

So the number of potential applicants is quite proportional to its quotas.
Which is why I said "it somewhat balances out a bit"

[Edmund]

You can apply to PG Dentistry from any undergraduate degree, so yes. I never really had an interest in dent but it uses the GAMSAT, so you'd need to do that + GPA + interview.

I know there are less places than med but I'm not sure that that translates into a harder entry.

No you don't need an interview for DDS.

If you're considering it, here's an interesting picture from earlier in the year. It's a question posed to the 2nd year cohort about what they planned to do after finishing their degree and although not everyone responded, it's still (relatively) accurate.

Sorry if this is off topic, but after completeing biomed can you undertake PG Dentistry??
If so what kind of results would you need? And in terms of difficulty, would it be harder to get into PG dentistry or PG med?

Yes you can under PG Dentistry after biomed.
The prerequisites are the same for dentistry and medicine.

Quota for DDS: 90
Quota for MD: 330

So I say you need higher results for Dentistry than for Med.
But probably more people go for med so it somewhat balances out a bit.

DDS is obviously more competitive. 50 places will be domestic and 40 will be international. At least 50% of the domestic are CSP, that's 25 places and 5 of this will be reserved for Grad Access (like SEAS). Then there's the other 25 (or less depending on govt funding) that are domestic full-fee

Yeah - but if we were to look at the chart Russ posted about 7 posts ago.
The number of applicants is significantly less for the DDS - like 92% less.

So the number of potential applicants is quite proportional to its quotas.
Which is why I said "it somewhat balances out a bit"

That was just a casual PRS clicker question. I doubt it would be accurate since not all participates or are aware that multiple options are possible. But still gives a rough idea that Medicine is their ultimate goal. Thanks for posting, heaps of biomed kids were talking about that slide hehehe

[_henwee]

So which option are you choosing. ^^"

[Russ]

Oh I think it's pretty accurate, but there are plenty of other applicants to the DDS outside of the biomedicine course

And yeah, it was a bit of a laugh. Only about 75% of people responded though, so the rest could all want to do something other than PG med

[_henwee]

Point taken.

I know I shouldn't but I merely assumed the ratio stayed roughly the same amongst all other courses too.