How do you get a guaranteed place in Melbourne uni med?

[Peanuts11]

You'll need a PhD to get involved. When you do it is up to you, but unless you're disenchanted with medicine after graduating, I'd imagine after specializing

Interesting, so ultimately after Biomedicine, you either pick the research route or the clinical route.

By the time you specialise and then do your PhD, I think it's all a bit too late and your past your prime as a researcher.

I could be totally wrong though, guess we'll see.

[Russ]

If you want to do the MD, yes (assuming you don't count the research component of the MD). You can do MBBS/PhD at another university if you want (there are 2 that offer it from memory).

And you're hardly past your prime as a researcher in, say, your forties. That's probably the best time to move into research, especially if you want more family time and a stable job.

[Peanuts11]

If you want to do the MD, yes (assuming you don't count the research component of the MD). You can do MBBS/PhD at another university if you want (there are 2 that offer it from memory).

And you're hardly past your prime as a researcher in, say, your forties. That's probably the best time to move into research, especially if you want more family time and a stable job.

Intercalated PhD at UQ and ANU.

Hmm, 9 years of uni before getting a job, I'm not sure my parents would support me until I'm 27 financially.

Oh well

Thanx for your help. I'd really like to do a mix of clinical medicine as well as research in my career.

P.S: Why 'MachoMan', after seeing you at uni, the name is kind of the last thing I'd expect of you?

[Russ]

Nina discovered she could change people's usernames/DPs/sigs in the admin panel

[Peanuts11]

It's also worth noting something here.

I've met about 12 chancellor's scholars who plan on doing med.

3 from Camberwell Grammar, 4ish from Melbourne Grammar and three from MHS or Macrob, 1 from Scotch and 1 from Xavier.

I think you see the trend here ^.

What I find pretty annoying is that one of the kids actually had lower scores then myself in Methods, Physics and Spesh, whilst we drew in chemistry. He, however got 37 raw in latin and 50 in English (at a school that got like 7 50s or something) and he's a chancellor's scholar whilst I'm not. It's all a bit annoying to me.

End rant.

Interesting: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206681/Why-doctors-clever-used-be.html

Also, what is your view on this Russ ^

[thushan]

If you want to do the MD, yes (assuming you don't count the research component of the MD). You can do MBBS/PhD at another university if you want (there are 2 that offer it from memory).

And you're hardly past your prime as a researcher in, say, your forties. That's probably the best time to move into research, especially if you want more family time and a stable job.

Intercalated PhD at UQ and ANU.

Hmm, 9 years of uni before getting a job, I'm not sure my parents would support me until I'm 27 financially.

Oh well

Thanx for your help. I'd really like to do a mix of clinical medicine as well as research in my career.

P.S: Why 'MachoMan', after seeing you at uni, the name is kind of the last thing I'd expect of you?

Hey Peanuts - UniMelb also has a DMedSci (which is the new name for the OLD melbourne MD - which is a research degree) which I think you can use ur research paper from the MD for - I'm not 100% sure on specifics, but I think it is an extra 2 years.

[ninwa]

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