Questions

[Romaboy]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering, is there a specific medicine or course, or do you study Biomedicine?
& also, are you able to do Medicine with a Bachelor of Science?

One last thing, what is a SEAS application, could someone explain please?

Thanks

[saheh]

Im not sure in regards to the medicine question

but i do know that SEAS is Special Entry Applic. Scheme or something along those lines
it means that if you are 'disadvantaged' in any, like, from an area deemed as disadvantaged or non-metro and other reasons like (i think!!) if you're financially disadvantaged
they read this application and take that into consideration...
its probably not 100% correct but that's what i know..

[Phy124]

Hey guys,

I was just wondering, is there a specific medicine or course, or do you study Biomedicine?
& also, are you able to do Medicine with a Bachelor of Science?

One last thing, what is a SEAS application, could someone explain please?

Thanks

You can do medicine & surgery (?) at Monash.

I believe you can get into medicine from a bachelor of science (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it is very challenging.

A SEAS (Special Entry Access Scheme) application is submitted by a student or on behalf of a student when they have been through challenging circumstances throughout year 12. This may include a disadvantaged financial background, the death of a family member and various other cases. The institution the student is trying to get into then looks at this application and decides whether this gives them merit for being in the course despite not fulfilling entry requirements (ATAR below clearly-in etc..) More information here

[Romaboy]

Thanks

[paulsterio]

There's two pathways into medicine. The first pathway is the undegraduate pathway, where you go directly from Year 12 into Medicine. The only uni which offers this in Victoria is Monash University. It's a 5 year course called the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) course. You'll also have to sit the UMAT and an interview.

The other pathway is called graduate entry and basically you only start on the Medicine aspect after you've finished another degree. You can either do a Bachelor of Biomedicine or a Bachelor of Science course in order to apply. You'll also have to sit the GAMSAT and an interview. There are three universities which offer graduate medicine. Monash Uni (Gippsland), University of Melbourne and Deakin.

[Romaboy]

Thanks

[nubs]

I believe you can get into medicine from a bachelor of science (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it is very challenging.

It's not very challenging - not any more than if you were to do biomedicine, you have the same chance as someone doing Biomed

Also, building on what Paul said, I believe University of Melbourne is the only uni in australia that requires prerequisite subjects for their graduate medicine course. This means that you would have to do Biomedicine, Science or an equivalent undergraduate course while choosing the necessary subjects IF you wanted to medicine at Melbourne. If you're happy with going to any other uni in the state, then it doesn't matter which undergraduate course you do, and which subjects you choose. So you could do Arts at La Trobe and still get into the medicine course at Deakin - or any other university apart from Melbourne uni.

But keep in mind, for graduate medicine, you need to do a test called the GAMSAT. It requires you to know Physics at a VCE level, and Biology and Chemistry at a first year uni level, among other things. So if you're doing something like Arts, it can make it quite difficult for you to do well on the GAMSAT because you'll have to self learn all the content. But there are people out there who do this, but yeah it's much easier if you do a Science related course and pick the appropriate subjects that will prepare you for the GAMSAT if you can fit them in

[pi]

I believe you can get into medicine from a bachelor of science (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but it is very challenging.

It's not very challenging - not any more than if you were to do biomedicine, you have the same chance as someone doing Biomed

+1

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but don't more Science students get into UoM MD than Biomed students?

[nubs]

After the ATAR scores were released, I went to the UoM expo, and one of the girls at the stands said that two people from the UoM Science course got into the MD, but according to some people on AN, that figure seems way too low

butt, even if it were true, it doesn't say anything about the difficulty of getting into the MD with a Science degree when compared to a Biomed degree. So don't be put off by it