Med entry question

[Ngage0]

ok so its not classified as post graduate?

[mark_alec]

No, it isn't.

[shinny]

Seems like there's some major terminology confusion going on in this thread. I'm pretty sure undergrad=Monash and equivalent, graduate=UoM MD etc, and post-graduate=specialisation. Look at the university websites - they're almost always referred to as graduate degrees; not post-grad. Many say post-grad (even me too admittedly) instead of graduate, but I was made aware of this error not long ago. But yeh, Ngage0 has never referred to it as a post-grad degree - he's simply been asking about 'training', as Russ has needlessly corrected him on. I think he knows what he's talking about, and despite the naivety of his overall views concerning overseas training, needlessly correcting technicalities has deviated this thread a bit I think.

But yes, overseas equals bad. I've had several registrars who have been fully qualified specialists overseas, yet have come here and have required to be fully re-trained quite tediously despite their clear competency. Not quite as bad if you decide to come back immediately after your undergrad training, but still, I have a suspicion that they'll throw you into rural places and such initially.

[Russ]

Postgraduate can be used to refer to masters level studies..my correction was more because he said med, which implied you'd need to do another degree here

[shinny]

Postgraduate can be used to refer to masters level studies..my correction was more because he said med, which implied you'd need to do another degree here

Ah right. Still clearly not what he meant though considering his mentions of RACGP and so on lol. Just felt like he was unnecessarily being cornered in this thread >_>