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nacho:
I thought of this when I read the title

Cypress Hill - Rock Superstar

So you wanna be a rock superstar and live large?
A big house, five cars, you're in charge
Comin' up in the world, don't trust nobody
Got to look over your shoulder constantly

pi:
Another small section that there are a few problems about:

Preferences in VTAC - Bonded vs. Unbonded: the common myth
There is only a disadvantage if you put a Bonded place above an Unbonded place in you VTAC preferences, only a disadvantage. There is a common urban myth (mainly brought about by ill-informed parents) that because students are less keen about Bonded places, by having it first will give the student an advantage in getting one and hence a place in medical school. This is not true at all. As Bonded places are only given to the bottom 25% of successful applicants, there are two main successful scenarios if you have Bonded ahead of Unbonded:
1) You fall in the bottom 25% and get Bonded, this would have happened anyway if it was your second preference
2) You fall into the top 75% and get Bonded, when if Unbonded was above, you would have got that place
So in essence, NEVER put Bonded spots above Unbonded spots, as there is only a disadvantage to yourself if you do.





Additions to this:

--- Quote from: Baby Spice (.|.) on July 06, 2012, 06:11:53 pm ---I heard that not all medical school places are the same..

Correct. There are different types of places, depending on what you apply for and how good your marks are. Broadly speaking:

Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP): The government pays a large amount of your fees, leaving you the rest to pay yourself (roughly 10k a year). They also offer you the ability to take on a debt for that 10k and pay them back through the tax system once you're earning actual money.

Full Fee Place (FFP): If you're an international student / don't have ANZ citizenship then you can't get a CSP and have to take one of these. It's expensive (roughly 60k a year) so work out where that money's coming from before you start.

Bonded Medical Place (BMP): Turns out doctors like money and city comforts and don't want to work rurally, leading to a whole lot of rural health problems. To address this, the government has introduced a scheme where 25% of medical school places are "bonded". Before you start you sign a contract and you'll have to work rurally for as many years as you spend at medical school.

Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship (MRBS): Same as a BMP except the government pays YOU to study medicine (yay!) to the tune of $25k a year. Your obligation may be slightly longer, since it's 6 years absolute, rather than "however long your course is".

If you want more information on the BMP or MRBS, I strongly (STRONGLY) recommend you google the government website and read the contract and your obligations etc. You would have to be an idiot to sign one without having a proper read of it/think about it. They're legal documents that will dramatically affect your future!

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Bonded Medical Place (BMP): **worth noting in the para that it is exactly the same as CSP except the bond

Extended Rural Cohort (ERC): A small stream of students whereby the clinical years are undertaken in rural/regional areas. All students here are CSP, except these students accept their place knowing that their clinical years will definitely be in a rural/regional setting. Preference is given to domestic rural applicants.

Russ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SuZvMy8PuNY

AMSA 2013. Medicine isn't all work (yes it is) we get to have fun as well

Stick:
Obviously one major barrier for potential and current medicine students is being exposed to a plethora of very confronting circumstances (by this I am referring to the 'blood and guts' :P). On a more personal level, I've only started considering medicine as a viable career option as it has the academic pursuits I crave, has a lot of science and problem-solving aspects and is a job that is people-oriented and allows me to help others. But I guess I've always had uncertainty about if and how I'd deal with seeing these sorts of things throughout medical training and whether or not it is a career I should even be considering if I think I can't deal with those aspects of the job. Perhaps you could enlighten us on this side of medicine? :)

Jenny_2108:
Btw, I have another question: Undergraduate and post-grad medicine, which one is better?

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