Proportion of students in the Doctor of Medicine

[Pup]

It is true, that there are more Bachelor of Science students that make it in the Doctor of Medicine than Biomedicine students.
Biomedicine has around 400 in each yearly cohort, but only 100 or so make in the MD, when there are 330 spots in the MD?

[Starlight]

I think the order tends to go as follows:

1) Melbourne biomed

2) Monash biomed

3) Melbourne science

[totaled]

I heard a similar thing but it could be due to the fact that there are way more people doing science than boomed at Melbourne?

[Hancock]

More people from Biomed are in the MD because more students from there want to do the course. Even though more people are enrolled in BSc, a lot of them don't want to do medicine.

[thushan]

Either way, it's not a quota, it just happened to be like that.

[Russ]

The ratio of biomed;science in the MD is something stupid, like 9:1 or wahtever

[lebnon]

Would like to point out, ~330 places in MD, ~50% went to Melbourne students and 126 from memory were from Biomedicine.

I think about 300 people graduated from Biomedicine, 60% of those applied for medicine or dentistry after their study. So 180 applied for MD/DDS and 126 got into MD and many more would have got into other medical schools in Australia. If you work hard in a Biomed degree, you should get into med as far as I understand.

[thushan]

If you work hard in any science/biomed degree, you could get into med. Being in the degree itself doesn't get you a place in and of itself. The correlation is there because many of the people who do biomed want to do grad entry med and will therefore work very hard.

That said - where did you get the figures?

And the more important thing is out of the 160 CSP local unbonded places, how many were from Melb Biomed?

[Russ]

Those figures are pretty accurate. They've never released data on CSP places but I would expect that the ratio is the same, with the largest block again being biomedicine graduates

[jaydee]

how many students are offered interview for MD and what proportion miss out on a spot despite getting an interview? im just curious

[Hancock]

I'm not too sure, but a lot of people (I find anyway), have the mindset that you have to get into the MD at Melbourne. There are many graduate medicine courses (such as Deakin/Monash/ANU) so if you do miss out on Melbourne, you can still become a doctor.

[Russ]

I think they interview 125% of places, but they might have changed that this year. Check their website and it will say there