A question about the graduate entry medicine program

[AbominableMowman]

So I know that 50 out of the 75 places for graduate entry at Monash are reserved for biomedical science students, but if you do a double degree (e.g. Biomedical Science/Commerce), do they look at your GPA for the entire course or just for the biomedical science component when considering you for an interview?

[EspoirTron]

I'm studying Biomedicine and Science at Monash, and from what I hear, it's just Biomed. However, if you want to go elsewhere they consider the overall WAM

[allstar]

i'm sorry but i also have a question about the graduate medicine program:

the course structure is first year at the gippsland campus and the remaining three years is generally clinical work? how often would you return back to the campus? and can you choose to have clinical placements at the metropolitan areas rather than rural?

thank you

[thushan]

The remaining three clinical years can be either metro or rural. Year B, C and D (2-4) is the EXACT SAME program as the undergraduate Year 3, 4 and 5 (which is why at Monash we call it Year 3B, 4C and 5D).

You can spend your remaining 3 clinical years in the Monash metro hospitals where the undergraduates are.

[Russ]

You can spend your remaining 3 clinical years in the Monash metro hospitals where the undergraduates are.

You get free choice? That seems...not possible?

[thushan]

The Gippsland students can either go Metro or Rural. Beyond that, there's no choice.

[LiquidPaperz]

I plan on doing commerce/engineering at monash, if i was to get into the graduate program for medicine what do i need to do? is their some sort of GAMSAT or is it based on a high GPA and they take the students with the gpa that pass and offer all them a interview etc?

[allstar]

thank you thusan!

So i can choose to go metro? like not go rural? i thought they were gonna make me go rural! Cause i wanna do this course, but if Gippsland is a little far... so if i'm going to be spending most of the time in the metro area rather than rural... (i would just be spending one year there at Gippsland right?)
is there like a list of hospitals i can choose to do my clinical work?

just out of curiosity.. are you doing the graduate degree? how are you finding it? fun?

[thushan]

LiquidPaperz - What year will you graduate?

allstar - You can choose metro. If you do, you'll be spending only 1 year in Gippsland. However, you don't get a choice as to which metro hospital you get. The hospitals that Monash works with are (in metro):
- Alfred
- Cabrini
- Epworth
- Sandringham
- Frankston
- Box Hill, Maroondah and Angliss
- Monash Medical Centre
- Dandenong
- Casey

[LiquidPaperz]

in 2015 ill be in year 12, 2016 ill be in uni.

so 2015 graduate

[AbominableMowman]

in 2015 ill be in year 12, 2016 ill be in uni.

so 2015 graduate

From what I know, From 2017 onwards you can't get into the Monash graduate medicine program because it's reserved for people doing Biomedical Science (50 spots) and Pharmacy, Physiotherapy or Science.
Also for most other universities you will need to do the GAMSAT, they'll look at your GPA and you need to do an interview, but they have prerequisite subjects that you'll need to do in Uni which is usually Anatomy/Physiology and Biochemistry.

[allstar]

thank you!

I also have another question:
for those who are currently doing the graduate course in gippsland, how is life their? I guessing that the uni offers accomadation? is there like supermarkets? I always thought of gippsland as almost like a country town?

and apparently the bachelor of biomedical science has electives? is that like the equivalent to the breadth in melb uni?

[excal]

The Gippsland students can either go Metro or Rural. Beyond that, there's no choice.

Not strictly true but yes in 99.9% of cases.

Excuse the next few double posts. Quoting different posts in Tapatalk is a bitch.

[excal]

in 2015 ill be in year 12, 2016 ill be in uni.

so 2015 graduate

After 2017, it will be largely limited to Monash Biomed graduates. I would suggest you apply for undergraduate medicine if that is where you want to go rather than faff about with another undergraduate degree...

[excal]

thank you thusan!

So i can choose to go metro? like not go rural? i thought they were gonna make me go rural! Cause i wanna do this course, but if Gippsland is a little far... so if i'm going to be spending most of the time in the metro area rather than rural... (i would just be spending one year there at Gippsland right?)
is there like a list of hospitals i can choose to do my clinical work?

just out of curiosity.. are you doing the graduate degree? how are you finding it? fun?

Thushan is an undergraduate student. I am, however, a graduate student.

Others have already addressed your other points but to reiterate - you *preference* metro or Rural. You generally get what you preference. As for specific hospitals, in Metro a random number generator decides your fate where Rural get to preference hospitals.

Year A is an incredibly intense year. Melbourne isn't far, but commuting takes time. No-one does it on a daily basis, save for one or two.