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Med school life discussion thread
MelonBar:
Yewww guise. thoughts on eastern health/bokky hospital for placement? Really tempting to return to melbs but apparently the more rural/regional placements (geelong, warnambool, etc.) are pretty solid too. What are the pros & cons of metro vs rural for year 3 and 4 clinical years ?
Thanks!
Splash-Tackle-Flail:
--- Quote from: MelonBar on February 28, 2016, 11:53:35 am --- Really tempting to return to melbs but apparently the more rural/regional placements (geelong, warnambool, etc.) are pretty solid too. What are the pros & cons of metro vs rural for year 3 and 4 clinical years ?
Thanks!
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Pros of clinical in Warrnambool:
-my mum is a GP there, and does tutes for Deakin medical students :D
pi:
--- Quote from: MelonBar on February 28, 2016, 11:53:35 am ---Yewww guise. thoughts on eastern health/bokky hospital for placement? Really tempting to return to melbs but apparently the more rural/regional placements (geelong, warnambool, etc.) are pretty solid too. What are the pros & cons of metro vs rural for year 3 and 4 clinical years ?
Thanks!
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Eastern Health has it's pros and cons, and I feel quite sorry for you Deakin folks because I think your third year is an absolute nightmare (and I think it's very poorly organised by your Faculty too). I was at Eastern and had tutes and was friends with a few of the Deakin kids, lovely people.
Pros:
- Lots of opportunity to study, you have heaps of free time
- Lots of opportunity to see patients and do procedures (basically you can do whatever you want if you have supervision)
- Staff are super friendly, never had any issues with doctors not wanting to teach me stuff
- Box Hill is new (I was there DURING the transition from new to old Box Hill!) and is a very nice place to work at
- Cheap Asian food everywhere
Cons:
- Barely any formal teaching in terms of lectures and tutes in comparison to other Monash clinical schools
- I didn't feel well-supported by the clinical school admin in comparison to my friends elsewhere
- You don't get many rotations, basically three a semester: med, surg, ortho (thanks to your Deakin curriculum grrr....), so not much exposure to the various specialties
- Maroondah is not new and looks terrible
- Cheap Asian food carries a real risk of food poisoning
Feel free to ask me more about Eastern, I was there for all of third year and for o+g last year too :)
Russ:
--- Quote from: Orson on February 27, 2016, 11:58:33 am ---If I ever get there...that is something I look forward to for some reason. I can't quite put a finger on it, but something about having to sleep on a hospital couch, instead of going home seems awesome. It's something about being so involved in it, that you have to sacrifice something you've taken for granted your whole life.
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Aggressively try to reign this in, it's not a sustainable approach to life and medicine is hardly worth being that involved in. Being rosy about this sort of commitment isn't healthy :(
Doing a rural placement can make it a bit harder to get references and things for your intern application, depending on the staff and location and so forth but there's no reason to avoid it (assuming, of course that you're happy to relocate for a year).
Orson:
--- Quote from: Russ on February 28, 2016, 12:27:35 pm ---Aggressively try to reign this in, it's not a sustainable approach to life and medicine is hardly worth being that involved in. Being rosy about this sort of commitment isn't healthy :(
Doing a rural placement can make it a bit harder to get references and things for your intern application, depending on the staff and location and so forth but there's no reason to avoid it (assuming, of course that you're happy to relocate for a year).
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Wait...so employers don't like students who had rural placements? So even if someone gets into Deakin BMBS, they aren't guaranteed an internship like FFP kids? I thought all CSP students were pretty much guaranteed an internship. I'm prepared to move to Geelong if its necessary.
:o :'(
--- Quote from: MelonBar on February 28, 2016, 11:53:35 am ---Yewww guise. thoughts on eastern health/bokky hospital for placement? Really tempting to return to melbs but apparently the more rural/regional placements (geelong, warnambool, etc.) are pretty solid too. What are the pros & cons of metro vs rural for year 3 and 4 clinical years ?
Thanks!
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Can you choose your placement? Is it based on academic merit, or completely random? What would have a better chance of getting you an internship?
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