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Which degree is best for postgrad medicine?
bigbrownsurfer:
I'm seriously trying to get into a degree that helps later in postgrad medicine. I wanted to do an health science degree or a science degree majoring in immunity and stuff but i've been hearing other people's opinion that biomed would be more of an advantage. I want to get into medicine in monash but im still keeping my options open to other med schools that are willing to just accept me So yeah which degree is beneficial in the pursuit of medicine.
^currently doing year 12 btw
Hope someone actually sees this
*notice me senpais
Calebark:
Hey,
If you're keen for Monash's med program, the best option would be to study Biomedical Science. This isn't necessarily because it'll prepare you more (I'm not well-versed in this), but because of Monash's new grad-entry program. In short, Monash now only accept Monash students for their grad-entry med program. This is based on WAM and interview, as GAMSAT is no longer used. There are 75 places available, 50 of which are reserved for Biomedical Science students, and 25 of which are for anyone from Biomedical Science, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, and Science.
You can read more about it here.
I also see this is your first post, so allow me to be the first person to welcome you to ATAR Notes :)
auds:
Just going to chime in and say for biomed degrees, you will still cover immunology/microbiology. I'm not sure for other unis, but speaking as an Immunology major doing Biomedicine @ Melb U, you get the option of picking different majors :) So you can still do immunology in Biomedicine. There are other factors though that you would want to consider re science vs Biomedicine.
vox nihili:
--- Quote from: auds on July 09, 2017, 11:54:47 pm ---Just going to chime in and say for biomed degrees, you will still cover immunology/microbiology. I'm not sure for other unis, but speaking as an Immunology major doing Biomedicine @ Melb U, you get the option of picking different majors :) So you can still do immunology in Biomedicine. There are other factors though that you would want to consider re science vs Biomedicine.
--- End quote ---
At both Melbourne and Monash you do more than enough immunology to get you through med, even without the major.
There are obviously advantages to doing biomed at Monash, because of the way they've set things up. Likewise, similar advantages exist for science, pharmacy there. Otherwise, I'm not sure it matters enormously. There are Arts students doing Med at Melbourne, and although they initially struggled with the science, they bring to the degree a lot of extremely relevant skills that people with a science/biomed background don't have, and all of us are better for getting to study with them.
bigbrownsurfer:
--- Quote from: Calebantz on July 09, 2017, 06:57:58 pm ---Hey,
If you're keen for Monash's med program, the best option would be to study Biomedical Science. This isn't necessarily because it'll prepare you more (I'm not well-versed in this), but because of Monash's new grad-entry program. In short, Monash now only accept Monash students for their grad-entry med program. This is based on WAM and interview, as GAMSAT is no longer used. There are 75 places available, 50 of which are reserved for Biomedical Science students, and 25 of which are for anyone from Biomedical Science, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, and Science.
You can read more about it here.
I also see this is your first post, so allow me to be the first person to welcome you to ATAR Notes :)
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the warm welcome and reply!
--- Quote from: auds on July 09, 2017, 11:54:47 pm ---Just going to chime in and say for biomed degrees, you will still cover immunology/microbiology. I'm not sure for other unis, but speaking as an Immunology major doing Biomedicine @ Melb U, you get the option of picking different majors :) So you can still do immunology in Biomedicine. There are other factors though that you would want to consider re science vs Biomedicine.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for replying much appreciated!
--- Quote from: vox nihili on July 10, 2017, 09:56:30 am ---At both Melbourne and Monash you do more than enough immunology to get you through med, even without the major.
There are obviously advantages to doing biomed at Monash, because of the way they've set things up. Likewise, similar advantages exist for science, pharmacy there. Otherwise, I'm not sure it matters enormously. There are Arts students doing Med at Melbourne, and although they initially struggled with the science, they bring to the degree a lot of extremely relevant skills that people with a science/biomed background don't have, and all of us are better for getting to study with them.
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the Info much appreciated!
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