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Does the University matter when it comes to Med School?

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Shenz0r:
St. Vincent's have guaranteed interviews for their own students for quite some time. In recent years, the word of mouth has been that they are taking less and less of their own.

Across all hospitals, there is a mixture of Melbourne/Monash/Deakin graduates. As long as you've done well in medical school and made a good application, you'll have a chance of getting one of your higher preferences.

The only thing that I would mention is that your Z-score (essentially the ATAR of your medical school grades) is based on your own cohort's strength, not the entire state. If you have a strong cohort you are going to find it more difficult to get a higher score.

ezferns:
Thanks very much for your replies!!
Gotta say it’s pretty cool to recognise some of you guys from the bio page ;)

fluff:
I know this topic is kind of dead, but I just wanted to let people know that I've heard (third-hand from a friend who's family friends with some head at Royal Melbourne) that royal melbourne hospital really favour melb uni students for (i think) internships.

My school's recently had a surge of people not wanting to do undergrad med at Monash, but instead choosing to do biomed then post grad med at Melbourne, and this is apparently the reason why (something which I thought was a little weird, but if you really want to do an internship at Royal Melbourne, I guess this is something to think about).

vox nihili:

--- Quote from: fluff on December 13, 2018, 07:51:23 pm ---I know this topic is kind of dead, but I just wanted to let people know that I've heard (third-hand from a friend who's family friends with some head at Royal Melbourne) that royal melbourne hospital really favour melb uni students for (i think) internships.

My school's recently had a surge of people not wanting to do undergrad med at Monash, but instead choosing to do biomed then post grad med at Melbourne, and this is apparently the reason why (something which I thought was a little weird, but if you really want to do an internship at Royal Melbourne, I guess this is something to think about).

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Definitely a little weird. There are only about 60 interns at Royal Melbourne each year across the state, and it really can't be said that RMH necessarily offers a programme so superior that it would warrant particularly risking a place in med school full stop. Your classmates, in my view, are making a bad decision based on pretty silly information. Like a lot of hospitals affiliated with UniMelb, RMH supposedly prefers to take students whohave been students there...whether or not you become a student at RMH is entirely random.

simonhu81292:

--- Quote from: vox nihili on December 13, 2018, 09:03:35 pm ---Definitely a little weird. There are only about 60 interns at Royal Melbourne each year across the state, and it really can't be said that RMH necessarily offers a programme so superior that it would warrant particularly risking a place in med school full stop. Your classmates, in my view, are making a bad decision based on pretty silly information. Like a lot of hospitals affiliated with UniMelb, RMH supposedly prefers to take students whohave been students there...whether or not you become a student at RMH is entirely random.

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I agree with this.
Most Monash MBBS students also go to Alfred and Austin.
The internship system (PMCV matching) is quite weird and strange. But is not that Monash students don't go to RMH but they could have chosen to go to Alfred over RMH.

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