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Grey:
So I disappointingly missed out on UoM biomedicine by 0.05 enter this year and got pharmacy / commerce at Monash Parkville instead. I don't really want to do it but I have no option, so the only way is to go medicine in a few years. Here are my questions:

1. Can I go UoM graduate medicine from pharmacy if my marks are awesome?

2. If so, what marks do I need to maintain to be considered?

3. Do I have to do a GAMSAT?

4. Will Monash restrict me to Monash or can I transfer to UoM and do medicine there instead of at Monash?

5. Is pharmacy good? I went to enrolment day and everyone seemed so happy as if their life-long dreams had come true, but I was only there cause I had to be, it was a different feeling...

Any suggestions?

vexx:
Err, biomedicine is only a bachelor's degree similar to a science degree, it does not mean you are going into medicine just by doing it... The only undergrad med is the MBBS course at monash otherwise its graduate med at monash or UoM.

1. I considered pharmacy as an undergraduate degree- looking into it and unless you find a way to do the prerequesite subjects during summer or overload during your semesters, you cannot do the graduate medicine at UoM, you need second year anatomy, biochemistry and physiology which are not in the course structure for pharmacy.

2. If you do find a way to get the prereqs, you would need a solid GPA of atleast 6.0+, more likely you would need somewhere in the 6.5, but the entry requirements are unknown and it depends on your GAMSAT results too

3. Yes

4. You can do graduate medicine wherever you like as long as you complete a bachelor's degree, you cannot transfer into udnergrad med.

5. it's your decision if you find pharmacy good, but yes its a rather respectable career with a good lifestyle depends if you like the job or not though.


If you are very keen on medicine, why did you not apply for undergrad med? Or why are you doing pharm/commerce, its much easier to get a higher GPA if you want graduate med if you do a basic science degree or biomed (if transfer into it)

Grey:
I did apply but I didn't get in. So I wanted to go biomedicine for entry into medicine. But seeing as my enter was only 97.85 and the clearly-in this year was 97.9, I didn't get into biomedicine and go pharmacy / commerce instead.

So I'm aiming for graduate medicine, so you're saying that I need to take extra subjects that relate to medicine to get in?

doboman:

--- Quote from: vexx on January 31, 2010, 05:48:29 pm ---4. You can do graduate medicine wherever you like as long as you complete a bachelor's degree, you cannot transfer into udnergrad med.

If you are very keen on medicine, why did you not apply for undergrad med? Or why are you doing pharm/commerce, its much easier to get a higher GPA if you want graduate med if you do a basic science degree or biomed (if transfer into it)

--- End quote ---

Firstly, you can transfer, after 1 year of pharm/comm, into undergraduate medicine. Although you're correct in saying that you can't transfer into Monash med or UoM Graduate med, there are other unis in the country who take non-standards (once you have started a uni course, you become a non-standard). Off the top of my head: UTAS, JCU, UWA, UNSW, UNCLE, UWS and UNE all take non-standards. You can check the requirements out yourself, but generally, it's exactly the same as Year 12 entry. Only difference is that your GPA is also used in assessing you (sometimes this is looked at as your only academic results, sometimes they use it if it is better than your ENTER and sometimes they use both your ENTER and GPA) . You need to do well in the UMAT, need to do your interview, and you need to maintain a competitive GPA. Only Monash, UQ school leavers program, Griffith's school leavers program and UAdel dont allow non-standard entry. But as you can see, you have so many other option!

Also, do a degree which will you are interested in most and will get the best scores for non-standard transfer. this isn't vce, no subjects scale up when calculating GPA. So, for example, you do Optom (which is regarded as a hard degree), you wont be looked at any differently than someone who done Science (or anything else). So pick the Uni, and course which you will enjoy and do the best in.

Remember, Grad med should only come into play if you dont get undergrad non-standard transfer. So focus on undergrad med first, if that's what you really want. Lastly, you may start to like pharm and not want to do med after a year of pharm... so dont go in with a negative attitude or else you'll have a negative experience.

vexx:
^ when i said cannot transfer into it, i was just talking about undergrad med in victoria.
the OP never said anything about wanting to go interstate so i just didn't bring it up hehe.
but yes if your willing to go interstate there are much more options/ways to get into med !

but yeah pharmacy, as i said: you need second year anatomy, biochemistry and physiology.
and i can't remember ( i think it's anatomy and physiology) that aren't covered in the pharmacy course and tehre aren't room to put them in unless you do them aside your degree (overload).

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