Biomed - Monash or UoM

[Russ]

Hey Russ,

If I did do a biomed degree. And, heaven forbid, didn't get into grad med. Would I somehow be able to study engineering?

Engineering after/during Biomed is very (very) heavily slanted towards biomedical engineering. Granted that's a fascinating field, but if it's not your thing then you'd need to do graduate study. And I don't know much about graduate entry engineering.

But at UoM, with their Melbourne Model, you can do M.Eng or something similar after biomed

[98.40_for_sure]

so what are you doing 99.95?

weren't u doing science/engineering

so now ur going to do biomed/engineering? or biomed/pharmeng?

Biomed/eng, sci/eng if enter sux balls
and theres no such thing as biomed/pharmeng? that would be a triple degree if it did exist biomed/eng/pharmsci *drools*

[Studyinghard]

What can you really become after doing the bachelor of biomedicine? I read a thread here a while ago which mentioned that your career pathways are restricted when you pick Bachelor of biomedicine.

[98.40_for_sure]

What can you really become after doing the bachelor of biomedicine? I read a thread here a while ago which mentioned that your career pathways are restricted when you pick Bachelor of biomedicine.

Not so much restricted, but slanted?

[Russ]

It's exactly the same as if you'd graduated from a BSc and majored in biochemistry/immunology/etc.

So with just your undergraduate degree, lab work or an office job requiring your skills (a scientific liaison for example).

Basically, without further study there aren't a lot of truly great jobs

[TrueLight]

You graduate soon yeah?

yep hopefully if all goes well. applied for honours.

so what are you doing 99.95?

weren't u doing science/engineering

so now ur going to do biomed/engineering? or biomed/pharmeng?

Biomed/eng, sci/eng if enter sux balls
and theres no such thing as biomed/pharmeng? that would be a triple degree if it did exist biomed/eng/pharmsci *drools*

lol i dunno i just thought u also wanted pharmeng

[98.40_for_sure]

Yeah pharmsci + chemeng is prett nice, but im a lazy mfker and ceebs going to parkville

[TrueLight]

haha lazy! yeah parkville is far...

[98.40_for_sure]

What are you planning to do now that you're almost graduating? Going into research? pgrad? phd?

[TrueLight]

yeah research in Honours... u cant go straight into phd.

dont really know if i will like it but we will see...apparently its a tough year.

but anyway ill have to wait and see if i get in because marks arent going to be released until later.

[98.40_for_sure]

Ahh someone i know has a phd in immunology but he was unable to find a job for years... he just got one a few days ago but it's not 100% sure since the funding has to go through first otherwise there is no research

[TrueLight]

yeah haha damn funding. thats why u try find a lab with good funding... was looking through the biomed booklet and this one guys lab had got 4 million dollars funding for a 5 year period... thats impressive.

but yeah i dunno i might go into industry later on... ill take it a year at a time

[98.40_for_sure]

Heh, all the best with the marks. Hope you get into whatever you choose.

[TrueLight]

Thanks. You too, first is to get into the course u want

[98.40_for_sure]

Hey truelight... just a random question. i just found some phildadelphia light cream cheese in the fridge and it had chunks of mould. i scraped off all of it and put in the bin but dunno if i can still eat it. should i throw it out? or is it ok to eat