Recent content by GrilledCheese

Incredibly rare and only in exceptional circumstances.

Doesn’t matter. All the med schools are good and NSW internships are allocated via lottery system. Once you graduate no one cares which med school you went to.

I never understood graphs like this. Who cares about starting salary? Salary 10, 15, 20 years in seems a lot more relevant.

Not sure. I did GAMSAT.

In saying that life for me is pretty damn good now I’m on the other side of training. Well remunerated, I work 4 days a week, I get very generous annual leave. I have great colleagues. The work is stimulating. Very much a case of delayed gratification.

Yep, the amount of sacrifice after med school when you do further specialty training as a registrar is very dependent on the specific specialty. Anything surgical in particular is brutal but physician training, critical care, radiology etc are all hard as well.

The work load is high for med school but you can definately still have a good social life and hobbies. On the other hand I found that I had less free time as a junior doctor compared to being a med student and then after that doing specialty training/specialty exams was by far the most stressful...

Nah. Med school is a blast. Work hard play hard. Agree to disagree. I did engineering then med. Even took a year off to deploy overseas with the army reserve in the middle. I dont regret any of it and loved my uni days. I had some catching up to do in terms of money but I’ve definately made up...

Most of the time it is better than med sci.

Just re-iterating, having gone through Med, from a practical point of view, if you haven’t done chem you will be able to get up to speed during the course. Med is not as chem heavy as some posters on here have made out.

I did chemistry for the HSC. My undergrad was engineering but I also did do a couple of chemistry electives in the lead up to GAMSAT. It probably helped a bit for GAMSAT but I don’t think it helped that much for med itself.

I hated chemistry. I got through Med without a problem and love my job. Chemistry really isn’t a huge part of medicine.

Looks like approx 40% undergrad. https://medicaldeans.org.au/data/?md_year=2021&data_type=Enrolments&country=AU&students=Domestic&preview=

I studied and trained in NSW. Med school grades had no relevency at any point for me. I can’t comment on if they play into getting a preferred hospital for internship in other states (it’s a lottery system in NSW). They certainly dont mean anything beyond that.

I found getting in to med harder than the degree itself. I found the work as a junior doctor much more difficult than the degree. My specialist exams were by far the hardest thing I have done. As a specialist now, life is much better.