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[Bob.J]

uwa doesn't include the UAI for a non-standard student so it doesn't matter what UAI he got. I think lexi had a credit avg for first year, which is over the academic cut-off for uwa.

 

[inasero]

I wouldn't call his UMAT meagre...

Of course, they were smashing!
I meant his first time scores.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

are you serious?????????????????????

like what was your UAI? EDIT: 206?

i know 2 blokes who got into med and dentistry in adelaide

uais: 97 and 96

but never heard of 79.10? u gotta be kidding!
did u get HDs in nanotech or something?

err adel only needs 90+... so if u think 96 is low.. u got other things coming..
but in med there are 10+ with 99.95 ...
just depends on ure interview

UAI dun mean shit.. and the HSC sciences are a joke.. so i hav more respect that he got good uni marks!!

 

[SoCal]

Congratulations Lexicographer! I know you wanted Medicine bad.

 

[theone123]

i think he did really well in semester 2

 

[Slidey]

For some reason whenever I think of Lexigrapher, I think of chimneys. Damn C60.

Good job, BTW. What will happen to nanotechnology, though?

 

[mr EaZy]

stuff nano! welcome to the world of med!

btw congrats on ur BOS stamp of approval

 

[mr EaZy]

STFU I wanted to tell my family first

Here's a list of all my 2005 offers:

NSW: BSc LLB, University of Wollongong
VIC: No offers ROFL
TAS: BSc + Intro to Law, University of Tasmania
QLD: BSc, University of Queensland
WA: MBBS Bonded, University of Western Australia (late)

飲ま飲まイエィ！

what so u were into law and science as well

lol thats peculiar....

 

[CrashOveride]

What does "med bonded" mean ?

 

[mr EaZy]

i think u need to spend time in the outback/ rural area for a few years

 

[theone123]

unbonded = stay in urban areas

bonded = rural areas

 

[Lexicographer]

hmm a lot to reply to here...

Ok, first of all my history.

2003 UMAT results available in several threads, but my scores (percentiles) were:

62 (88), 78 (96), 55 (62) and UAI 79.10 = many interviews (fake predicted 95.00) but no offers

2004 performance was:

61 (88) 69 (98) 76 (99) and TPS 5.75 = interviews at UNCLE and UWA, late bonded offer at UWA

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Slide Rule: Haha I remind you of buckyballs in the chimney? I must have pushed nano a little too far! Speaking of Nano, I am going to miss it but it'll always be there if I want to come back and learn more. Medicine won't get me nearly as rich or famous as nano might, but I will have the satisfaction of fixing people up directly rather than "eventually" (as would have been the case had I pursued the research path). I'll miss International Studies even more.

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As for my non-med preferences, yes I would very much like to study some science and law (I have an especially keen interest in law) but I realise that I would not find sustained fulfilment in these careers. I'm satisfied with the prospect of perhaps taking an LLM later on or something short like that.

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To put it simplistically there are four kinds of place offers for medicine made to local students. The first is full fee paying, these were introduced this year and there are very few of them. The other three are all HECS places (now known as Commonwealth Supported Places - CSPs). First is your straight CSP - go in, pay HECS, graduate and practice. Just like any other course, and the most common type.

Next is BMPs, or Bonded Medical Places. These places are seperately funded by the government, and offered on the condition that the student occupying the place agree to work for a total of six years in an area of need according to their specialty. As you guessed, there are mostly rural areas but those taking on more obscure specialties find they are needed just about everywhere - it all depends on what you decide to specialise in and how desperately specialists in that field are needed.

The last kind is from memory the rarest, the MRBS place. Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships are basically bonded (BMP) places with a scholarship attached, payed to the student each year. There are probably some differences between these last two aside from the money but I don't know what they are and if you are really interested then you can find out yourself.

 

[AK Gumbi]

Congrats Lexi!

 

[Bob.J]

unbonded = stay in urban areas

bonded = rural areas

here's a more detailed version

bonded= RRMA 2-7 definitely. eg of RRMA 2=up to 100000 pop. in city/town, 3-7 is basically rural/remote
You can work in RRMA 1 only if the specialty you're working in is below the national average. RRMA1 is big cities/metropolitan etc.

 

[inasero]

though you do have to spend time in rural areas with a bonded scholarship, its not at all that bad (most people conjure images of remote locations). The thing is that if you get a bonded offer it means you were one if the last 10-20 people to be accepted into medicine and in Lexis case just scraped in with a late bonded offer.
So if you get such an offer you have to think long and hard about whether you're prepared to commit yourself to a rural area. As Bob said, if you decide to specialise you might be able to convince the govt. to let you work in RRMA 2 (or maybe even RRMA 1 if you wanna specialise in OBGY).

 

[Frigid]

(or maybe even RRMA 1 if you wanna specialise in OBGY).

that sounds even better than an unbonded offer

damn.

 

[mr EaZy]

well congrats again lexi!

yeah if u get into med, u probably cant sustain a passion for law

but if i could get into any B. degree in the world at any uni, one of my top choices would be a combined LAw and medicine degree at Monash.

And ofcourse, ill be doing it JUST FOR FUN!!

 

[mr EaZy]

Wats OBGY??

sorry for asking

 

[hipsta_jess]

obstretics (sp?) / gynaecology

ob is generally delivering of babies
gyn is looking at womens health issues
but they go hand in hand, most ob's are also gyn's

 

[m111]

... and "rural" does not NECESSARILY equate to "bad"!!!