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Retired Nov '14
If you really want to do MBBS and for the right reasons, you'll try it again and again until you got in (within reason).
yepdidnt a person on these forums get into JCU med with 94 atar and activities
My friend did this and got offers for UNSW, UWS, Griffith, Monash, and maybe elsewhere.Forget your current UMAT.
Focus on your ATAR.
Then
=Apply for JCU
OR
=Take a gap year and do the UMAT again next year (like a whole group of med hopefuls I know).
OR
=Take medical science/ whatever other course you want, and transfer over whenever you can.
From what I've heard, rip root got into undergraduate MBBS from engineering.
There are still plenty of ways to get into undergraduate medicine.
Yeah, there are people in my cohort who have tried for 5 years.I know someone that just go into med at about 27/28. The sat the UMAT twice and then sat the GAMSAT maybe 5/6 times. They didnt do it every year after graduating but kept at it, improving their score each time and finally got in at 2-3 universities this tiem.
That shows perseverance, dedication, a will to do medicine and problem solving.
If your posts here show your attitude, I cant see you ever getting into medicine and if you did, i know which doctor id rather go to
+1If you really want to do MBBS and for the right reasons, you'll try it again and again until you got in (within reason).
That's fantastic for them but.. I don't know too many compatible lifestyles that will allow for the 15+ year training/studying prior to working (assuming specialisation) beginning at age 27/28. Please don't equate 'my attitude' with my posts here regarding a test which I personally think is futile; what a dumb remark to 'know which doctor' you'd rather see. Wouldn't you rather go to the best? Or are you too high and mighty for people with conflicting attitudes..I know someone that just go into med at about 27/28. The sat the UMAT twice and then sat the GAMSAT maybe 5/6 times. They didnt do it every year after graduating but kept at it, improving their score each time and finally got in at 2-3 universities this tiem.
That shows perseverance, dedication, a will to do medicine and problem solving.
If your posts here show your attitude, I cant see you ever getting into medicine and if you did, i know which doctor id rather go to
I think he/she meant they would prefer to go to a doctor who is truly passionate about their job and was determined to make it, as opposed to someone who complained about the tests required to become a doctor.That's fantastic for them but.. I don't know too many compatible lifestyles that will allow for the 15+ year training/studying prior to working (assuming specialisation) beginning at age 27/28. Please don't equate 'my attitude' with my posts here regarding a test which I personally think is futile; what a dumb remark to 'know which doctor' you'd rather see. Wouldn't you rather go to the best? Or are you too high and mighty for people with conflicting attitudes..
Thanks to all for the constructive inputs.
Maybe so, but saying something like that is just stupid when in reality if your life depended on surgery that could be performed by an amazing surgeon who always complained or a crap surgeon who loved their job etc you'd obviously choose the former. Sorry for the absurd example but my point was aimed at the pretentious side of the argument.I think he/she meant they would prefer to go to a doctor who is truly passionate about their job and was determined to make it, as opposed to someone who complained about the tests required to become a doctor.
My friend is 35 and he's doing medicine. You just need a great wife and if you don't, it will be hard but not impossible. Don't think about specialisation when you aren't even in medicine. That is a totally different ball game and it will continue to change overtime. You will soon discover medicine doesn't have the job security it had in the past, doctors are finding it hard to get jobs after specialisation training in urban areas.That's fantastic for them but.. I don't know too many compatible lifestyles that will allow for the 15+ year training/studying prior to working (assuming specialisation) beginning at age 27/28. Please don't equate 'my attitude' with my posts here regarding a test which I personally think is futile; what a dumb remark to 'know which doctor' you'd rather see. Wouldn't you rather go to the best? Or are you too high and mighty for people with conflicting attitudes..
Thanks to all for the constructive inputs.
You don't have to specialise.That's fantastic for them but.. I don't know too many compatible lifestyles that will allow for the 15+ year training/studying prior to working (assuming specialisation) beginning at age 27/28. Please don't equate 'my attitude' with my posts here regarding a test which I personally think is futile; what a dumb remark to 'know which doctor' you'd rather see. Wouldn't you rather go to the best? Or are you too high and mighty for people with conflicting attitudes..
Thanks to all for the constructive inputs.
Go rural then. If you're not willing to do that then you shouldn't have studied med.My friend is 35 and he's doing medicine. You just need a great wife and if you don't, it will be hard but not impossible. Don't think about specialisation when you aren't even in medicine. That is a totally different ball game and it will continue to change overtime. You will soon discover medicine doesn't have the job security it had in the past, doctors are finding it hard to get jobs after specialisation training in urban areas.
That's pretty exaggerated. Yes there are training hurdles along the way but job security is much much higher than other jobs out there. Yes, you can go rural but if you decide to be do Obs and Gynae and then decide to be a urogynaecologist that only focuses on urinary incontinece well yes, it will be hard at first but there will definitely be a job for you in private practice.My friend is 35 and he's doing medicine. You just need a great wife and if you don't, it will be hard but not impossible. Don't think about specialisation when you aren't even in medicine. That is a totally different ball game and it will continue to change overtime. You will soon discover medicine doesn't have the job security it had in the past, doctors are finding it hard to get jobs after specialisation training in urban areas.
I never said there will be no jobs and I didn't say it wasn't easier than other jobs. I'm saying in comparison to the past, it is pretty hard to land a public staff specialist position nowadays in an urban hospital. You can go rural or you can go private or you can do some research to boost your CV. There are still options but the road is long and arduous.That's pretty exaggerated. Yes there are training hurdles along the way but job security is much much higher than other jobs out there. Yes, you can go rural but if you decide to be do Obs and Gynae and then decide to be a urogynaecologist that only focuses on urinary incontinece well yes, it will be hard at first but there will definitely be a job for you in private practice.
You should feel like a monkey if you're letting a single test impact your opinion of yourself, i'm just pissed off because its stopping me from doing what I want to do at the moment.ouch man i feel your pain. i got 61 percentile. i feel like a fucking monkey. a few ppl were giving me shit at school for it. those fuckers who got 100% and go brag about it -_-
Getting 100% doesn't mean you'll get in. If they brag about it, it just shows lack of humility which is a quality they look for in the interview. Just understand doing medicine means committing up to 20 years of your life studying and having a pretty poor social life if you pick a specialty other than GP. It will be tough as hell but if you want it that bad, go for it.You should feel like a monkey if you're letting a single test impact your opinion of yourself, i'm just pissed off because its stopping me from doing what I want to do at the moment.