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• #154

Ahhh I see! Could you elaborate more on what rural medicine is like? I'm not entirely sure what its like so I'm curious if it's something that I would like or not mind doing.

Also, how much money are you really making when working in the public health system (i.e during the 10-year moratorium)? Would it be enough to pay off student debt?

Rural medicine varies depending on how "rural" you want to go and what specialty you choose. As a student I've rotated at big regional hospitals about 1:30-2 hours from the city which can handle a wide variety of cases, only having to send the very complex ones off to the city (neurosurg etc.). Later on in your career if you want to go even more rural then there is the option to do "remote area medicine" where you'll be one of a few doctors in the town (we had a few doctors come talk to our class who did this). Some rural hospitals are as close as 45 minutes from the major city. In regards to pay, I would not be too concerned with the difference between private and public. Many of the top hospitals in the state I am in are public and the pay is quite competitive. Intern year pay starts at 80k (in Victoria) and can get close to 95-100k depending on overtime (pre tax). You can always look up jobs online and some of them advertise pay to get a *rough idea. Some rural areas are quite in need of doctors (general practitioners) and offer very lucrative contracts (350-550k) plus will help sponsor/facilitate PR applications (some even toss in a car and house!) You have to remember that training takes longer in Australia than in Canada/US. Most specialties require a minimum of two years post grad (intern year + PGY-2) before you apply to training pathways . Yes you would make enough to pay off your debt during the 10 year period (assuming you take on a standard amount of debt and set a plan actively pay it off). Source: currently a 4th year student with friends in intern year and beyond.

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• #156

Oh wow thats really interesting. Thank you for such an in-depth answer! Are your plans to stay in Australia?

Possibly for the internship year but I'll be applying back to Canada and the US as well. Any more questions feel free to PM me!

• #157

Possibly for the internship year but I'll be applying back to Canada and the US as well. Any more questions feel free to PM me!

Hey. I'm an incoming medical school student. Is it okay if I message you to connect?

Thanks.

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• #158

Hey. I'm an incoming medical school student. Is it okay if I message you to connect?

Thanks.

Yeah of course

• #161

Has anyone here accepted their UWA offer?
I am currently waitlisted for UQ (round 2) and got rejected from Sydney. Just waiting on a response from Melbourne, but my UWA offer expires on October 17th. I'm worried that Melbourne may not give a response before that deadline and I'm conflicted on what to do.
My top choices were originally UQ, Sydney and Melbourne. But I'm feeling pretty discouraged after seeing how competitive this year was.

I would love to hear about anyone's perspectives on UWA. I haven't done too much research on it yet, but it seems like a decent school. Just kinda scared about being in Western Australia instead of the gold coast. Seems like it's pretty isolated from the rest of the schools.

• #163

Hi purple,

If you don't mind me asking, did you get rejected from USyd at or after the confirmation email stage, and what was your MCAT score?

Not sure what you mean by the confirmation email stage?
I have a 510. Apparently they didn't send out a lot of offers this year and the min was 518 lol.

• #166

Like USyd, UWA does not offer year 1 online like UQ. Whereas USyd does not even allow you to accept the offer if you are offshore, UWA does and if WA border does not open by the commencing date, you can defer to next year.

• #174

Hey, huge congrats on your UWA offer! This is unrelated to your query but can I ask how you did for CASPer? I'm still waiting on news from UWA :s

Thanks! I had 4th quartile

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• #178

Hey, huge congrats on your UWA offer! This is unrelated to your query but can I ask how you did for CASPer? I'm still waiting on news from UWA :s

Me too, I haven't heard anything from them yet and I think it's getting late to expect anything.

Even if it's a rejection they should at least send out an email instead of ghosting lol :'(

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• #180

I just declined my offer at UWA. Hopefully it will go to one of you guys.

For UWA, the original deadline to accept was Oct 3 but it was automatically extended to Oct 17. As offers lapse, new ones will be issued.

• #183

What're ur stats if u don't mind me asking?

4.0/517

• #185

Are you Canadian or American? Also wondering ur reasoning for not wanting to do med school in either of those countries.

Canadian. I am applying broadly.

• #186

I just declined my offer at UWA. Hopefully it will go to one of you guys.

For UWA, the original deadline to accept was Oct 3 but it was automatically extended to Oct 17. As offers lapse, new ones will be issued.

If you don't mind sharing, why did you choose to decline UWA?

• #187

If you don't mind sharing, why did you choose to decline UWA?

UWA requires you to be onshore to commence the course.
Vaccination rate is slow in WA and the WA premier has openly resisted reopening. These information do not grant confidence that I will be able to travel to WA by January.
The initial non-refundable tuition deposit and the subsequent total tuition deposit are also quite high at UWA so those are other deterring factors.

• #188

UWA requires you to be onshore to commence the course.
Vaccination rate is slow in WA and the WA premier has openly resisted reopening. These information do not grant confidence that I will be able to travel to WA by January.
The initial non-refundable tuition deposit and the subsequent total tuition deposit are also quite high at UWA so those are other deterring factors.

yeah I know it's still so uncertain what's going to happen
do you have another offer that you're gonna choose?

• #189

yeah I know it's still so uncertain what's going to happen
do you have another offer that you're gonna choose?

Yeah, I have some offers I am still weighing on.

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