Also requested unconditional confirmation in writing which they did and sent by courier.
Accomodation request was also settled pretty fast.
Quite happy with the way they responded.

Looks like Curtin Medical School will get the go ahead after all - now let's see if they bring the medical course to Sarawak a la Monash

https://sphere.curtin.edu.au/teaching/med-n..._med_school.cfm

Oh I should also mention that the University of South Australia and Charles Sturt University are lobbying pretty hard for their slice in the medical education business - odds on Australia having 3 more medical schools by the end of this decade.

Er... Please note that for NSW Internship 2012, AMC graduates were not considered for internships.
And please look at SAIMET (south australia), they are also distinguishing between Sunway and Clayton Campus.
Also Western Australia, they are seperating NZ and Aus international grads, too, things are changing to the worse.

"AMSA president James Churchill said reports released last week by the Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria and the NSW Health Education and Training Institute had allowed AMSA to calculate there would be a shortfall of 146 internships in NSW and 169 in Victoria."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-a...w-1226370444833

Looks like NSW and Victoria are the first states to bite the dust - international students graduating this year to be the first "casualties" of the medical student tsunami.

Considering most international students in Qld, Vic and NSW are from North America, I'd assume they have a back-up plan in the form of the USMLE - as for Malaysians and Singaporeans, the MOHH is doing a recruitment drive in July: http://www.physician.mohh.com.sg/aus_recruitment.html

Is it not their policy to ensure that existing undergraduates are "guaranteed" internships upon graduation and any change in policy should be highlighted before the next batch of first year students begins?

What happens in the past will presume to happen in the future unless notified accordingly.

In this respect, I think bolehland is better, internship is guaranteed though not in the way it use to be.

This is the only information I can dig up - note it's from 2008, so I'm assuming Malaysian numbers have dropped significantly since then (establishment of Monash Sunway, change in course structure from undergraduate to postgraduate and the cessation of JPA sponsorship to Australia). On the other hand, Canadian and American numbers have swelled mainly due to the aforementioned change in program structure and aggressive expansion in international places at UQ, USyd and UniMelb.

Main source countries for international medical students enrolled in Australian undergraduate and graduate entry courses, December 2008*

Source country Numbers enrolled:
Malaysia 1075
Singapore 511
Canada 360
Indonesia 138
United States 79
Botswana 77
Brunei Darussalam 67
Hong Kong SAR 50
Republic of South Korea 42
Norway 27
China 21
Taiwan 19
Japan 15
Sri Lanka 15
India 13
All other 156
Total 2665

*Unpublished analysis by A Langley of Australian international student enrolment data from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Canberra, February 2010.

You know what I'd really to know - how many of these Malaysians are/were government scholars and how many actually returned to Malaysia? JPA and MARA could have easily thrown away tens, if not hundreds of millions of ringgit for those non-returning scholars - would this not be a gross misappropriation of funds on the scale of the NFC?

The only other country on the list of source nations to actually sponsor students to study medicine in Australia is Botswana (and certainly not on the scale that Malaysia did in the past)- and even if the amount is reimbursed in full by the scholar, Malaysia would still have lost the "talent" to Australia - it's a good thing they've finally come to their senses, they've been subsidising Australian medical education for far too long

Let's just say...I'd like to keep my options open 

i think we have to realise, by studying there, we are only buying an education.....and they have NEVER promised the right to internship after, nor right to work......

therefore, what is happening is NOT that they failed to keep their promise, since they promised nothing except an education....it's just that in the past, they have accepted foreigners to stay on and work.....and this may slowly be a closing door.....and we assume the open door comes with the education and get upset when it closes........

Yes, it was not promised but the assumption is there. If internationals do not get internships, the numbers will be reduced quite a lot.

If only they had a 5 yr working forecast, before students move to the starting point, a lot of unnecessary worries could hv been avoided.

Just imagine if Ptptn said close shop end of this year!