From what I heard, each med school in aus guarantees a spot for the grads, meaning they've allocated seats for them in the local hospital. At my place, we don't even have that system >_<

well its kinda weird cos in lecture today we learnt about the low doctor/10k in aussie, and now they say that doctors are gonna crowd the whole place up. I reckon there's a crowding of docs in the metropolitan areas like syd and melb, and no one wants to go to the rural communities.

children education is the main triggering factor for many rural practitioners to leave. + the hectic after hours care + long on-call. I reckon if junior doctors were sent there, it'll be kinda intimidating for them because they are required to do everything. But in a way, it'll push them to self-enhance.

Being off topic a bit, i remembered my lecturer told us that if you wanna be rich, go practice in US. if you really wanna serve humanity, stay in oz and go to the rural areas. haha. we were looking at the health systems in UK, US, OZ and cuba. =P interesting stuff.

back to topic, yes we're trying to get more internship spots currently, esp in tassie.

just another question, does it matter where you get your postgrad training? Sorry I'm still not sure how the postgrad system works. haha =P

well at least its a postgrad entry, and i hope it's not $$$ based. But Johns hopkins U, pretty interesting. =)

Are there many government sponsored postgrad scholarships around? well, if it's affiliated with the government, then yeah, ethnicity will be an issue, again. Is this the first uni offering postgrad med in msia?

haha sorry, din mean to confuse others. Should had used the word postgrad a lil more carefully cos grad entry med is still undergrad.

exactly the point. and its pretty obvious the uni is only trying to suck money out of rich mediocre kids with these gimmicks. Thus our education and medical system collapses. hoorah.

My friends have med books (mostly atlas) on their iphones too. comes in handy i have to say.

thought pakar bedah literally translates to surgery specialists? I'm thinking it's referring to general surgeons? (my BM is bad, apologies if there's any misinterpretation)

I've got a few friends in 2nd year in UWA too =P I failed to get in last year =( boohoo.

Exams lurking around the corner =/ All the best peps =)

I reckon it ain't really ideal to disclose names on a public forum =P but both of them were doing UWAFP with me. Are you all doing musculoskeletal this semester?

medically irrelevant =/

I still will hold on to some of my beliefs =) for example I do believe in chinese trad med, cos somehow they do work (and sometimes they dont), and things like the body is 'hot' and 'cold', if you know what I'm getting on. Guess some wisdom passed down from generations just can't be explained by science, yet they are true =)

so if say my wife is in KL, that means I will have a higher chance of getting an intern spot in KL hospitals and not dispatched to other places? just curious =P

lol, you're kinda not answering my question by focusing on the 'kl' part. and personally, i don't mind rural areas. cos where i am from, some ppl even thought I lived on trees. good for them.

I think you'll be even busier in the rural areas. Eg the rural clinics/ hosp in aussie. Our tutors told us there's most probably just one H.O/M.O attending patients at night. Good in a way, you'll learn heaps, and you're forced to learn. bad thing is the pressure is just overwhelming. but I don't mind getting some experiences from those places. You have a point, if your passion is to 'HELP OTHERS/SAVE LIVES', why can't you handle 'ulu' places? You're practically doing a big favor to the community and you're definitely saving lives and helping others. Guess when ppl's selfish ambitions kick in, hypocrisy surfaces.


still, anyone can enlighten me on the whole 'registered/married' thing and placements for H.O/M.O? =)

Happy new year to everyone in advance. =)

Does that mean that the students will be re-allocated to malaysian ITPS just like what happened in indon 2 years back?

just hope no one's injured =( i mean the students.

oh goodness gracious x.x I've heard from people that in Russia, there're 2 different bunch of lecturers: one bunch to teach international students, and the more prestigious ones teaching their own students. not sure how true is that.

sorry but my advice would be to see a doctor in person. That's the best option. =) hope you get well soon.

isn't 90/60 kinda in the normal range depending on the height? As in different percentiles for different bp. Generally you'll expect a lower BP and higher HR in younger children. Well, I just read this up for my report, unless I screwed up my info.

ah~ I have no idea how to refer to the height percentile though =/ Think I'm suppose to refer back to the growth chart for reference. We have a program to follow a kid from birth till she/he is 2 years old, and we chart the movements and everything else =) which is interesting. Guess it's like a 'pre-pediatrics' learning for me =)

Are you sure that they've secured spots for internships? As far as I know, hospitals are struggling with spots for internships. For the mainland unis, they have reserved spots for their own local graduates. For tasmania, we aren't guaranteed a place in tassie. It's proposed that they will try to increase the internship spots. I reckon for international students, even with 'secured' internship placements, they will send you to rural areas.

Just wondering, is the syllabus for MBBS monash sunway based on Malaysia or Aussie? I mean, there will be differences in prevalence in diseases, risk factors etc.

reckon you can read tortora or marieb if you're really into it. those two are pretty fundamental AnP.