diamond*dreams* said:
Not true! If my marks didn't
quite hit the mark, it'd be unfair of me to blame it on anything else and feel "cheated". Besides, there's nothing quite like a good challenge to sink your teeth into! :rofl:
(Session one results have transformed me into the freakin' Easter bunny... huzzah!)
If anything, I've changed my tune. For the sake of educational integrity, I feel that the B Med Sci
lateral transfer scheme should be abolished. Or at least modified. Or something. (Have I opened up a can of worms? Possibly. I'm eating my words here. Oh, the shame.) Too many of the first year students are forgetting that that the program is sometimes-- shock horror!--
stimulating and worth being interested in. It's pretty strange to meet a student who professes their burning desire to study medicine yet can't click with the courses after settling in. Mediocre marks and/or falling asleep might be a yellow flag warning that medicine isn't
quite the episode of House they thought it would be. After all, medicine is just one of many
applications of medical science. It doesn't take a cardiothoracic surgeon to figure out why graduate schools try to cram in as much of the science as possible into the preclinical years.
There are plenty of competitive graduate medical programs all around Australia. In terms of facilitating the demand for graduate medical education, the fifteen provisional spots on offer at UNSW are an unremarkable contribution for a program which calls for such exceptional admission requirements.
On the other hand, if you're, you know, anal-retentive about spending seven years AND ONLY SEVEN!! at uni and you'll have self-esteem issues because your "Ba Med Sci MBBS" will lack the (Hon) if you graduate from, say, the UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, then by all means.
