Hey Guys, So with the curtin versus UWA dilemma. I was tossing up both, leaning strongly towards UWA as I wanted to do a second major, UWA was closer to home, more established etc. However at the bottom of their enterance page it says you have to maintain a 5.5 GPA to enter post graduate Medicine. I don't know how feisable a 5.5 is in a Medical sciences major course where everyone enters with a 99. I also hear, (very often in the past years) that UWA is very snobby and all about the rep, whilst Curtin's social life is booming a little more now. Then there is the MD versus MBBS question, does it really matter? All in all very confused, but thinking Curtin?
I just wanted to chime in a bit here, a 5.5 GPA is not very difficult to achieve if you just study consistently. As A1 has mentioned it means that most of your grades float between low 70s and 60s, which again just requires some study and nothing hardcore. I wouldn't be discouraged by this clause.
MD vs MBBS means nothing different in Australia in terms of medical school. It's a primary medical degree which will allow you to be an intern and gain registration. A research MD is a higher research degree which is a qualification Drs may add to their CV. Hope this helped.