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    Nursing...which course? Any mature age students?

    Nursing attracts a lot of mature aged students at every institution. I went through Melbourne Uni and have heard good stuff about Latrobe. Don't know much about Deakin. I'm sure you won't be the only or the oldest mature age student in your course. We had many 40+ in ours.
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    Elective at RMH. Which departement?

    Hi there, I think you'll find that you get a fair bit of what we call "hands on experience" in your placement, which means you will take histories, do physical examinations and probably also some small procedures like taking blood or putting in IV cannula. This applies to all departments but...
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    Nurse practitioner

    Haha well done darling, if this is what you want to do: treat minor illnesses, provide vaccinations, write repeat prescriptions, perform health checks and screen patients for cancers including breast, bowel, skin and cervical. then go for it! I do nearly all these in my general work as a...
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    Which Specialty do you want & why?

    I don't really understand why the $$ comes into it, my only guess is that a lot of people in medicine come from privileged backgrounds and are used to having a lot of money. Personally I am looking forward to intern salary as that represents a helluva lot more money than my parents ever earnt...
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    [Undergrad] Life and Medicine

    Like Chinaski I would also suggest that the university part of the medical career is not really the part you should be worried about. I would suggest working with a therapist/counsellor etc now in terms of learning how to balance things and keep on top of the depression. You'll need to have...
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    Junior Doctors UK and Young Doctors AUS

    Yeah who knows, you couldn't pay me enough to be filmed for a show like that. It's interesting watching reactions to the cameras too, I've been in close contact while working and found most other health care workers want to stay away from the cameras and feel their work will be analysed if...
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    Junior Doctors UK and Young Doctors AUS

    Channel 9 (NBN) are currently filming an Australian series about junior doctors at the John Hunter, I think it's planned to screen near the end of this year.
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    Nurse practitioner

    Dude, you're being a complete idiot on here. If you aren't going listen to people who have a hell of a lot more knowledge and experience then what is the point on being on a forum? Nurse Practitioners DO NOT have the same scope of practice as GPs , far far far from it. For instance their...
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    Pre-Clinical Clinical skills in preclinical years by university

    JMP - UNCLE/UNE - the clinical skills tie in closely with topics covered in PBL, it's all still based around PBL learning so you'll get a learning target for the PBL about the physical examination and other investigations for a specific system and/or illness. Year 1 Semester 1 - um maybe blood...
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    Science teaching at Newcastle?

    Yes bizarre and somewhat political.... I get the feeling there are some staff at Armidale who go out of their way to prove their students are better than Newcastle, extra classes, more anatomy including an "anatomy club", etc etc. But maybe it's settled down a little now, and the Armidale...
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    Science teaching at Newcastle?

    There is anatomy lab time schedule but it's not weekly and not a lot, both in first and second year we had scheduled tutes in the lab. No dissections though. The lab was always available for private and further study. UNE actively encourage their students to do an anatomy elective and in our...
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    Nursing or paramedics -> medicine

    Any undergraduate bachelor degree will enable you to apply for grad entry medicine. Nursing and paramedics are quite different careers though and it might be worth doing a bit of research and seeing if you can talk to people in both disciplines. Obviously the work environments are very different...
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    Science teaching at Newcastle?

    Anatomy is not a major component of the course at Newcastle, if you want to get more anatomy then choose the anatomy HUBS elective in first year. As for the other sciences, well they don't teach core sciences like chemistry or biology but you do need the basics of these to apply in the...
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    opinions from med students please :)

    I think you need to ask yourself why you want to do med, and whether you're willing to go back to square on in terms of having to start at the bottom of another career path - when you already have an autonomous role in nursing. Remember that the it's very attractive as a nurse, looking at...
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    How many hours of study per week

    You never "need to", I have never stayed up past 10pm for studying medicine. But people do. It's not the course it's the individual who decides their study pattern.
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    4th Year Exchange Program

    have a search for posts by theangleofdarkness she's in intern year now but did the exchange a couple of years ago.
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    Timetable Newcastle

    Having an au pair will help a lot, it might help to think of the course of an 8:30 to 5pm job (or thereabouts) - if you spend that time, five days a week, either in class or studying you will do well. If you do that you will also get less annoyed and inconvenienced by timetable changes. One...
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    Timetable Newcastle

    Some ppl do definitely commute - those who live on the central coast especially the kids living at home tend to for the first little while, however they get sick of it if pretty quick. Especially the days when you only have an hour or two of class and you spend more time commuting than in class...
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    Timetable Newcastle

    we have had a lot of 8am and 8:30 starts in 3rd year... but I don't remember too many in 1st year although some PBL groups start at 8:30am you can request a later one and with your family situation these requests are granted where possible. Beware the traffic from the CC to Newy is horrid at...

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