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Bond Bond Medicine: General Discussion

No official communication has been able to confirm that, and its rare for universities to 'fail' participants in the interview stage - so I would think all applicants are on the "waitlist" despite any QTAC code

Also, despite many pages of dicussion about the topic with many phone calls, and absolutely no progress on defining the QTAC codes, I think the conversation has been exhausted. I'd like to steer the conversation away from QTAC codes, so any information about the September intake is accesible for other users.
 
dotwingz said:
No official communication has been able to confirm that, and its rare for universities to 'fail' participants in the interview stage - so I would think all applicants are on the "waitlist" despite any QTAC code

Also, despite many pages of dicussion about the topic with many phone calls, and absolutely no progress on defining the QTAC codes, I think the conversation has been exhausted. I'd like to steer the conversation away from QTAC codes, so any information about the September intake is accesible for other users.
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Definitely I agree! I didn’t mean to steer the convo off topic but I thought to ask just in case what the text meant lol. It’s been sorted!

yep regarding qtac codes, at this point they don’t mean much. What bond has told me is that everyone who had satisfied on the offer date (some did have pending) are the ‘waitlist’. However, if a September intake does go ahead, that waitlist will again be reordered, and any change of order won’t be reflected on qtac.
 
glowdetails said:
It’s Bond, what else do we expect lol
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Hey guys,

Midway through my current degree I decided to make a career change to pursue Medicine. At that time, looking at the options I found Bond Medicine to be the earliest way to start the course. Having done the interview and been offered a place, I am unsure on the long term reputation on being a Bond graduate doctor (Being a private small university) as nowadays a lot of doctors are writing MD(USYD), MBBS(UNSW) to differentiate themselves from international doctors. Do patients consider the university their doctor graduated from?
 
Sam007 said:
Hey guys,

Midway through my current degree I decided to make a career change to pursue Medicine. At that time, looking at the options I found Bond Medicine to be the earliest way to start the course. Having done the interview and been offered a place, I am unsure on the long term reputation on being a Bond graduate doctor (Being a private small university) as nowadays a lot of doctors are writing MD(USYD), MBBS(UNSW) to differentiate themselves from international doctors. Do patients consider the university their doctor graduated from?
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I’m assuming you’ve seen a doctor before (GP at a minimum). Did you ask that doctor which university they graduated from and make your decision to see them based on this? This is a genuine question, because maybe you would ask/care about this, but personally it’s not something that has ever even fleetingly crossed my mind. I’ve also never seen that practice you quoted of signing/displaying you name with your university included in the title despite working in a hospital for almost a decade. Is that seriously a common practice in some areas?
 
I would think the case with specialists is they would get patients from referrals from other doctors mostly, which don’t care about university. Also maybe it’s an location thing because i’m the same as LMG, I rarely see it written that way.

Some websites who aggregate doctors like healthshare aggregate data from AHPRA and they put the university down but that’s the only situation where I see it being done.
 
Sam007 said:
Hey guys,

Midway through my current degree I decided to make a career change to pursue Medicine. At that time, looking at the options I found Bond Medicine to be the earliest way to start the course. Having done the interview and been offered a place, I am unsure on the long term reputation on being a Bond graduate doctor (Being a private small university) as nowadays a lot of doctors are writing MD(USYD), MBBS(UNSW) to differentiate themselves from international doctors. Do patients consider the university their doctor graduated from?
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No one gives a fuck about where you graduate from as long as you are a competent doctor lol


Source: know a ton of Bond med grads in Adelaide, Melbourne and a few in Brissy.
 
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