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• Robert Smith posted Physician Assistants in Studying or training in Queensland to My Medical Career Community
  I went to an information seminar about the new Physician Assistant (PA) last night at UQ - primarily as a medical student who was interested in what the scope of practice will be, how they will fit in with the health care team etc. The new program at UQ for...
• Robert Smith commented on The possibility of double specialties?
  Hi t0t0_boy Howard brings up an important option. There really is no limit to what you can do as a GP and many GPs have areas of interest and get extra qualifications in those areas. Remuneration is increasing and not...
• t0t0_b0y commented on The possibility of double specialties?
  Thank You very much for the info. :)...
• Tran Le posted GPSN Sundown Cocktail - Friday 21st November 2008! in General to My Medical Career Community
  Dear All, My name is Tran Le and I am the Ambassador for the General Practice Student Network (GPSN) at Griffith Medical School. I would like to thank everyone who became involved with GPSN this year (members, committee and sponsors!). To wrap up the year, the local GPSN clubs (Bond,...
• Howard Liu commented on The possibility of double specialties?
  Hi there, This might not be a complete response to your question, but I had a placement with a GP who used to be a qualified surgeon. Essentially, he didn't like the lifestyle of a surgeon, so he signed up...
• Howard Liu commented on training for imgs
  Wow that dude was a psych trainee? haha :D...
• Howard Liu commented on Boosting Australia's Vital GP Workforce!
  Great to hear, definitely a much needed boost!...
• Matthew Barber commented on training for imgs
  At the moment psychiatry is not a particularly competitive specialty choice, quite the opposite in fact. You might wish to consider why psychiatry is relatively unpopular. Having said this there's been a fairly public case recently of a pyschiatry trainee...
• Matthew Barber commented on The possibility of double specialties?
  Hi t0t0_boy This is technically possible but the reality is that its incredibly unlikely and probably not as desirable as you might think. I'd be surprised if any had specialty qualifications in both physician and surgery. You'd be best considering...
• Tran Le commented on "Do you have what it takes?" - Interesting read about General Practice
  A great read - thank you!...
• Metis Internet Partners commented on Boosting Australia's Vital GP Workforce!
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• bbg posted training for imgs in Psychiatry to My Medical Career Community
  i have heard that it is extremely difficult for otds to get registra positions in surgery and dermatology.can someone tell me if it is the same for PSYCHIATRY...
• Tran Le posted Boosting Australia's Vital GP Workforce! in General Practice to My Medical Career Community
  5 November 2008 Joint Release Kevin Rudd Prime Minister The Hon Nicola Roxon MP Minister for Health and Ageing The Rudd Government will invest $148 million to immediately establish new GP training places, allowing 175 additional new doctors to begin training to become GPs over the next two years. This...
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• t0t0_b0y posted The possibility of double specialties? in General to My Medical Career Community
  I am wondering if anyone could provide me with some information regarding the possibility of a physician to undergo surgery training and vice versa. For example, can a neurologist receive a training to become a neurosurgeon? Thank you very much....
• Jonathan Tomaszewski commented on OTD radiation oncology
  Hi Ben, I think you would be best off contacting the RANZCR with this query. It will probably be a bit more complex to move to New Zealand and to complete training and obtain fellowship than it would be to...
• ben posted OTD radiation oncology in Radiation Oncology to My Medical Career Community
  Hi Jonathan. First of all I apologies if this is not the right forum for this question but maybe you can redirect me further. I am currently in my 3th year residency in rad-onc in The Netherlands.(Med school in The Netherlands) After visiting New-zealand several times I am considering immigrating...
• mscavone posted Want to blog for a new medical website? in Cardiology and Endocrinology and Haematology and Medical Oncology and Psychiatry and Specialty to My Medical Career Community
  Elsevier Australia is launching a new medical website, specifically targeted at specialists, and we want you to be a part of it! We're looking for enthusiastic bloggers as well as interview participants for short podcasts and vodcasts to contribute to our exciting new online project, which will be launching in...
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• Howard Liu commented on Clinical school experience..does it really impact your career options?
  G'day Rob I was thinking of the same questions sometime ago because I too have to decide on what hospital I would like to go next year. Fortunately after talking to a couple of clinicians, the general consensus is no...
• Robert Smith posted Clinical school experience..does it really impact your career options? in General to My Medical Career Community
  Hi All As a second year medical student with only a few moths to go before I am really let loose on patients- I am to choose my clinical school for 3rd year (possibly 4th year as well). By "choosing" I mean placing my top 3 preferences in a mysterious...
• Glenn Mathieson commented on Radiation Oncology Training Applications - VIC
  Thanks for your help Jonathan as I was lucky enough to get the very last spot in the training program and have accepted a job in Bendigo for next year. I would like to wisely make use of my CME...
• Metis Internet Partners posted Information for future Vascular Surgeons in Vascular to My Medical Career Community
  The My Medical Career Vascular Surgery specialty profile will be added to the My Medical Career website towards the end of 2009. In the meantime there are resources available for current and future vascular surgeons:Australian and New Zealand Society for Vascular Surgery website and theNew Zealand Society of Vascular Surgeons...
• Metis Internet Partners posted Vascular surgery in Vascular to My Medical Career Community
  The Melbourne Vascular Surgery Association (MVSA), together with the Victorian Department of Human Services, have developed a program to collect data about, and report on, vascular surgery in Victorian hospitals.Participating Hospitals:The Alfred HospitalAustin HospitalBallarat HospitalBox Hill HospitalDandenong HospitalFrankston HospitalGeelong HospitalMonash Medical CentreNorthern HospitalRoyal Melbourne HospitalSt. Vincent's HospitalWestern HospitalWilliamstown HospitalThis report...
• Howard Liu commented on General Practice, a pre-clinical perspective
  Hey Matt, interesting thoughts there! It's good to hear what other med students are thinking about in regards to their future As for my thoughts, I feel that all specialties in the future will be extremely difficult to get into,...
• Chris Edwards commented on Impaired doctors - what would you do?
  'Professional suicide' verse potential unnecessary deaths - its amazing that in our health care system we have these scenarios huh! I suppose with the issues in rural workplaces, particularly the lack of doctors in the bush - these are very...
• Matthew Barber posted General Practice, a pre-clinical perspective in General Practice to My Medical Career Community
  A pre-clinical perspective isn't much of a perspective, really. I know a lot more now about the medical careers paths available to me than i did before I started medicine, a lot more. That doesn’t meant I know very much now though, just that I’m not quite as ignorant as...
• Robert Smith posted Impaired doctors - what would you do? in to My Medical Career Community
  Hi All  Last night I went to a GPSN/Advant sponsored moot court case, based on a real life situation, where a child died unnecessarily due to a combination of errors – Briefly:  The girl was 12yrs old, an Olympic gymnast from the Ukraine over here for a Asia-Pacific training camp....
• Howard Liu posted "Do you have what it takes?" - Interesting read about General Practice in General Practice to My Medical Career Community
  Hey guys, I wrote an article for the GPSN (General Practice Student Network) newsletter. Have a read, it may sway you towards/deter you from General Practice. "Do you have what it takes?" As a general practitioner, you see all age groups from newborn to elderly. You will see people with...
• Jonathan Tomaszewski posted Radiation Oncology Training Applications - VIC in Radiation Oncology to My Medical Career Community
  A heads up for Victorian junior doctors: Applications for RO training in 2009 close soon on the 17th of July! Radiation Oncology Training in Victoria Vacancies commencing in 2009 Applications are invited from suitably qualified medical practitioners for registrar training in radiation oncology in Victoria, commencing in early 2009. Radiation...
• Lucy Lu commented on The "Med Student Tsunami" and an Invitation.
  This is one event I definitely wish I was able to attend.  Was the forum held already?...
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• Robert Smith commented on Masters during PGY1/2?
  Hi Amy From All accounts Intern year is hard enough (and important for registration) with out finding time for study. Perhaps after that year while most people are getting ready to choos a path, a masters might help (esp if clinically...
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