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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

The Royal Melbourne hospital is now offering a combined rotation for interns - melanoma and plastic surgery. Sounds like a great idea for anyone interested in dermatology... I wonder if any other hospitals have something similar interns can do?...

I'm interested in doing a Masters in Int'l Public Health part-time during internship and residency and was wondering if this is advisable. What have people heard/read/been advised about doing that? - is it possible to do a course with the workload of internship/residency/having to go rural/needing to prepare for training programs?...

On Tuesday 27th May the My Medical Career team enlightened the minds of Monash University undergraduate students to the huge range of career opportunities available to them. Amongst other speakers (an intern, a rural GP and an infectious diseases consultant) Dr Cosmin Florescu shared his experiences to a room of...

I noticed a post recently suggesting a medical student community. Just to let everyone know, if you would like to create your own community to share topic focussed ideas or resources, just log in, click on "My Communities" (black bar at top of page), then "Create new community". You will...

Like most students who tell their family or friends that they are studying medicine, I get the typical “What do you want to be?” or “What would you like to specialize in?” questions and I have a prepared (abridged) spiel “I would like to be a blah”, or “I like...