GEMSAS actually asks that you put in six preferences for which medical school you want to go to. This article will go through a couple of perspectives for you to think about when placing in your preferences to get into med schools.
- Location
Perhaps the main variable in picking a med school is its area. How willing would you say you are to move to another state to start your clinical schooling? Assuming you want a job position in Western Australia, your most obvious opportunity at getting that position is to go to a clinical school in Western Australia.
- Entry Requirements
While there are 10 GEMSAS consortium schools, GEMSAS just considers six preferences. One method for boosting your odds of getting in is to ensure that the schools that you have a better shot at getting into are among those six preferences.
For instance, assuming that your GAMSAT Section 1 and 2 scores were superior to your Section 3 score, then, at that point, you should consider applying for a college with an unweighted GAMSAT score (for example a college that doesn't give additional weighting to Section III), for instance the University of Notre Dame, University of Queensland, or University of Melbourne.
- Cost
Note that, while students can get FEE-HELP government credits, the all out cost of the degree surpasses the HELP advance breaking point ($155 448), implying that you should make up the remaining cost yourself.
- Cohort Size
A few clinical schools have bigger cohorts than others. Smaller cohort sizes can be great in that it makes it a lot more straightforward to know your schoolmates as a whole, for example the University of Notre Dame Fremantle just has 100 understudies for every cohort.
Then again, the upside of a bigger school is that the student society might have the option to run more projects and occasions, basically because of the sheer number of helping hands.
- Course Structure
To wrap things up, another significant thought is the course structure. Clinical courses are by and large split up into a pre-clinical stage (where you learn physiology, pharmacology, and so forth) and clinical stage (where you have hospital placements).
While certain colleges have an accentuation on group learning styles, for example, problem based learning, different colleges might have a more prominent accentuation on conventional lectures. Consider how you learn best and what style would most suit you.
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