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I agree with all of this, but while it may be long and challenging to go from CT/ST1 through to consultancy, do they work the same hours per week that we do here? I don't believe that they do, they do take more years to reach the "top" but they are also taking a stroll through the woods while we are running a race.

UK hours are not brutal, they are significantly better than what they are in Canada. Yes it is true they do not work exactly the EU working time directive, but few if any work over 65 hours a week and certainly no one goes over 80 hours a week. My friends in the UK are aghast at the numbers that medical students are put through in Canada. They go to the wards when they want, its optional.

I would do research if you are interested in a competitive, academic, small or surgical specialty or you are interested in schools/programs that put an emphasis on research. You don't need much, anything will do. Many programs ask residents to do research regardless during residency. If it is something you hate and would make you miserable, don't do it, but if its something you are neutral about, try it. Often times in the beginning you help out with ongoing research which can get you published, or you work on a case report/lit review/systematic review. Also, there is a decent reason why they encourage doctors in training to dabble in it, it isn't purely because they need labour to get their work published and it certainly isn't because you are doing anything practice changing (rare exceptions), it is so that future doctors even if they aren't involved in research (most aren't) can appraise scientific literature themselves (nothing beats that by doing some research yourself).

The only reason I mentioned rads as being susceptible to AI, and I do agree that anything technology related that is invented takes minimum 10 years to enter the healthcare field and likely 20 years before it gets widespread, unless of course it is incredibly lifesaving, but if rads jobs are on the line you can bet that there will be some delays to implementation. I think clinical medicine has some buffer against AI due to the fact that human-human contact is still important and we aren't close to developing robots that look, talk and act like human doctors yet and even once we have that built we will need a multi-year study to determine outcomes. We might develop diagnosis machines but at least in our careers i don't believe we will have fully autonomous robotic doctors and I can assure you doctors will not be the first ones taking welfare there are a whole list of jobs that will be supplanted first. I think surgery even though we do talk about AI robots is still a ways away from fully autonomous surgery. My reasoning is that surgery is still incredibly complex and I don't believe we will be able to just press a button and expect the robot to do the surgery from start to finish with all the complications that occur and surprises that we find. It is still very common for CT scans to over or underestimate the disease. Either way, the easiest job to overtake is a desk job that requires book knowledge and I don't believe that we will not have oversight from radiologists. There will be radiologists for sure, the question is how many radiologists will we need and what will happen to pay. Pilots for instance are still needed to operate planes despite autopilot but their clout and pay has definitely dropped over the years due to their increasingly routine and checklisted nature of their work. While I worry about the future of radiology, I don't believe anyone our age is going to need to worry. If anything the fastest robots could take over would be 20 years in my opinion and by that time we will all have had jobs and seniority enough that it will be the next generation who will have issues finding jobs.

You'll find naysayers about everyfield, I would only go into ophtho if you love eyes and doing tiny microprocedures. That will literally be the rest of your life if you do ophtho and you have to be super comfortable with that. I feel like ophtho is a specialty you'll know if you like or don't like once you shadow it. If you like something don't forget that you could potentially also go to the states where the situation may be different and as it stands the US can often absorb a sizeable number of Canadians based on its size alone. Thing with rads is that it could be targeted for cuts and I still can't get it out of my head that a radiologists job could be taken over or supplanted by machine learning in the future. You also have to really like not seeing patients. You'll know if you like seeing patients or not once you start clerkship maybe even earlier.

If neurologists could actually treat stuff maybe their incomes would improve...

I think how terrible Cardiac is will depend on center. If your center does transplant GG...

I think there is a lot of fear mongering because there was some crisis in internship spots. The reason it became so public was because the politicians became involved. All in all though, I believe it will be managed, i don't think it sounds politically good if a lot of Australian trained international citizen doctors can't find jobs in Australia especially when they want to become doctors in Australia. Overall, its doable, i won't say its easy to come back to Canada. You will work your butt off to match and you don't really get a pick of where you match and sometimes even what specialty you want. So its not something I would ever do lightly, but at the end of the day if you really want it and you can't possibly get into medical school in Canada or the US, I would consider it.

Isn't the cGPA 3.84?

I just know they publish number of applicants and spots and also publish the % that had over 95 and below 95 and the ratio is 2/3rd to 1/3rd respectively.

Yes, it is on their website.

That would ruin the program. The reason for the success of the program is the exclusivity and the resources their students get. They have a certain amount of money for the program, if they expanded it, each student would get less. The reason for their success is exactly because each student gets more because they kept the program exclusive. Health Sci is expanding this year and it remains to be seen whether this will hurt the program, I don't think a small expansion would, but expanding the program significantly would definitely hurt it.

This topic has been beaten to death but i'll entertain it. Mac Health Sci's want med at a higher rate than other programs, they are more selective than other programs and lastly there is grade inflation in the program. Students in Health Sci have more projects based courses that A. often give high grades and B. they have fewer exams, so when they do take the general courses available to other students, they have fewer exams to study for because their workload was more distributed throughout the year. Also, there are a few healthsci courses that are considered bird courses and not available to other students as well. The avg GPA in the program is very high, i'd estimate around 3.9.

Your odds are not 1/10 as a Canadian who studied in Australia. It is closer to 5 or 6/10. All in all, Australia still remains a viable option, between those who stay in Australia and those who come back to Canada or go to the states I believe the majority of students do end up becoming doctors somewhere in the world. The non-debatables are the upfront cost of the education, the amount of hard work you will need to put in, often in excess of what a Canadian medical student would have to put in, and the lack of choice you have in where you will live and work for the next 10 years of your life or so and technically for the rest of your life if you end up in a country you don't like.

Watched the first bit. Trump definitely won that part and I watched the part where Hilary started to get even with him.

Your GPA is not really all that bad but your CARS will hurt you significantly.

Mac Med is polarizing no doubt, it has been on the leading edge of med ed innovation since it was founded, some of the stuff will work, some won't and of course some will spread around the world. This point is also something that Mac students often take some degree of pride in. I definitely don't believe Mac Med is for everyone, but if you are very self motivated (we have more free time than any other medical school which leaves room to pursue your own interests but if you are not motivated, slacking), you have some idea of what kind of doctor you want to be (again you don't have to but at Mac you have less time to decide), you like group learning and you want to graduate early (again there is the option of a 4th year which you can spend doing 60-100% research and up to 40% clinical electives) then Mac Med is a good choice. Mac Med also has a good atmosphere and a lot of camaraderie, the true no grading nature of Mac Med as opposed to P/F is also different, but I do believe it does even more of promoting that atmosphere. Many people talk about "corporate culture", Mac Med has its own culture of group learning as opposed to vigorous examination and for some, that is a good thing and for others it is not their preferred learning style.

I just find it so hard to believe he'll win... but he just might... I always up until this point thought that the number of people who don't like Trump is greater than 50% and so once the establishment weeds itself down to one candidate, Trump will lose. Trump is just selling an outlet for rage and a dream, his way of rallying the people is not too dissimilar from how Hitler rallied people for his own election. Not saying Trump is going to do what Hitler did post election but Trump is just appealing to popular anger. I have serious, serious doubts that Trump will ever be president however. The number of people who would never vote for Trump is much greater than the people that would vote for Trump and a Trump republican nomination will most likely cause independents and democrats to rally behind the democratic nominee.

The way I see it your chances are probably less than 50% of getting an interview since your GPA and VR are both below the average accepted.

Its totally ok to buy it, I did and while it wasn't really super representative of what it was like on the test, I also didn't know many people who could have helped give me questions. Its a bit of money but it can go a long way and I certainly would not start going cheap at this point in the process. If you think about it, the amount of money you've spent getting here absolutely dwarfs the amount of money you can spend on practice tests. Obviously don't go overboard, I only bought a few but its good practice to prepare you for the real thing.

I think we are just going to have to see how the statistics turn out for the c/o 2019 just because the scaling system is a bit off. I honestly don't know how Mac is going to calculate old verbals vs new ones.

I believe 4% is going to be pretty significant, just because most candidates are probably going to have pretty similar scores.

I believe they are American.

I feel like that is a very long shot, don't think its worth applying to UofT.

Probably not unfortunately. If its your only shot and it looks like it would be, I guess its worth it if you really want it but I wouldn't get my hopes up too high.