australia

Hello! I'm canadian. I was wondering if it would be more likley to get into a competitive specialty inside of australia (or going to usa) with an australian MD as an international permanent resident. OR In the usa with a USDO as an international permanent resident. --- with AUS MD the...

Hey guys whats up? I'm a Canadian. I have a 3.85 GPA and a 506 MCAT. Applied last year to USMD, I think I'm rejected from everything. I just applied to OzTREKK. I graduated, but I'm going to take Organic Chem next school year so I can apply to USDO. If I get accepted into an australian med...

Hey all. I'm an American doing my MD at Flinders in Australia and was looking into the process of applying to residency back in the states. I am pretty early in my degree but only now I realized that US clinical experience/rotations are crucial for residency applications. I emailed my school...

Hello fellow friends! I am an internationally trained dentist (not trained in any country recognized by Canada or Australia) and did the International Dentist Program in Canada. (I am a Canadian citizen). I did receive my Canadian dental license, but since as an internationally trained...

Hello all, I am currently a resident in family medicine/GP in Canada, and starting to think about moving to Aus after my residency. Reason: the weather!;) I know a bit about the lifestyle in Aus, but still not sure what the earning looks like as a GP in Aus. People say 200k an average and some...

Hi everyone, I am a current 3rd year student in the US with two externships lined up in Australia. I was wondering if anyone has any insight on what visa to apply for? I'll be staying for about a month. Curious if other people just did a general tourism visa and shadowed at different clinics...

Hello guys I am considering moving to Australia and doing my internal medicine residency there. I am ECFMG certified ( done all the steps including step 3) and was wondering, do I have to do a licensing exam? or is the ECFMG certificate enough? From what I understand, the pathway that I can...

Hey guys, I'm a third year vet student at Adelaide. A few of us have started a peer support group in conjunction with the Australian Veterinary Association. If any of you attend an Australian vet school you're more than welcome to join, here's the link: Facebook Groups Our goal is to...

Hi all, I am currently a medical student in Australia (AU citizen) who is potentially exploring the possibility of completing a fellowship overseas - potentially the U.S. Note that I do not intend to stay in America to practice. I have written this post to get some better clarity on the...

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We are in a predicament folks. The world is burning, and COVID is spreading...I guess. Nonetheless, as students entering Oz, we face disappointing and uncertain times. Perhaps this post will serve to bring constructive debate and information.

Hi everyone, hopefully this post does not come across the wrong way. I come from a place of wanting to understand and possibly inform other North American premeds looking into Australian medical schools. I started looking into Australian medical schools for the same reasons many North Americans...

Hey guys! I know it's a bit early but I've begun my applications to Melbourne and Sydney so I was wondering if anyone else is going through the same process/looking to begin sometime soon! I thought this might be a good place to discuss things if we need to!

Hello all! If anybody is preparing for Australian NVE, plz get in touch here. Thanks a lot.

Hey there! As a non-US citizen, studying in Philadelphia, I've come to the decision to apply to med schools in Australia. I was wondering what is the application process like? What do schools look for? Are there personal statements and essays? What is the interview like? What sorts of questions...

I am a female medical student based in Sydney in my 5th year of study, looking to do the USMLE step 1 in February 2019. I am in the intermediate stages of my preparation, and am planning to really ramp it up in the next few months. I have been going through FA and some UWorld questions this...

I see that there are plenty of questions regarding this already, so I am sorry for posting this, but I don't fully understand some things and can't find a few others so I feel it would be best to ask here. Sorry if most (or all) of these questions have already been posted before. I am currently...

Hey everyone, hope everything is going well :) I'm a 4th year med student in a 7-year MBBS program in Cairo, Egypt. I'm planning to take a licensing exam and practice abroad. But the thing is I don't know where to go. I'm currently in the US temporarily as a research assistant (some sort of...

Hi y'all, please help me out! I'm seriously thinking of pursuing a residency in the US and so, will be taking the boards. My question is, when should I take Step 1? I know the general advice is to take it after the basic sciences (i.e. June of M2 for US students) but my situation is little...

Hi y'all, please help me out! I'm seriously thinking of pursuing a residency in the US and so, will be taking the boards. My question is, when should I take Step 1? I know the general advice is to take it after the basic sciences (i.e. June of M2 for US students) but my situation is little...

Hello All, I'm an American student completing my Bachelor's Degree in the US and I plan on going to med school in Australia. My goal is to train and continue practicing in Oz after graduation. I do not want to practice in the US and the wife and I would much rather earn our citizenships in Oz...

I have my BSc degree in biology and Im in my first year of dental hygiene... took the DAT twice, my DAT scores weren't the best but they weren't bad 21 was my highest and 17 being my lowest mark avg was 19. Tried applying to Canadian dental schools and got the interview for Dalhousie Dental...

New to SDN, so if I am posting this in the wrong place please let me know! Long story short, USA and Canadian MD and DO medical schools are out of discussion because of the obvious reasons of GPA / MCAT and so on. I know going abroad will be harder and risky but, in a quick response please let...

Hi, I understand that overseas trained doctors (OTD) and foreign graduates of accredited medical schools (FGAMS) only have the option of undertaking the rural pathway for AGPT training due to the 10-year moratorium rule. Are there any exemptions to this that would allow a FGAMS to undertake the...

Hey, I graduated this year from Jordan, i still have one year as intern here, then I’m interested in going to Australia.. First of all, I read about the residency in Australia and i saw the AMC website and the medical board, but I didn’t really understood the difference between standard...

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Hi I am a Canadian citizen who is finishing my last year of a 5 year dental program at Griffith University in Australia. My plans are to go back to Canada and work there for a few years. The average income is slightly higher then some parts of Canada and Australia and that is what got me to...

Hi guys! I know about the agreement between australia and canada and that if you do your dentistry in australia you can come back to practice in canada after passing all of your exams. However, I have never seen or heard of a dentist here in canada who has gone to australia from dentistry and...

Hi guys! I know about the agreement between australia and canada and that if you do your dentistry in australia you can come back to practice in canada after passing all of your exams. However, I have never seen or heard of a dentist here in canada who has gone to australia from dentistry and...

Hi all. I'm going to be applying to some programs within the year for my master's, but the biggest issue I'm facing is the financial burden. Are there any current OTs/OT students on here that found an affordable school or method for paying? Student debt is soon to be hounding me and I'm hoping...

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Hi everyone! I'm a German doctor beginning my third year of specializing in obstetrics&gynecology (I think equivalent to a registrar in Australia). I'm thinking of moving (temporarily) to Australia either through the specialist pathway or the short term training in a medical specialty pathway...

Hey, Im about to graduate from Jordan this summer.. thinking alot about doing medical residency in Australia, a relative doctor works there and he advised me come there.. I read alot about Australia but as I read more details I get more confused.. I really wanna hear what do I have to do to...

Gday! I write a blog called Doctors Down Under designed for med students, Drs in training, IMGS etc. from all around the world interested in moving to Australia. I also post accounts of IMGS who have already made the move. I am looking for other real life accounts to put on the website (anon)...

Hi guys, I'm new here so sorry if my post is in the wrong place. Just a bit of a warning, this might be quite a specific situation and a fairly long post. A bit of backstory: I'm currently a medical student in my final year in London. My boyfriend has always said he wants to eventually move to...

Hi all, I'm a current student at an American University looking to study medicine and move permanently to Australia. I would not like to work as a doctor in the US and I have no concerns on moving back to the country. I would like to know if it is possible to study at an Australian Uni like UQ...

For those who have been, are, or will be in a similar situation as me, where you're worrying about copious expenses for graduate school: Please, help! This is my current situation: I just got accepted into the DPT program at Bond University in Australia and am trying to figure out how I am...

My school reports marks on my transcripts in percentages. When I go to convert these percentages on a 4.0 GPA scale, it's around ~2.77 (barely meets the cutoff of 2.7). Whereas if I take those percentages and convert them on a 7.0 GPA Scale (as per GEMSAS), then my GPA is fairly high ~6.3/7...

Hey! I am looking for a Skype study partner in the Aus/NZ time zone. I'm scheduled to take the CS test in December. Please inbox me if you're interested.

Hey, So I'm currently doing my final year in MBBS and about to start my 1 year long internship in January 2018. I've always wanted to move to Australia for my post graduate studies. Hence, to do Masters in Surgery, I'd be really grateful if someone could help me out and outline the...