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Has anyone gotten a rejection letter yet? Or do they send those out only at the end?
I'm all but resigned to waiting for another year, find another job and maybe retake my MCAT. Does anyone know if the interviews are still ongoing or are they done?
Thanks in advance.
Has anyone gotten a rejection letter yet? Or do they send those out only at the end?
I think the interviews go on until April. I'm going for an interview tomorrow.
Okay, this is a bit out of the topic....
Is anyone thinking of trying to get housing in Singapore yet? The fact that I am not and can not be physically there until July is worrying me. Is there a good website that I can visit? Or if someone can offer me a good deal in housing, that would be grrrreat!
Okay, this is a bit out of the topic....
Is anyone thinking of trying to get housing in Singapore yet? The fact that I am not and can not be physically there until July is worrying me. Is there a good website that I can visit? Or if someone can offer me a good deal in housing, that would be grrrreat!
Hello folks,
I was the only one who was interviewed today. I think I'm the last person to be interviewed, they said, so decisions should be finalized in April. It seems like this year's class is quite diverse (very many students from everywhere), and the male/female ratio should be 50:50. Last year was heavily skewed towards females. Anyone else thought the TeamGMS idea is kinda cool?
Did you apply for financial aid when you were there?
Now, the NUS are introducing a scheme where 3 students will need to stay in 1 room due to the fact that, there are space shortage.
Please think twice before choosing to stay in the dormitary. In actual fact, after i have done a simple calculation, the cost of staying somewhere near to the NUS campus is cheaper than staying in the dormitary and you do not need to share your room with anyone; you can have your own privacy and own personal space.
I would like to help but my parents don't allow. I am staying very near to NUS; in fact, my apartment is just opposite NUH. Just a ten minutes walk and you will reach NUS.
Just to help with the problems with accommodation for international students, this is the email sent by the Duke-NUS Student Affairs Department.
"Accommodations
As a start, any students (especially those of you coming from overseas) who would like to connect with other students looking for accommodation will be invited to an online forum by mid-April. General information can also be provided in the forum to help those new to Singapore orientate themselves to the different residential areas. Please send an email to [email protected] if you will be looking for accommodation in Singapore and would like to consider sharing apartments with other students."
Hope this helps
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Hello, is there any one here in their late twenties or early thirties considering to apply or who has applied to Duke-NUS GMS?
Would like to get in touch because I am in a similar phase of my life and we can exchange perspectives and opinions on undergoing Med sch as a mature student. Please PM me.
For the others here, what do you think are the main challenges of a mature student pursuing Med sch and subsequently a medical career?
Hey there,
I jus received the acceptance letter via email...quite thrilled. Was one of the late MCAT takers so had my interview on the 20th of March.
Am Sri Lankan but studied in Singapore at NUS. Looking forward to meeting up with you guys before term starts..
Dear forummer,
Mas Selamat (a J.I terrorist leader) is on the loose in Singapore. If you want to come to singapore, please be careful as he is targetting your race (not necessarily you). *not meant to be a racist comment but to remind you that our country is not that safe as it might seemed to be*
I am planning to enter a medical school in the USA and you are coming to my country instead. To experience Asian culture?
Staying in the NUS dormitaries is what most students will do (including some of the local students here). Now, the NUS are introducing a scheme where 3 students will need to stay in 1 room due to the fact that, there are space shortage. Please think twice before choosing to stay in the dormitary. In actual fact, after i have done a simple calculation, the cost of staying somewhere near to the NUS campus is cheaper than staying in the dormitary and you do not need to share your room with anyone; you can have your own privacy and own personal space.
I would like to help but my parents don't allow. I am staying very near to NUS; in fact, my apartment is just opposite NUH. Just a ten minutes walk and you will reach NUS.
Kiz, thanks for the information. While I am very impressed with the program itself and the quality of education, signing away 10 years of my life seems a daunting decision and will require careful thought. I have not declined my offer as yet and am very much doing research and learning about life in singapore. I have no doubt in my mind that the educational opportunities will be great but other factors have to be taken into account as well. On that note, I am curious about the pay scale for residents or recent medical school graduates in singapore. If anyone can chime in on this I would really appreciate it. How much can a resident, fresh out of medical school expect to save after paying rent and food expenses? Thanks!
Dear JamaicanDoc:
I think it is more highly likely that you will be a clinician scientist (should you consider to matriculate at Duke-NUS and serve out your bond) than a resident physician. I am not too sure about the pay-scale of a clinician scientist though. If you think academic medicine/research is for you, do give Duke-NUS a second thought. In my case, I wanted to be a practising physician, which is why Duke-NUS route is way out for me. Ultimately, it's all about personal choices.
Hello, I think GMS graduates will go into residency programs, according to the information on the website and at the admission seminar. But the details of the residency programs are not known yet because they are still planning it. I think the plan is that graduates choose their preferred career track.
Actually there is no clear-cut definition of what is a "physician-scientist" career because doctors can be involved in research at varying degrees. And research can be laboratory or clinical in nature. I think currently, there is no pure clinical specialisation program. In the current specialisation structure of BST and AST, I think there is also a research requirement of the trainees.
So it seems that if you want to specialise, there is no way that you can avoid research altogether. The GMS bond is 4 years, and it is likely that at the end of the bond, you would have finished or nearing the end of your residency program. After the bond ends, you are free to choose what you like to do with regards to your career.
Unless you are worried that this residency program that they are planning does not lead to qualification as a specialist.
I feel that MOH would desire to nurture more doctors who can contribute to research in future through GMS. But I do not think they will force people forgo clinical work altogether because if they do this, would it not tarnish the reputation of this program and affect future enrolment? Will Duke allow this (they also have a stake in this collaboration)? Besides, most good physician-scientists are practicing specialist doctors who have seen a lot of patients and cases. I believe MOH is hoping that we have more specialist who would choose to spend some time in research and not to produce medical graduates who spend all his time in the laboratory as a scientist, although that option would also be available if the student desires this career track.
What do you think?
I will stand by what I say with regards to specialisation. If you have been following the news, the head-honchos (A*STAR of Singapore) tasked with building up Singapore as a biomedical hub has identified translational clinical research as one of its focus. In line with GMS and the head honchos' goals, I am not surprised at the current perception is that GMS wants to produce clinician-scientists. Even professors in the know of happenings within GMS seemed to be telling me that in informal conversations at the very least. One advised me that if I want to be a physician per se, forget about Duke-NUS. (not heaping scorn on Duke-NUS, but rather the issue is the difference between applicant's and Duke-NUS focus)
In Singapore at least, specialty training is by no means a short process. Unlike regular MBBS graduates, the Duke-NUS applicants would be behind by 5 years at the very least (if they do their four year bachelors). The perception is that GMS graduates will be more or less involved in clinical research as opposed to patient care (which will be handled by the MBBS graduates). I am not sure myself if conducting research is part and parcel of specialty training, but my friends in regular MBBS program aren't that enthusiastic about research.
With regards to the nature of the Duke and NUS collaboration, I would rather choose not to comment as there is not much information on that.
Hello! I got accepted to the GMS for entry in Jul, so I'm looking to sell my MCAT study guides (ExamKrackers and Kaplan) at a cheap rate. Anyone interested please pm me. Good luck to all those applying this year!
i am new to the forum...hi everybody
few questions:
1)when did u guys submit ur application? is it really a rolling admission?
2)do we needa submit the reference letter right after the application online?
3)i have kinda research exp, but it is in rehabilitation field (not clinical), does it count as research exp?
4)plus i am not a singaporean...does it do me any disadvantage?
thanks
hey travis,
1. You are supposed to submit your application by the 1st of Dcember 2008. I would advice you to submit as early as possible as they do have a rolling admission. I heard that they are gonna be sending out acceptance letters as early as October.
2. By the time you submit your application you should have requested for 3 to 5 referrence letters. Until they reach them they wont process your application.
3. Any form of research helps..the more diverse the better
4. You are definitely not at a disadvantage..
Try to do your MCAT in Sept, should get the results by Oct and then you may submit your complete application.
good luck,
one more thing is...as i have less than a month to prepare my MCAT...
i may need to revise the stuff intensively...so here comes the problem...
u guys revise all stuff in the review book of each subject (the very thick one) or do plenty of the mock tests? and in average how many mock test u guys done? u guys buy all test in the official site? it sounds to cost a lot, i am a very poor student
thx