this seems to be a very serious problem, and not over sensationalized.
Of course it's a serious problem, but of course it's sensational to make claims that are bigger than the actual facts which have been known for YEARS.
It's sensational to claim (in an earlier post by MSCDOC) that "no int'ls" got intern jobs this year -- not to mention in all respects wrong, and either sloppy or disengenuous by its omission of the facts. And it's sensational (and again incorrect, and now I'd say dishonest) to continue in this line after others had to qualify his statements, by claiming above that the int'ls are without jobs (um, of course they are, the ballot hasn't even been finalized!), and to further assert that this is the same situation as in other states, who are also in the middle of THEIR ballots.
It's sensational to make claims of the anticipated future as though they are the present.
The reality is, the tsunami has been talked about to death for years, and everyone knows that they can't be guaranteed a job in Australia when they're done, and this eventually means that int'ls will not be able to get a job here, but this has not happened yet. The only "news" isn't that students haven't been guaranteed spots (never have, never should have), but that this year, it may be that some subset of the int'ls won't get them in NSW, and maybe some in Qld. Which has been anticipated all along. What sense of entitlement makes that any more of an issue?
Claiming it's happened before it's happened, when everyone knows it'll happen at some point, is a sensational attempt to pre-empt the inevitable -- what, so one can ultimately say, "told you so"? -- in that case, so can all the doomsdayers of 2003!
And the ballot hasn't been such a surprise this year to the USyd int'l students who if they want to stay should be applying OUT OF STATE, where there are still a surplus of spots -- just as it's disingenuous for someone in the US to have such a sense of entitlement to whinge that they aren't guaranteed a job after med school, let along IN ANY PARTICULAR STATE! Would not a thread on
that seem just a bit...sensational?
Anyone can read any thread on this subject going back to 2003 and see that essentially, *nothing has changed*. I mean, look at the title of this thread -- it's blatantly sensational.
As to the request that "pre-medical students please go do some research before you start arguing" (same 'conversation', different thread)... um, before they start aguing with whom, about what? There's all sorts of loaded rhetoric in there which makes no sense.
So again, I say, please stop sensationalizing, or I at least will continue to harp on about how unneccessary and unproductive the scaremongering of late is.
