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Which results affect job prospects

  • 05-02-2009 2:59pm
    #1
    papajimsmooth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭


    I was hoping that somebody here might be able to explain to me how your college results affect your job prospects. I thought that your final 2 years results were what you used to apply for jobs in medicine but I was told today that a transcript is used of all your results throughout your medical degree.
    Does anyone have any first hand experience with this that can explain it to me, or which jobs require a transcript. Thanks.


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  • #2
    DrIndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    if you want to go into medicine, you should have an honours in medicine likewise for the rest.

    To be guarranteed a scheme, you need a 2nd honours overall or higher, ideally with the speciality of interest being a 2nd honours too.

    If you happen to not have this, there is still hope! If you haven't the ideal grade, working in 6month posts in medicine or surgery will bolster your chances of hitting a scheme the next year and also you get accredited for this time (most posts) by the RCPI/RCSI


  • #3
    drzhivago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    DrIndy wrote: »
    if you want to go into medicine, you should have an honours in medicine likewise for the rest.

    To be guarranteed a scheme, you need a 2nd honours overall or higher, ideally with the speciality of interest being a 2nd honours too.

    If you happen to not have this, there is still hope! If you haven't the ideal grade, working in 6month posts in medicine or surgery will bolster your chances of hitting a scheme the next year and also you get accredited for this time (most posts) by the RCPI/RCSI

    Could be very facetious and say what affects job prospects most is what job you want to do, specialties that are less popular are not as competitive

    very competitive specialities like previous poster said may require honours degree, I find that one difficult as a person can qualify without this and go to interviews a number of years in a row bettering themselves, royal college exams, Masters degree, publications but people keep quoting to them the one thing they cant go back and change ... the fact that they didnt get an honours degree when they qualified.


  • #4
    NickCarraway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭NickCarraway


    From my experience and that of my peers it can all be a bit random. The top placed students got 2nd round, 3rd round or no offers for schemes. The less academic minded got their first choices. Even people who had to repeat their finals.
    People who got no offers after internship spent 12 months doing ED or whatever in Australia came back applied for basically every specialty and got offers from all of them.
    Do your best in your exams, but don't sweat if you don't get a first in your chosen specialty.


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