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Intern/NCHD average pay and EWTD

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  • #32
    mcdermla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭mcdermla


    How are you finding GEM?? Are there a lot of nurses in your class? Thank you for saying it would be an advantage, most people laugh in my face when I tell them I want to do medicine, even though I know a hell of a lot more about medicine than a lot of people trying for GEM!


  • #33
    chanste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭chanste


    mcdermla wrote: »
    How are you finding GEM?? Are there a lot of nurses in your class? Thank you for saying it would be an advantage, most people laugh in my face when I tell them I want to do medicine, even though I know a hell of a lot more about medicine than a lot of people trying for GEM!

    I'm finding GEM to be a perverse mixture of fantastically interesting, while horribly hard (at times). I wrote a post at the start of the year telling someone a lot about what I thought about it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=62949066#post62949066

    With the advantage of hindsight my advice to anyone who wants to study medicine would be to say as little about it as possible to anyone, but just get to it. Apply for tests that need to be done, get all the administration done as it comes up - you can back out at any stage, but even the day I sat the GAMSAT I was plodding along thinking that it wasn't actually going to happen. Being a mature student abandoning another career I'd spent a lot of time on, and preparing to subject my partner to 4 more years of poverty, I had a million and 1 reasons NOT to go for it! But I think for me it was something I really wanted so no amount of reasons was going to make me stop going for it. At the end of the day you will get offered a place or you won't. If you do, the naysayers will have to shut up, and if you don't either try again or leave it be.

    I think there are about 10 nurses in our year (out of 91 students).


  • #34
    Breezer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Vorsprung wrote: »
    Got this mail yesterday (my Queensland Health email account ;))
    There is a god, and he rides a kangaroo while hunting crocodiles with boomerangs. Do you think they'll let me book flights for 2012 yet? :D


  • #35
    donaghs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭donaghs


    chanste wrote: »
    I'm thinking that when I graduate I will have to pay near €2000 per month off my med loan for the next 5 years (The thought of asking them to extend period of repayment is awful), and was wondering how other people manage.

    What's a "med loan"? and how's it differ from other students loans?

    At least there appears to be jobs for medical grads, and with good starting salaries.


  • #36
    chanste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭chanste


    donaghs wrote: »
    What's a "med loan"? and how's it differ from other students loans?

    At least there appears to be jobs for medical grads, and with good starting salaries.

    For me the difference is magnitude. I never needed a loan for my first degree because I worked through it. Not really feasible with this course. The fees for Irish/EU students are about 13kEUR per year too, so when you qualify you have several years of having not worked, but considerable expenses in the form of fees and books.


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  • #37
    p_holmz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭p_holmz


    donaghs wrote: »
    What's a "med loan"? and how's it differ from other students loans?

    At least there appears to be jobs for medical grads, and with good starting salaries.

    Good starting salarys that does not justify the effort and put into qualifying for the job or the actually daily task associated with the job (including saving human lives!).

    It just does not make any economic sense to study Med as opposed to say Accountancy, Actuary or indeed law... So I would not attempt to justify it on such grounds (starting salary, prestige of otherwise).

    The best way to look at it (from an outsider's point of view) is that at least you are doing what you are passionate about and providing selfless service.


  • #38
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Breezer wrote: »
    There is a god, and he rides a kangaroo while hunting crocodiles with boomerangs. Do you think they'll let me book flights for 2012 yet? :D

    God may be riding a kangaroo and drinking XXXX Gold now, but in the next 1-2 years there's going to be huge numbers of medical students graduating in Oz, to the point that there won't be many places in the cities for Johnny Foreigner to come In - there may be more jobs in the smaller cities and towns. There's going to be a lot of unemployed doctors around in Ireland in about 5-7 years.


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