I am 17, will be a freshman at the University of Vermont in USA. I will be majoring in Environmental Science, maybe with a double major in Geology. I am thinking about going to medical school after i finish my 4 years at college. Do you think this is a good background for work in Australia? I have heard that there are jobs in need in Australia like doctors nurses and miners. Should i finish my college in USA or do like 2 years in USA and transfer to a school in Australia, or do 4 years in USA then medical school in Australia?
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Aussies love you to go to school there www.immi.gov.au have a look
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, please. We need nurses urgently, like yesterday. When can you start? It's getting harder and harder for people to meet the requirements for working here, but nurses, oh yes, and did I mention please. I grew up for the first 12 years of my life, in a rural town, with no doctor and only two nurses, to look after the whole town. They were the best, love nurses. Well, why you still sitting there, get a move on, lol!!!
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Moving to Australia to study and moving to live are two different things - a student visa does not make you able to work in Australia after graduation - you need to have experience in your profession outside Australia and then you have to have a profession is in need in Australia. Brand new medical graduates are not in need in Australia - we need obgyn specialists and doctors able to run rural centres and be the only doctor in a town, on call 24 hours a day for 2 years at a stretch (so a nondrinking life is a must for that). New grads are not able to be tis kind of doctor for a couple of years. Moving to study - most of the medical degrees are undergraduate 6 year degrees. There are a couple of postgrad degrees available but they only have 5-10 places for international students (perhaps 4 degree across the country - USyd is one).
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If you want to eventually emigrate to Australia, it would be better if you do your medical school here - it makes registration to work in Australia a great deal easier than it is with a degree from overseas. Some of our universities still offer undergraduate medical degrees, but 11 now offer only graduate degrees as in the USA. You could do all or part of an Australian undergraduate 3 or 4 year degree here and then apply to an Australian graduate medical school for which you will need to pass GAMSAT to gain admission. If you do your undergraduate degree in the USA, an MCAT pass is required: http://gamsat.acer.edu.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=1&Itemid=2 You could also apply to do an undergraduate medical degree at an Australian university but will need very good academic high school results in order to qualify for admission - Australian universities are not interested in extra-curricular. Remember that our uni year begins in late February, so you probably still have time to gain admission for 2010 in most unis if you would like to begin sooner rather than later.
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