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Interesting. At my school we place a large emphasis on developing communication skills to enable us to do just what (I think) you are trying to get at. Basically it is pretty logical and easy stuff - you don't need to be a genius to be able to do it - you just have to be able to be emotionally...

I think that is probably the best advice anyone will be able to give you....although I don't really think it matters which school you go to in the long run: every school will turn out some good doctors and some not-so-good ones....its what you do with your education when you have finished that...

Yeah got to hate it when that happens....I have noticed that lecturers will quite often emphasise what they feel the important core info on any given topic is during the course of their lecture and that does help when it comes to cramming before exams....also most of my class is really nice so...

Research experience consists of learning at least 15 different ways of explaining why your experiments haven't worked without sounding like you stuffed them up. :D

Jambo - I have a couple of q's for you about brisbane: 1) How easy do you reckon it would be to get a part time job in the inner city (or in the 'burbs - where ever!) - I know that I will be pretty gosh darn busy with med school but a person has to eat (and sleep is for the weak anyhow) 2) what...

Hey jambo - I'll tutor you in exchange for a free place to live! ;) I sat the Gamsat in 2001 too and scored pretty well.....to be perfectly honest I think actually trying to learn most of the chem/physics stuff is a bit misleading. The test isn't really designed to see how much you...

I think it is also used for cold sores (like on the corner of your mouth)? So I wouldn't worry too much.

I commend your desire and motivation to enter into medicine and truly hope you do well, but based upon your post I had a couple of thoughts that you may want to consider in terms of how you approach your application: