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From the moment that a medical student receives their university offer until the moment they take the Hippocratic Oath in front of proud family and friends, they will tread a path only taken by a select number before them. However, with medical schools now in every state and territory of Australia, the journey will not [...]
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Introduction In the eyes of the general public, a hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) is synonymous with overcrowding and tedious waiting. Keen to change this, last year, at the meeting of the Council of Australian Governments, the states ratified a National Partnership Agreement on health reform. One controversial outcome of this agreement was the four-hour National [...]
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From treating acute blood loss in children to palliative care barriers for the elderly, this issue truly showcases the enormous potential and diverse interests of Australian medical students. Our authors have not been afraid to address controversial issues such as emergency department waiting times, healthcare financing and comparisons between barrier exams across Australian medical universities. [...]
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The internet has woven itself into the fabric of society, by offering a plethora of services which have evolved from luxuries to necessities. Telemedicine – the use of the internet to transmit information for diagnosis and management – has garnered recent attention because of the Federal Government’s promise to provide AU$392million for its development, and [...]
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University of New South Wales
Since 1999, the number of Australian medical schools has doubled. While this has brought about diversity, it has arguably also created a worrying lack of standardisation in the skills of graduates. National curricula are currently a hot topic, with the development of a standardised Australian curriculum for Kindergarten to Year 12 well underway. Is it [...]
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University of New South Wales, University of Sydney
It is a pleasure to welcome you to this issue of the Australian Medical Student Journal (AMSJ). After the very successful launch of the AMSJ’s inaugural issue in 2010, it has been decided that the journal will now operate on a biannual basis from this year. It has been almost a year since the AMSJ’s [...]
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The progression from university to the workforce in medicine is not comparable to any other discipline or profession. An internship is essentially an extension of a medical degree, and the degree is redundant without one. The issue of the burgeoning numbers of Australian medical graduates, and the associated ‘crisis’ in intern placement availability, is currently [...]
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University of New South Wales
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