Posted by alexandra_k on May 2, 2005, at 15:17:11
In reply to Re: Thinking of studying abroad, Can anyone help?, posted by The Resistance on May 2, 2005, at 4:40:06
Ah. I just found this thread. Now the one over on politics is making a little more sense to me...
Heh heh. I'm a philosophy major.
What kind of philosophy are / were you into???
Funnily enough I have been contemplating a change in field over to medicine to become a (you guessed it) psychiatrist myself :-)Great minds think alike???
Perhaps... Perhaps...Ok. The exchange rate between NZ and Britian is more like one pound for about three NZ dollars - so it is even better than you thought. About NZ 80c for one Australian dollar - and the cost of living tends to be cheaper than Australia (especially than the big cities).
With respect to medicine in NZ I can help you out a little (after having looked into it myself). There are only 2 uni's in NZ that offer medicine so that makes life a little easier. Auckland - Which is the biggest city in NZ (north island) and Otago which is in Dunedin down the south island and is a real student town! The cost of living in Dunedin is WAY cheaper than Auckland and so I was thinking of heading off there...
It is fairly hard to get into.
They have a graduate admission criteria that you can apply under and it buys you a year off your degree (pre-med basically).There is usually an interview too - so I don't know how that would work out for you.
Just do a google on "Auckland University" or maybe "University of Auckland" and "Otago University" and check out there med school pages about entry etc etc.
In general international student fees are about 2 or 3 x the fees of residents / citizens. Expensive, yes.
Whereas if you do a PhD on the other hand then you tend to pick up a scholarship to pay fees and a living stipend.
I guess that is what is hard about changing fields...
Med school in Australia works out a little differently. They have this test. GMAT ??? Something like that. Basically you have to study for it and there is a cut off score. Med school is pretty competitive everywhere to the best of my knowledge.
Now... In NZ and Australia (don't know how it is in the UK and Canada) medicine is the only route to psychiatry. I have heard (from my p-doc as a matter of fact) that in the US there is another route.
I don't know what exactly that is...
How hard it is to get into...
Or how expensive that is...
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