title. UA does not publish any conversion table, so would like to know this. Thanks!
Update: this is for med school application.
So my engineer co-worker wanted to apply to med, couldn't post on his account so ask me to post his experience-anonymized for privacy.
Targeting AB/BC
Full-time employment
Experience/hobbies/volunteering/etc.
Stats
It seems he is very lacking in actual volunteering since he is working full-time, especially healthcare-related.....how is this viewed by adcoms? Does 1 more experience in a clinical exp move the needle for this app?
Thanks in advance!
I checked out both programs, despite being both a 2-year diploma, there is a big difference in total costs: NAIT(25,605.36 CAD) vs SAIT($15,349), NAIT costs more than $10k!!!
Can you explain the huge difference in costs?
I also heard NAIT includes a mandatory co-op and much better job market for grads in Edmonton than Calgary? Is this true?
Plus I have a previous bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, how easy is it for each school to transfer course credits to this program?
guys listen, i know Aus may be a easy route, but there is no free lunch under the sun...you are facing the following obstacles:
1.advancing in your career, after graduation you are required to do at least 1 year of internship, 2-3 years of house officer, and many years of unaccredited trainee before potentially getting on training, which is our residency program. Here is the kicker, there is absolutely to fixed timing on getting into anything remotely competitive, some local Aus grads spend more than a decade before getting on a specialty, some don't get in at all and stay as a junior doctor. Also the residency program sometimes take longer than ours due to low volume/low population. Absolutely forget about optho, ent, neuro, ortho, cardiosx, derm-you don't have a chance. For the others, you will be 40 before you know it and still struggling to get on training!
3.Wildlife, your intern and junior officer years will mostly likely be spent in rural areas due to high saturation in metro areas, which are given to local grads. You will be seeing scary and venomous snakes on a daily basis, in your home/in your toilet/under the sink, on the lawn, on the walkway. If you are most people who are afraid of snakes, you are fuckkked! You can't go golfing(snakes), you can't hike(snakes), you can't do shit! Not to mention the other million things that could get you like huge spiders, scorpions, reptiles, bugs, etc. Nobody mentions this!
4.Racism, mark my words, Australia is way more racist than Canada if you are a visible minority. People are not woke at all! They are on par if not more racist than red state Americans in general. Think about not only daily encounter with patients, but also social interactions, getting a gf(white or not), getting promotion in your career, so on. Canadians are less racist and less confrontational, but way more passive-aggresive in my experience.
Teenagers, they are rude as fuckk. Check this shit out. they dunk shit on people walking in the mall, fuck with people driving, walking on the road, punch ppl out of the blue. They are like a legal glitch in their society. Think about your avg. broccoli head youtube prankster x 1 million. They are wild.
Pay. Pay is not higher or lower than Canada some think. It is genuinely a myth, depending on individual circumstances, business acumen, luck. They are still lower than US, though. No clear statement either way. One thing for sure is that during the years between graduation and getting on training, the pay is period strictly less than Canada, because during these years you would already be a resident in Canada, therefore becoming a attending 5+ years earlier. That's definitely more than $1M in net differences.
There are more. I am busy now and will add more.