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- Hi, my name's Ewen Bashardi and I'm studying here at UNSW.
I'm currently undertaking the Bachelor of Medical Studies,
Doctor of Medicine degree, and
I've just finished my second year.
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- Okay so right now we're here
at the Biomedical Sciences Building.
So it's right next to
(clicking) our main medical building.
We do our anatomy and physiology labs and pracs in here.
So most days we're split between either
this building or that building.
So we'll have a couple of hours of lessons here,
and in anatomy lab look at different parts of the bodies,
the organs, and just visualize what we learn
in our lecture contents but in real life, on real humans.
We've been lucky enough to have
them actually donated to us to look at.
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So I'm currently studying the Bachelor of Medical Studies,
and Doctor of Medicine at UNSW.
So it's a six-year degree, and one of the better things
about the degree is that it's an undergraduate degree.
Which means that straight out of high school
you can enter the degree, and you don't have
to do another year degree like traditional
postgraduate medical courses.
So one of the really good advantages
about UNSW Medicine is that because it's undergraduate
you're, from the beginning, exposed to medical concepts.
From year one you're inside hospitals once a fortnight,
interacting with patients, building
those interpersonal skills that are so important
to succeed as a doctor.
UNSW is also really unique amongst undergraduate courses,
in that it offers a compulsory research year.
So our fourth year is called
our independent learning project, or ILP year.
And basically for that entire year
you build your own research project,
and under the help of a supervisor,
or another doctor, you actually research a topic,
which is really, really big advantage
to other medical schools that don't offer it.
It also means that once you graduate
you've already started publishing research,
which is really good for specialties in the future.
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So the UNSW Medical Course is split up into three phases,
with the first phase being your first two years focusing
on a preclinical level.
Third and fourth year are transitions,
and your fifth and sixth year are pure clinicals.
You're in a hospital five days a week,
and it's really about transitioning you
from being a medical student to being a doctor.
Once you graduate as a doctor
there are so many different possibilities
and options to pursue.
It really becomes what's your passion and what you wanna do.
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So we're here at the main university food court.
It's called the Quad.
So this is a really cool spot for people to come socialize,
eat food in between classes and after lectures.
There's nice greenery around here.
There's wonderful cafes and book shops.
It's a nice central zone that connects most parts
of the uni together.
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It can be really daunting for people
when they first start at university.
It's a new place, they don't know many people.
But I feel like the UNSW Med course actually has a lot
of things in place to help bring connectivity
amongst all students, and help
you meet a lot of new people.
So from the get-go in first year,
we have a med camp in the beginning of the year,
which is a three-day weekend away.
You spend it with the entire year, and you do all
these activities and team building
and friendship forming activities.
And this really, really helps you form a close group
of friends that could foreseeably last well
into the future, lifelong friends if you will.
So on top of med camp there are a huge number
of opportunities to immerse yourself in university life.
There's a large number of societies that anyone can join.
As well as specific medical societies
for just about every single specialty available
to help you gain better insight
into what the future's gonna be like.
University of UNSW really offers
so many different opportunities,
an opportunity for everyone, basically.
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Okay so we're currently inside one of the main lecture halls
that is involved with the medical faculty.
So we have lectures on most mornings.
So four days a week we'll have two lectures
in the morning from nine to 11.
So we're pretty exposed to being in here.
There's a lot of seats because there are a lot
of people in the course, but also there's a lot
of sound equipment and recording that allows people
to watch the videos from home and to rewatch
it at later times in the future.
So if you think medicine is a topic for you,
well congratulations first of all.
UNSW Medicine is a really, (clicking)
really rewarding place to study medicine,
and it's one of the best educations
you can receive for medicine in Australia.
The advice I'd give to you is: really prioritize
your studying and work ethic to make sure that
you can get in as well as survive inside the medical course.
Strong emphasis on the UCAT and HSC, but also
it's really, really important to make sure that
your people skills are up there, it's for the interview.
So the way the course entry works is that there is 33%
of the entry is focused on your high school marks,
33% on your UCAT, and then 33% on your interview.
So making sure that your are still a good person
and not just a robot is really, really important,
because that's what we look for, we look for people
who'll be really good doctors in the future.
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UNSW Medicine is a really, really enjoyable thing.
I would consider it to be probably one
of funnest things I've done.
It's really interesting to be in a course
where studying doesn't become such a big burden,
and you're really passionately enjoying things.
So if that sounds like something that would be the case
for you, I'd really recommend to any future
or potential students to consider UNSW Medicine
because it's definitely a great time,
and we're all like family here.
Everyone really knows each other really well,
and it's a really good community to be part of,
and it's one I'm really proud to be part of.
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