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- My name's Sanjay,
I'm a third year undergraduate student
doing the double degree medicine program
at the University of Sydney.
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Medicine for me,
was never really something that I had a clear idea of,
for a long time, until I really gone to high school.
I think for me it was a combination of experiences
in which I volunteered a lot,
met a lot of great people along the way
at different places and from different walks of life,
and also kind of engaging with my passion for science
by doing a lot chemistry, and physics,
and realizing that some of the skills
that you could take away from the sciences
could be applied to helping people.
And so I thought,
"wow, could I find a career as fulfilling as that?".
Something that could blend together
the idea of helping people,
as well as using my science kind of skills and interests.
And so medicine really kind of
naturally came to the forefront,
as finally as the answer for what I was looking for.
So specifically why I choose Sydney
was because it was a fantastic campus.
The first time I walked in, I was blown away.
In the interview period, when we kind of were shown around,
buildings, and the lawns, and the campus in general,
I was absolutely blown away.
I guess the second reason as to why I wanted to do
medicine at Sydney was because it had this feeling of
general connectedness between it's peers.
I could see that the medical students
when they interacted with each other was so great.
They had all these little fun kind of vibes,
and fun little kind of interactions
that I think that I wanted to kind of mimic
when I spent my time here at Sydney.
So medical students right now
that are currently sitting the MD program
do a four year degree where they will initially learn
some of the foundational units or skills required to
practice in medicine in years one and two.
So they'll do a lot of lecture based content,
a lot of practical content,
and learn from some of the greatest minds at Sydney Uni.
And so from there onwards,
they would do years three and four
where they would start to transition
to a clinical environment.
So in terms of kind of the clinical exposure,
in year one, you'll spend one day at a clinical school
and three days of learning on campus
where you'll kind of cover eight systems of the body,
so that might be divided in blocks like
cardiovascular sciences, urology, gastrology,
a few of those types of systems.
And so from there, in year two what happens is
you'll be spending a lot more time
in that clinical environment.
So you'll be spending about 50% of your time
kind of in that clinical school that you've chosen
or that's chosen for you.
And so, from that you also got a few more blocks
to kind of continue on,
a brief refresher course if you will, in year two
where you kind of go back through the basics
that you've learned in year one.
And so I guess there's another emphasis
with the new structure,
in that you learn about a theme or a skill
that you develop in one year
and you build upon that in subsequent years.
And so the emphasis for years three and four,
is that you're trying to transition
into that clinical environment just like before but
with that new emphasis on personalizing your own pathway.
And so what I really mean by that is
you get to choose your own MD research project,
where it happens, what you wanna do,
what you wanna specialize in.
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Well, this is Wesley College.
It's a place where I've been staying
for the last three years.
It's a residential college on Sydney Uni campus
and it's really great to kind of meet new people inside,
it's really great for kind of all sorts
of extracurricular activities.
So I spend a lot of my time here.
Every week, I kind of you know,
meeting with new people and trying new things,
and it's been a blast.
There's generally a lot of
inter-college kind of competitions that do happen
so we fight against-- well not fight against but
we compete against different colleges
in different sports such as
cricket, or tennis, or soccer,
or different kind of extracurricular cultural events so,
singing, debating, public speaking, come to mind.
So I've been involved in a whole range of stuff
at the college.
And I've definitely enjoyed every aspect of it.
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So far at Sydney University,
there's been a lot of experiences and a lot of opportunities
to kind of get involved, meet new people,
and have a good time.
So there's definitely a lot of opportunities in terms of
initiation week or O week as they would like to call it,
and there's definitely opportunities throughout the year
as well to really bond with your fellow medical students.
So I know with the medical program here,
there's a really good comradery between the students here
and that's definitely one of the reasons that drew me
to Sydney in the first place.
And I think they really do that
with a good variety of different societies that they have.
So the Sydney Uni has a medical society,
that runs a lot of different events such as
seminars, night events, conferences,
different types of parties as you will,
for people to kind of get to know each other better
and begin some life long friendships.
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Welcome to the graffiti tunnels.
So it's not what you're traditionally expect of a uni right?
But I guess what we consider it to be
is a really big cultural icon of Sydney University.
It all really started in the Vietnam War
when students from the University of Sydney
began to protest publicly
and demonstrate their protests all around this tunnel.
Since then, it's been the heart of kind of
iconic, cultural landmarks.
As you can see around you,
and it's definitely a place for freedom of self expression
which anyone can participate in.
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So if you're sitting on the fence,
wondering if you should do medicine,
where you should do medicine,
I believe a medical degree at Sydney Uni
can offer you that opportunity to really expand
some of the scientific knowledge
that you might be looking for,
it can really give you opportunities to help people
that you may have never envisioned of helping before,
and it really gives you that sense
that you're contributing to something
that is greater than yourself.
And I think that if you wanna live
a satisfying and fulfilling career,
one that combines these interests,
then I think a medical degree at Sydney will help out.
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