HOW A FOREIGN PERSON TO BECOME A DOCTOR IN AUSTRALIA/LEARN 20 IDIOMS WITH TIME
The exciting and rewarding medicine takes you nearly a decade after high school to become a doctor in Australia. Only medical schools accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) is authorized to perform medical education. These 18 school have differed in annual entry requirements. Undergraduate Entry is more suited for school-leavers as you can apply for it directly from high school. Its typical duration is 6 years. It will consider applicants’ Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) and Undergraduate Medical Admissions Test (UMAT) score. Graduate Entry needs a current Bachelor’s degree to draw a wider range of entrants from diverse academic backgrounds. Its typical duration is 4 years.
A Undergraduate Medicine and health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) score is required to apply for undergraduate admission to ten of these eighteens. This test is divided into 3 sections – empathy, visual spatial skills and problem solving skills. The abilities considered important to the study and later practice of medicine involve critical thinking, problem solving, understanding people and abstract non-verbal reasoning. Prospective applicants to these programs must take the Graduate Australian Medical School Admission test (GAMSAT). The GAMSAT will assess your ability to understand and analyze written and graphically presented material. It measures skills and knowledge acquired over a long period of time, as well as test your ability to reason, make logical deductions and form judgements. This test is held every year in March and declared in June.
If you are applying for a five or six-year undergraduate medical program, an interview with the medical school can be usually part of the selection process. Applying for a four-year graduate entry medical degree, you will need to have completed a bachelor degree. Keep in mind that some graduate programs require completion of first year subjects in Anatomy, Physiology and/or Biochemistry. All Australian medical graduates must complete 1 year of internship in a public hospital before they can obtain full medical registration. During the final year of medical school, med students can choose their preferred hospital in which they would like to do their internship. Without government subsidy a full-fee student has to pay at least A$51,0000 per year for a four-year graduate medical program.
The physician who has graduated from a medical school outside Australiabe can be licensed in Australia. They must apply to the Australian Medical Council (AMC) to arrange an appropriate assessment pathway.Their medical school of graduation is one listed in the International Medical Education Directory (IMED) as accredited by the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research or the World Health Organization.
LEARN 20 IDIOMS WITH TIME
1. DO TIME / SERVE TIME
Serve sentence in prison
The local media broke the news that he has done time for seventeen years for the crime not committed by him.
2. DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO WIND A WATCH OR BARK AT THE MOON
Not to know what to do
She has asked me to leave or stay back; but I don’t know whether to wind a watch or bark at the moon.
3. ELEVENTH HOUR
Happening at the very last minute
He was thought to be going to lose owing to a tire change ; but at the eleventh hour he came first and won the race.
4. CRUNCH TIME
Dealing with a decisive moment
It’s a crunch time for him with beads of sweat on his forehead to make a speech for resignation.
5. CARRY THE DAY
Winning after an ordeal
Carrying the day, he didn’t rejoice as an award recipient.
6. TIME FLIES
Passing very quickly
It’s time to leave for home; and time flies in having a lot of fun.
7. AROUND THE CLOCK
Working 24 hours a day
This hotel always has someone available to help you aound the rock.
8. BEHIND THE TIMES
Being old-fashioned or outdated
Really being behind the times, they didn’t understand their son’s point of view.
9. AHEAD OF TIME
Taking place before the set time
Making the cakes ahead of time helped her better focus on garnishment.
10. CALL IT A DAY / NIGHT
Stop for a while at least until the following day
It’s time for you to call it a day after really hard work.
11. A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
A very long period of time
It has been a month of Sundays since she left the country.
12. DWELL ON THE PAST
Think too much about the past
You are wished to stop dwelling on the past because she’s never come back.
13. AGAINST THE CLOCK
Have very little time to do something
It might be ungrateful of you to say so as I have been against the clock to get this done.
14. CALL TIME
Decide not to do it anymore
They had to call time on this project because of resources drain, exhausted manpower and huge expense.
15. AFTER THE WATERSHED
Getting the TV programme started with adult humor, bad language or controversial subjects
Children should go to bed because it’s after the watershed.
16. JUST IN TIME / IN THE NICK OF TIME
Finish before it’s too late
Arriving just in the nick of time makes him not to miss the first baby’s birth party.
17. ON TIME
Arrive at the expected time
It’s so annoying that the trains here have never been on time.
18. SAVE TIME
Do quickly to allow time for other things
We’ll save time if we drive instead of taking the bus.
19. OUT OF TIME
No time left to do something
They’re out of time in answering the last question of the test.
20. AS TIME GOES BY
As time moves on or goes by
She has become less interested in partying as time has gone by
