Medicine, Patrick Mackerras

Title: Medicine

Writer: Patrick Mackerras

Publisher: AGPS
Edition: 1996
Pages: 137
Dimension: 25x 17,5x 1cm
Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale

Price: Rp.
Call No.: 61/Mac/M/C.1
Status: Available


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PATRICK MACKERRAS is a third year Bachelor of Science student at the Australian National University, and in 1995 was a Distinguished Scholar in Science at the John Curtin School of Medical Research. This association, together with his longstanding interest in medicine, has led Patrick to reseach and write this guide 'from a student's perspective'.

So you want to be a doctor.

But have you really thought about medicine as a life time's career rather than a university course? Many students are so preoccupied with 'getting into medicine' that they do not consider whether they will actually enjoy the demanding, rewarding, frustrating life of a doctor-let alone the astonishing commitment required to get there. Medicine combines interviews with medical students, academic and doctor across Australia with up-to-date infomation on the types of medical education to be offered from 1977 and what to expect after the degree is completed.

A doctor's social prestige, financial rewards, escape from paperwork-these and other popular myths are quickly debunked by the medical students and doctor interviewed. Their frank views on everything from their social lives to their career prospects provide a unique insight on life in the medical community.

This is an excellent book. It is based on interviews which have enabled the opinions of many relevant people to be in corporated.

Entry into medicine is a vital life decision for any person and this book will enable that decision to be taken with  more knowledge and more understanding than is available at present. The book is one That should be read by every intending entrant into medicine.

Professor Peter Baume

PROFESSOR OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

CHANCELLOR, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY