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Medicine🏥⚕️: UK🇬🇧 vs Australia 🇦🇺 vs India 🇮🇳

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  When deciding to study medicine, as a child raised in an Indian background, I always only had 3 options or countries in my mind which were either the UK, Australia, or India. Although staying in India to medicine would be the straightforward answer, I always had the curiosity and wanted to know more about the medical journey overseas. So let’s look at the medical journey in these countries and hopefully find out which is the best option.  United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Pre-requisites Year 11 (Age: 15-16)  Good GCSEs grades Volunteering(for 6 to 12 months to gain people interactions)- portfolio Year 12 (Age 16-17) A-levels(at least 3 A grades)  Work experience( medicine-related eg. Job shadowing doctors)- portfolio Super-curricular( biology olympiads, workshops, talks)- portfolio Year 13 (Age 17-18) To get admission into a medical course under one of the universities, aspirants need to either take up UCAT or BMAT, depending on the universities. But as of 2024, it is best is ta...

Anguish🥲, Despair😫, Insecure🫡, Cheated🤡. Life of an 2024 NEET aspirant😭

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  From feeling proud and esteemed about taking the NEET exam in 2024 & becoming a doctor in the future to feeling cheated of our hard work, in despair, and insecurity about what will happen to our future based on the decision by the Supreme Court on 8th July.  What mistake did the students make to deserve this much heartbreak, this education system and the extreme level of corruption have made a joke out of the lives of hundreds of thousands of NEET aspirants. Their only dream was to get an MBBS admission into a government medical college through merit. It has been 2 months since the completion of the exam and still, we are all waiting for the announcement for the start of counselling.  As a 2024 NEET aspirant what have we been put through, NEET 2024 Timeline May 5th   Exam Day May 6th  There are rumors of paper leaks in Northern India like in Bihar, Gujarat, and Jharkhand which were identified through the telegram videos that went viral on the internet...