What they don't tell you about medical school in Auckland New Zealand

 

 
 
 
 
 
People don't know about medical school. Even the people who are IN medical school. And it doesn't make sense if you apply for something, and yet you don't know much about it. ESPECIALLY if it is going to shape a large part of your life.

I explain different phases of medical school in New Zealand.

After biomed and health science first year (premed), then you enter medical school proper as a 2nd year university student. (MBChB II), in MBChB II and III, you are a pre-clinical student. You are trying to cover the basic sciences required for practising medicine. This includes things like physiology (how the body works), pathology (how diseases develop), and anatomy (structure of the human body). You will also have some clinical contact with the hospital environment.

From MBChB IV (4th year university) then you start clinical runs (placements) and your time is spent mainly at the hospital. This requires a shift in your learning habits and requires you to be more independent and self-directed.

Core placements include: General medicine, psychiatry, Family medicine, geriatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, ENT. You will get opporunity to choose different runs throughout medical schools outside this core list.

During the final year (6th year university), which is called the TI (Trainee Intern) year, you are expected to help look after about one-third of the patient workload under supervision of doctors. 
The elective is an 8 week placement that you can spend overseas as long as you are accepted