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HI there,

I havent been checking my group digests for awhile there. So I missed

the call to re-introduce ourselves. I dont mean to tack onto Yehuda's

great post, but I will give a brief intro here.

 

I am a fairly recent graduate of , and studied through

RMIT University in Melbourne and interned in Nanjing for a year. Prior

to studying I had an applied Science qualification in

western herbal medicine and health science.

At the moment I am practicing part time with my partner, as we have

two small children, so I am not in the clinic that much. We are in

Victoria, in Australia, which is the first state to have a government

registration board for practitioners. (The rest of

Australia it is still a self governing industry, with the government and

the tax office basically requiring people to be members of private

national associations, which have varying levels of qualifications

required.)

The reason that I havent been up to date with all the digests lately is

that I have spent the last year studying for the GAMSAT (which is

Australia's version of the MCAT) as I would like to apply for graduate

Medicine. (4 years for an MBBS, shorter than getting a Chinese

Medicine qualification!) I sat the exam in March and am still waiting for

the results. This is because the course I graduated from was designed

to be in line with qualifications recieved from China (in fact, I think

RMIT actually delivers a course in Hong Kong, as well.) So it was very

western medicine / health science intensive. It has been criticized by

other practitioners that we spend 5 years studying only to NOT become

an MD, at the risk of not having a very strong classical background.

And whilst I love , I would really like to be a primary

health care practitioner, with an increased scope of practice. (I would

also like to be able to live and work in a rural area and actually be able

to support my family. Not to mention do my bit for the shocking state

of rural western health care in this country.) I have a long term goal of

practicing more Integrative medicine and being able to advocate for

from a position of strength within the system, and

hopefully do what I can to elevate it to the position of being a true Allied

Health discipline in this country, able to work through our existing

health care system. (I also have a pet project of changing some of the

existing attitudes in the health care system to the so-called " need " for

evidence based medicine, but one step at a time.) Fingers crossed for

me!

Regards,

Lea Starck.

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