I wish I had someone like you as a tutor or even mentor during high schooling years. I really admire and respect your commitment to not only helping students, but also caring for your employees. Having sucha idealistic and empathetic perspective for your employees is commendable. There are small bussinesses that start off like you with passion and genuine empathy for others but are forced to either sell there soul to stay afloat and make money or give up and go back to being an employee. I don’t blame both sides, as I can understand where’s there coming from. But, to what extent should we be giving up our identity is the question, a personal one at least.Your ideals, morals and honour mattered to you more than money and you stuck with that even though you were financially and physically burdening yourself. But, in the end you got rewarded with the perfect profession for you cause you stuck with it and as they the harder he battle the sweeter the victory. I’m really happy for you, and I would rather have people like you get into medicine. I would sacrifice my dream of getting in so that people like you can get in. Not having an incentive to study in high school definitely bites you later down the line when you want to have a career. A career you’re passionate about but are held back because of bad decisions.One can easily choose not to learn and give up on suffering when solving problems in high school, but one cannot give up on the suffering associated with negative consequences of bad decisions. We are forced to grow in life, but aren’t forced to think. My soul isn’t as pure as yours, as sometimes I do look at others on the money grind and think of giving in. I’m pretty much living your 2012 days but don’t have something where I look upto everyday like you had for tutoring. I would probably loce to do it, but lack of study in high school years makes that an impossibility. I started out giving you positive energy and ended with giving you negative energy. So in that case you deserve being a doctor and I admire your journey and I am looking forward to carving out mine when I can get that slightest glimpse of spark and fire within me for what i do in life. It isn’t pursuing happiness that makes us happy but the happiness of pursuit itself.All the best. You will make a fine doctor.

Heyo Jesse, random recommendation but you should read “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” by Robert Persig. It’s a combination of philosophy, a road trip, motorcycles and so much more. It just popped in my mind since you mentioned motorcycles!

You are a good person!

SWOT at MUHI is indeed still thriving, it's my second year in the bio team and it's so cool to know that you were integral to it!

@jesseosbourne

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic to hear and great to see you’re involved (the bio team was always the best one! Haha). Hopefully it’ll be in person revision lectures and masterclasses again this year. Nothing beats that experience!

Inspiring stuff!

You have perfectly expressed one of the reasons I’m also pursuing medicine! I briefly worked as an exercise physiologist in private practice and I hated directly charging my patients - I always felt much better when I knew my patients were bulk billed/on the NDIS. I’m currently working in a similar role for a university program for disabled students and it is such a great relief knowing my income is not tied to what the students are paying ($5/week afaik) for my services. While I understand that someone (the taxpayer) is still footing the bill, I know I’ll feel a lot better as a doctor knowing my patients can access any of my services no matter their income/SES. Thank you for your honesty and openness in sharing your story and motivations behind pursuing medicine, as well as for all the work you’ve put into your GAMSAT content. I’m pretty sure without it, I’d be looking at a resit or feeling a lot less confident about scoring an interview this year!

@jesseosbourne

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think overall it's a far better system to have the burden of healthcare and health services distributed and equally accessed than a wholly tiered system. It also gives way for programs exactly like the one you've mentioned to be feasible to operate. Thanks Amelia, here's hoping interviews are on the way for us both in a few months! :)

Great vid Jesse! Seems like the perfect career transition for you. If it's okay to ask, I was wondering you went in the Casper test?

@jesseosbourne

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so! Yeah sure, I scored in the top quartile so I was very pleasantly surprised :)

Hi Jesse! Amazing video! Your story is really inspiring for me especially as a first year. Do you have any tips for people like me in first year trying to get the GAMSAT right? PS: I also do a lot of tutoring and I definitely relate to what you said about being able to go on a journey with your student and really teach them the way they learn the best!

@jesseosbourne

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Parteek, I think if it's your first GAMSAT and you have the opportunity to sit again in future years, you're best off not investing time and effort too heavily yet into GAMSAT so that your first experience will give you a good indication of where you sit. There's a lot of good advice floating around now on the r/GAMSAT subreddit and here on KZread that definitely helps with people going into their first sitting more prepared than in previous years, but how each person responds to the many different elements of GAMSAT will still vary and isn't entirely predictable as an observer. The reality is that you probably won't 'get it right' in terms of a competitive score on the first go. I hope that you do, but there's a lot to be learned from your own experience and response to a real sitting that will probably be of greater value to you than any general advice I can provide here. My advice to how to prepare would be the same regardless of what year of your degree you're in. Prepare for GAMSAT consistently and routinely, always reflect on whether you understand that question or could apply the same reasoning or learning to analogous situations, write frequently, and embrace failures and problems along the way :)