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by llamaz 3544 days ago
My sister is a doctor. In Australia at least, they generally don't bother with interviews or resumes. Right out of university they write down preferences for where they would like to work, and based on their grades they are assigned a position. After that, when moving from one stage of training to another (e.g. resident to registrar or registrar to GP/speciality) they take another test and they are given a position based on their grades on the test. It's like university, but extended to the rest of your life.

Also, in Australia there is the option to do medicine as a 6 year undergraduate degree, which ends up being a very relaxed and easy going degree. Residency and registrar is a 9 to 5 job, where as a registrar you have a six figure salary.

Of course we also have the 4 year long post graduate medicine degree, which would be much harder of course.