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Originally Posted by Pantgirl  I wa sin the same boat re the hard course thing. I couldnt get a summer job etc as I HAD no summer due to having to do FREE EMS (Extra Mural Studies) placements at places I had to find myself. 52 weeks in total I think over 5 years and also some term weeks interspersed that owing to Hospital care and Equine rotations staring whenever. I'm also lumped with more debt as my course was 5 years as well. Im getting paid pennies (over 10k less) compared to the salaries the new grad Doctors will be getting paid, they just have to deal with it for one year and then they're fine |
I'm not saying that they shouldn't have to deal with the same money problems as everyone else, but everyone else was expecting this kind of thing. With most other salary-related issues people are given fair warning especially if it's going to have a severe impact upon their finances and it's usually handled a little better.
Personally, I'm just sick of the whole 'compulsory debt' thing that all students end up with and hate it when high-up people decide to make it worse for some instead of improving the lot of others with the money they're currently wasting on other things.
