I am planning to apply for b mid to study starting next year and am currently lookin at acu and I'm just wondering what is it like?
What is the schedule like? I have 2 at the moment and plan on having another probably next year or at the beginning of 2012 (as in the baby being born then not getting preg then) my boys have just started 1 day a week childcare and love it and I was planning on applying for griffith which is external study so would have done a second day of childcare and studied at home on that day and been able to have bubs with me and put him/her in chldcare when they are a bit older. Its looking like my rank probably wont be high enough to get in, depending what happens next year with the cut off rank. So what is it like? how many days/ what kind of hours etc am I going to be looking at and how does it work with clinical placements?
Im in my 2nd semester 1st yr at ACU doing BMid!
1st semester was pretty boring to be honest!
You get to choose your classes - so 1st in best dressed! so u basically get to pick ur timetable - they will give u the list of classes and u work it out to try and suit you! also the lecutres are recorded so you can watch them from home if you want!
2nd Semester! am absoloutly loving it! however is very full on!
We start prac in October (which i think is actually a pretty good idea, although im a hands on learning person, i think we will benefit alot from actually having some theory based knowledge behind us IFYKWIM) its 3 wks monday-friday (whatever hours the hospital agrees on) and than an extra 5 days you need to make up (they have made sure nothing is on wednesdays for us so we can use this day to make up the 5days)
I have survived doing it with 1 toddler and another 1 on the way! heaps of girls have kids of all different ages etc.... alot of us are actually mothers! so im sure you will be fine! if you get in with a great group who knows u might be able to organise childminding together or something!
Thanks so much for your reply! I am dying to do ther course but just figuring out how to make it work without having to put the kids in more childcare then i want to...especially when they have only just started doing 1 day a week about 2months ago! and that was HUGE for us to do!
So can you actually choose to watch them online if you have to? or is that only a back up and you get part of your mark for attendance?
I realised I didnt explain myself properly earlier...I have a high enough gpa for acu but I was told a couple of months ago my gpa worked out to a higher rank then it actually does, so i was told my rank was 94 and griffiths cut off this year was 900 but actually my rank is 84 so unless i do the stat test and get my rank up (apparently the highest you can get is 88) and the cut off rank drops, I won't be able to get into griffith. So griffith was easy because the course is external so now i need to work out if acu can work.
So what was the timetable like for term 1? are you able to kind of have one or 2 full days at uni rather than a couple of hours over 5 days? When I was at uni in 2004 it was an hour here, two there over most days of the week, but that was a bachelor or arts so everyone doing very different subjects not a ctructured progrm like midwifery.
The prac I can organise cause its for short spurts so thats fine, its more the every week how many days at uni etc that I'm more worried about
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