This month Sofiya Fateeva, an incoming third year international student sits down with two recent Deakin grads Dr Melissa Ho and Dr Geo Zhou to talk about what life has been like as an international medical student at Deakin:

🎓  Dealing with failure, burnout and homesickness

🌎  Making friends and finding your people

💵  Job opportunities, intern applications and training programs as an international student

🩺  How to get the most out of your degree and seek out helpful feedback

🐨  Cultural and language differences studying in Australia (and trying to understand the Aussie sense of humour!)

✔️  Support available from the clinical schools and Deakin for international students

💉 The impact of the pandemic on their studies