your degree, your journey, start your video adventure

Welcome to the DPM Medical Student Video Library. Here you can explore our collection of educational resources about key things you need to know to get you through medical school.

Ready. Set. Play. Take control of your journey and use the interactive tags throughout the videos to choose your own adventure and navigate to the topics you're interested in.

 

Salary packaging

Salary packaging is an arrangement between you and your employer that enables you to reduce your taxable salary, and as a result, pay less income tax.

Salary packaging tips

There are some things you will need to keep in mind, which includes different rules for different hospitals, timing and tax savings. 

Set some goals

Taking some time now to set personal and career goals allows you to make little steps along the way, that will make them more achievable and ensure you stay on track to reach them.

Tax planning

As a busy medical student, it’s not hard to feel like the last thing you want to dedicate time to do your tax return. However, now is the time to get prepared and understand what is required.

Medical Internship Tips with Dr Jordan Walter

DPM Tax Consultant, Anthony Dickinson, sits down with Medical Intern Dr Jordan Walter to go over her experience as a first year doctor. Starting a medical internship is a massive adjustment with a global pandemic making things get even more complex!

Rural Medical Internship Tips with Dr Ted Elkington

Anthony Dickinson, Tax Consultant at DPM, talks to Medical Intern Dr Ted Elkington about his experience as a first year doctor in a rural hospital on the border of Victoria/New South Wales during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Mentor night

Each year, DPM hosts a mentor night and invites medical professionals at different stages in their career to form a panel where they share their experiences and advice

Getting on to a training program

Hear our Mentor Night Panelists discuss what you need to look out for when applying for training programs.

Handling pressure 

How to overcome feelings of inadequacy and what to do when you feel overwhelmed in your doctor in training years

Videos By Med Students

Saving Money as a Student

After relocating to Australia from her hometown in Canada @emmab_md started documenting her experiences as a medical student on YouTube, check out her most recent video she made for The Hub.

Going rural as a medical student in Australia

@thetessfilesblog is a physiotherapist turned medical student in the rural town of Dubbo, New South Wales. Tess documents her experiences as a rural medical student across her Instagram and YouTube, Check out her most recent video she made for The Hub.

🔭  Life beyond medical school

Whilst starting your career in medicine may seem like a while away, the reality is in just a few short years, you’ll be working as a doctor in training in the hospital system with the added pressures that can come with working full time.

Taking some time now to set personal and career goals allows you to make little steps along the way. This will help make them more achievable and ensure you stay on track to reach them. 

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