Doctor of Medicine (NSW)
School of Medicine
Are you curious about medical research or clinical practice? The Doctor of Medicine of The University of Notre Dame Australia is a four-year postgraduate degree accredited by the Medical Board of Australia on the recommendation of the Australian Medical Council. You will undertake clinical placements in the third and fourth year in various settings, including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals, general practice, and community-based services in urban and rural areas across Australia. Extend your medical career today.
Program information for 2025:
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Why study this degree?
As the only medical program offered by a Catholic university in Australia, the Doctor of Medicine aims to develop and train caring and ethical doctors imbued with the values of compassion, respect, and service. All students at Notre Dame undertake a Core Curriculum component of the study that involves an exploration of bioethics in the first year of the program.
The first and second years of your studies provide a solid foundation for your medical degree. You will have the opportunity to undertake problem-based learning tutorials conducted by medically-qualified tutors, clinical and communication skills sessions, workshops, clinical debriefing tutorials and site visits. In the second year, you will begin to work on a research-based or professionally-focused project on one of 10 themes: Clinical Science, Bioethics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Rural Medicine or Medical Leadership and Health Policy.
In the third year, you will undertake a series of clinical placements in in hospitals and community settings where you will engage with patients, their families and the healthcare professionals caring for them. This strong focus on experiential learning is further complemented by a series of weekly 'Back-to-Base Days', in which you will return to your principal Clinical School for short case tutorials, grand rounds, journal club sessions and expert guest lectures.
Your fourth and final year will see you complete further clinical placements. You will explore a range of disciplines in a range of health settings and present your project for examination in the Applied Research Project course of study. Following the fourth-year end-of-year examinations, you will commence a four-week elective learning period where you can extend your medical knowledge in an area of personal interest.
Essential elements of our Medical postgraduate degree include:
- Access to innovative clinical skills training
- Learning from clinical academics who are experts in their fields
- Aboriginal health, rural and remote placements
- A problem-based learning curriculum delivered in small groups in years one and two
- Clinical placements in both the public and private sector hospitals in years three and four
- A liberal arts education in bioethics
- Applied research project in an area of interest to you
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Program summary
Year One
- Foundations of a Medical Vocation
Year Two
- Foundations of Clinical Practice
Year Three
- Clinical Apprenticeships/ Clinical Apprenticeships in a Rural Setting
- Systematic Research Inquiry
Year Four
- Preparing for Internship
Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.
More information regarding courses can be found at the course descriptions page.
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Entry requirements
Admission to the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program is currently only available to Australian citizens, Australian permanent humanitarian visa holders, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens.
In 2024, up to 60 full-fee places are available for international students (please see the section below for entry requirements). Domestic applicants will be selected for admission based on the following criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree (recognised by the Australian Qualifications Framework or the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition Guide) within the last 10 years, or be in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
- Unweighted GAMSAT average score of 52 or greater and a minimum score of 50 in each section
- Overall Grade Point Average of 5.2 or higher
- Casper score from the online Situational Judgement Test (no minimum) (see key dates). For more information on Casper and how to register for the tests, refer directly to https://acuityinsights.app/
- The School of Medicine uses a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format: Since 2020 this has been delivered via a recorded online platform and an online platform delivery is continuing in 2024. There will be at least seven stations with a single interviewer/assessor per station. The interview will be recorded with the use of an online interviewing software tool, Modern Hire.
Applicants must also complete and submit a GEMSAS Online Application.
As a guide, applicants made offers for the Doctor of Medicine at Notre Dame Fremantle in 2024 intake had an average GPA and GAMSAT as shown in the table below.
Campus
Interview average
Place offer average
GPA
GAMSAT
GPA
GAMSAT
Fremantle
6.58
64.65
6.58
64.85
Please note that interview places also take into account other factors, including CASPER and bonus points. Place offers additionally take into account interview scores and are based on Round 1 offers only. Average GPA and GAMSAT scores do not include applicants who were considered on additional criteria including but not limited to, rurality, and facilitated interview pathway eligibility.
Please see the 2024 GEMSAS Admissions Guide for further details on admission requirements for the Doctor of Medicine.
Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training (KCRMT)
The KCRMT will host a new end to end (4 year) medical program for up to 26 students for commencing MD program in 2025. It is designed to increase access to the MD for students from rural communities and build a future medical workforce, particularly for the Broome/Kimberley/Pilbara regions, and provide the students with the opportunity to complete all their medical training in regional WA.
Applicants to the KCRMT Rural Training Scheme will be considered on their First Nations, equity and rural backgrounds and ranked according to a tiered priority system.
Tier 1: Applicants must be residents of the Broome, Kimberley, Pilbara regions for at least 5 years consecutively or 10 years cumulatively.
Tier 2: Applicants must meet one of the following two criteria:
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant from across Australia, or
- Must have resided for 5 years consecutively or 10 years cumulatively, or more, in rural or regional area and have resided for at least 10 years cumulatively in Western Australia.
Tier 3: Non-rural and / or non-Western Australian residents.
Applicants who meet the Tier 1 eligibility criteria will have the following admission requirements waived:
- A valid GAMSAT, and
- An undergraduate degree that must have been completed within the last 10 years.
All applications for Tier 1 MUST be submitted direct to The University of Notre Dame Australia.
Applicants meeting the eligibility criteria for Tier 1 who have a valid GAMSAT and meet the 10-year rule requirements can still apply via GEMSAS by indicating their interest in the Scheme in the application form.
Applicants for Tier 2 and Tier 3 must apply via GEMSAS and a valid GAMSAT, CASPER and meeting the 10-year rule is a requirement for these Tiers.
Please be aware the preference place for The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus may be taken into account when ranking applicants for interview and/or place offers for the Rural Training Scheme.
For further information on the KCRMT tiers and entry requirements, including application for Tier 1, please visit the Pathways to Medicine page.
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Learning outcomes
Clinical Practice: the medical graduate as practitioner
- Listen and respond effectively and acceptably to patients, their family/carers, doctors, and other health professionals.
- Elicit, and record legibly, an accurate, organised and problem-focussed medical history, including family and social occupational and lifestyle features, from the patient, and other sources.
- Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or an organ/system/problem-focussed examination, as indicated, and record the findings legibly and unambiguously.
- Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including relevant differential diagnoses.
- Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken, and evaluate their outcomes.
- Select and justify common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness.
- Interpret the results and confirm or modify clinical decisions and actions appropriately.
- Select, justify, and perform safely a defined range of procedures.
- Make clinical judgments and decisions based on the available evidence.
- Alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience, identify and justify relevant management options.
- Elicit patients’ questions and their views, concerns, and preferences, promote rapport, and ensure patients’ full understanding of their problem(s).
- Involve patients in decision-making and planning their treatment, including communicating risks and benefits of management options.
- Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, (and confirm their understanding) to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options.
- Undertake clinical practice which integrates prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic disease management wherever relevant.
- Prescribe medications safely, effectively, and economically, based on objective evidence.
- Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents.
- Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care and initiate that care.
- Perform common emergency and life support procedures safely, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR to an accepted standard.
- Care compassionately for patients at the end of life, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support, and other components of palliative care.
- Undertake care which places the safety of patients and their needs at its centre.
- Practise safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reporting and effective clinical handover.
- Retrieve, interpret and record information accurately and effectively in health data systems, and in conducting and reporting research (both paper and electronic).
Professionalism and Leadership: the medical graduate as a professional and a leader
- Provide care to all patients according to the guidelines: “Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia”.
- Behave in ways which demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy, and respect for all patients.
- Show integrity, honesty, leadership, initiative, professionalism and partnership to patients, the profession and society.
- Conduct clinical practice according to the principles of ethical practice.
- Communicate effectively about ethical issues with patients, family, and other healthcare professionals.
- Identify the risks posed to patients by the graduate’s own health.
- Mitigate the health risks of professional practice by taking effective action on factors that affect the graduate’s own personal health and wellbeing, including fatigue, stress management and infection control.
- Recognise their own health needs, and when to consult and follow the advice of a health professional.
- Practise in ways that demonstrate respect for the boundaries that define professional and therapeutic relationships.
- Identify and act appropriately on the options available when personal values or beliefs may influence patient care, including the obligation to refer to another practitioner.
- Respect the roles and expertise of other healthcare professionals.
- Learn and work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team.
- Self-evaluate their own professional practice through reflection and demonstrate lifelong learning behaviours.
- Demonstrate fundamental skills in educating colleagues.
- Recognise the limits of their own expertise and involve other professionals as needed to contribute to patient care.
- Fulfil the fundamental legal responsibilities of health professionals, especially those relating to ability to complete relevant certificates and documents, informed consent, duty of care to patients and colleagues, privacy, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and notification.
- Act ethically and openly where there may be financial and / or other conflicts of interest.
- Understand the specific issues associated with ethical practice associated with research, in particular with vulnerable and/or specific groups or minorities.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project according to established ethical principles and justify those principles.
Science and Scholarship: the medical graduate as scientist and scholar
- Justify clinical decisions and actions by reference to established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences.
- Justify decisions and actions in respect of individual patients, populations, and health systems by reference to core medical and scientific knowledge.
- Make diagnostic and management decisions based on accurate knowledge of the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history, and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life.
- Access, critically appraise, interpret, and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature to clinical decisions and actions, and in the practice of research.
- Formulate relevant research questions and select appropriate study designs based on knowledge of common scientific methods.
- Undertake evidence-based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge, striving to achieve a level of excellence.
- Summarise, document, report and reflect on the progress of a project in a team setting.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project under supervision with a degree of independence that shows self-reliance, the exercise of project planning skills, judgment, and flexibility.
Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate
- Protect and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and populations.
- Act on, and explain how issues such as health inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors, influence the health, illness, disease, and success of treatment of populations.
- Communicate effectively in wider roles including leadership, advocacy, teaching, assessing, appraising and research
- Act in ways which acknowledge the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of health and health experiences.
- Communicate effectively and in a culturally competent fashion with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain and justify common population health screening and prevention approaches, and the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring the health status of populations.
- Advocate for healthy lifestyle choices, based on explanations of environmental and lifestyle health risks.
- Implement a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care.
- Critically appraise the extent to which individual, community and national health needs are met by the existing roles and relationships between health agencies and services.
- Evaluate the extent to which the principles of efficient, equitable and sustainable allocation of finite resources are applied in meeting individual, community, and national health needs.
- Understand the organisation of the national systems of health care, including the Aboriginal community-controlled health sector, in order to be an effective professional.
- Advocate for equitable health care for all Australians, and in particular for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain how global health issues and determinants of health and disease impact on health care delivery in other countries, and in particular in Australia and the broader Western Pacific Region.
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Entry pathways
General Pathway entry
To be eligible for admission to the general pathway, applicants must meet the above academic requirements in addition to criteria that will be advertised annually by the University and typically require students to meet a prescribed minimum GPA, a minimum GAMSAT score, CASPER testing and an interview.Assured Pathway entry
Where students receive admission via an assured pathway, a place in the Doctor of Medicine (Sydney, Fremantle, or Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training) is conditional on the successful completion of the University’s Bachelor of Biomedical Science or Bachelor of Advanced Biomedical Science (Honours), meeting a prescribed minimum GPA.Refer to Bachelor of Biomedical Science and Bachelor of Advanced Biomedical Science (Hons) Program Requirements for details.
Priority Pathway entry
Priority pathway requirement specifics for students who have successfully completed the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences program at the University of Notre Dame Australia (entry to completion). Criteria will be advertised annually by the University and typically require students to meet a prescribed minimum requirement GPA, a minimum GAMSAT score, Casper (online situational judgement test) testing, and an interview.Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training (KCRMT)
The KCRMT will host a new end to end (4 year) medical program for up to 26 students for commencing MD program in 2025. It is designed to increase access to the MD for students from rural communities and build a future medical workforce, particularly for the Broome/Kimberley/Pilbara regions, and provide the students with the opportunity to complete all their medical training in regional WA. -
Pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
The Standard Entry Pathway
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students can apply for entry to medicine via the GEMSAS process as detailed above.The Aboriginal Entry Pathway
The School of Medicine, Sydney provides an alternative entry pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Interested students can contact the School of Medicine, Sydney on (02) 8204 4450 for more information.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders students are able to apply for entry into medicine at Notre Dame, Sydney via the Application for Entry into Medicine (for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People).
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Facilitated pathways to interview
UNDA graduates
This Facilitated Interview Pathway provides Notre Dame Graduates who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Graduate Entry Medical Schools Admission System (GEMSAS) processes an opportunity to interview for the Doctor of Medicine Program (MD) at the School of Medicine, Sydney (SoMS).
Eligibility:
- Applied for the MD program or equivalent through the GEMSAS process, and listed SoMS as their first preference in their application; and
- Fullfil all eligibility criteria for entry into the SoMS MD program as outlined in the GEMSAS Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admission Guide specifically applicable for the year of application; and
- Be graduating, or have graduated in the preceding year or year of selection from a 3.0fte undergraduate bachelor degree at The University of Notre Dame
- Have achieved a minimum GPA of 6 or above as calculated by GEMSAS and an unweighted GAMSAT of 55 or above.
- Be ranked by SoMS in the top 10 of Notre Dame Applicants applying for the MD program who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Notre Dame MD interview selection and application processes.
Interview offers:
- Up to 10 offers for interview
Any offer for an interview made through any of Notre Dame’s Facilitated Interview Pathway’s is not guaranteed entry into the SoMS Doctor of Medicine program. Following the interview, applicants are ranked by combining the scores calculated from the GPA, unweighted GAMSAT and Notre Dame Portfolio with the applicant’s interview score.
Graduate Diploma of Health and Medical Sciences graduates
This Facilitated Interview Pathway provides Notre Dame Diploma of Health and Medical Sciences graduates who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Graduate Entry Medical Schools Admission System (GEMSAS) processes, an opportunity to interview for the Doctor of Medicine Program (MD).
Eligibility:
- Applied for the MD program or equivalent through the GEMSAS process, and listed SoMS as their first preference in their application; and
- Fullfil all eligibility criteria for entry into the SoMS MD program as outlined in the GEMSAS Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admission Guide specifically applicable for the year of application; and
- Be due to complete the Graduate Diploma by 31 July in the year of application or have completed the Graduate Diploma in the previous thirty months from the closure date for submission of their GEMSAS Application and
- Achieve an equivalent GPA greater than or equal to 6.0 for the Graduate Diploma program; and
- Be ranked by SoMS in the top 20 of Graduate Diploma Applicants applying for the SoMS MD program who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard MD interview selection and application processes
UTS Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine graduates
This Facilitated Interview Pathway provides the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine graduates who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Graduate Entry Medical Schools Admission System (GEMSAS) processes an opportunity to interview for the Doctor of Medicine Program (MD) at the School of Medicine, Sydney (SoMS).
Eligibility:
- Applied for the MD program or equivalent through the GEMSAS process, and listed SoMS as their first preference in their application; and
- Fullfil all eligibility criteria for entry into the SoMS MD program as outlined in the GEMSAS Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admission Guide specifically applicable for the year of application; and
- Be graduating, or have graduated in the preceding year or year of selection from the Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine on-Campus at UTS (explicitly excluding those UTS students undertaking their Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine in a distance, online or equivalent mode) and
- Have achieved a minimum GPA of 6 or above in their Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine as calculated by GEMSAS and an unweighted GAMSAT of 55 or above.
- Be ranked by SoMS in the top 5 of UTS Bachelor of Advanced Science in Pre-Medicine Applicants applying for the MD program who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Notre Dame MD interview selection and application processes.
Interview offers:
- Up to 5 offers for interview
Any offer for an interview made through any of Notre Dame’s Facilitated Interview Pathway’s is not guaranteed entry into the SoMS Doctor of Medicine program. Following the interview, applicants are ranked by combining the scores calculated from the GPA, unweighted GAMSAT and Notre Dame Portfolio with the applicant’s interview score.
ACU Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences Facilitated Interview Pathway
This Facilitated Interview Pathway provides Australian Catholic University (ACU) Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences graduates who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Graduate Entry Medical Schools Admission System (GEMSAS) processes an opportunity to interview for the Doctor of Medicine Program (MD) at the School of Medicine, Sydney (SoMS).
Eligibility
To meet the eligibility requirements for the Facilitated Interview Pathway Program, an ACU Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences Applicant must- Have undertaken, or are undertaking, their Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences on-Campus at ACU (explicitly excluding those ACU students undertaking their Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences in a distance, online or equivalent mode); and
- Be a Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences student who has graduated from ACU in the year preceding the Facilitated Interview Pathway Program cohort or be in their final year of the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences; and
- Applied for the MD program or equivalent through the GEMSAS process, and listed the Notre Dame School of Medicine, Sydney as their first preference in their application; and
- Achieve an overall weighted GPA greater than or equal to 6.0 during the Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences program; and
- Sit the GAMSAT Test and achieve an overall GAMSAT score greater than or equal to 55; and
- Be ranked by Notre Dame in the top 5 of ACU Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences Applicants applying for the MD program who have not otherwise been offered an interview through the standard Notre Dame MD interview selection and application processes.
Interview offers:
- Up to 5 offers for interview
Any offer for an interview made through any of Notre Dame’s Facilitated Interview Pathway’s is not guaranteed entry into the SoMS Doctor of Medicine program. Following the interview, applicants are competitively ranked​ for an offer of placement.
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Key dates for Doctor of Medicine 2025 entry
Date Entry Events 1 May 2024 GEMSAS Applications open 5pm AEST/3pm AWST 31 May 2024 GEMSAS Applications close Early September Offers of interviews made Late September to early October Interviews Early November Offers of places made 20 January 2025 (TBC) Classes commence Casper Testing Dates
UNDA MD domestic applicants for the 2023-2024 admissions cycle:- Tuesday 16 April 2024 - 9am AEST
- Wednesday 1 May 2024 - 7pm AEST
- Sunday 26 May 2024 - 10am AEST
- Thursday 6 June 2024 - 7pm AEST
Please see the 2024 GEMSAS Admissions Guide for further details on admission requirements for the Doctor of Medicine.
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Practical component
Clinical Placements and rural work experiences are included in this program. Students are to complete all clinical placements including after-hours work and attend all rural experiences.
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Career opportunities
A Doctor of Medicine degree can lead to many career opportunities depending on your area of specialisation or interest. Careers include Medical practitioners, cardiologists, physiologists, obstetricians, gastroenterologists, neurologists, and oncologists.
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Real-world experience
As with all our degrees, the Doctor of Medicine places a strong emphasis on practical training and experiential learning. Throughout the four years of your study you will undertake clinical placements in a variety of settings including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals and general practice.
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Professional accreditation
The Doctor of Medicine (MD) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council as meeting national standards of medical education, permitting graduates to receive provisional registration and become a junior doctor (also known as a doctor-in-training) and enter the medical workforce.
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Fees and costs
This Program has the following loan scheme(s) available for eligible students:
FEE-HELP
The FEE-HELP loan scheme assists eligible fee-paying students with the payment of all, or part, of their tuition fees, not including additional study costs such as accommodation or textbooks. Your FEE-HELP debt will be indexed each year in line with the Consumer Price Index.For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and our online calculator, visit our Fees Page.
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More information
Considering your uni options?
Talk to one of our career advisors for a personalised advice session. Our advisors provide support while choosing a program of study and completing our application process. Book my session.
For more information, please call our Prospective Students Office on +61 8 9433 0533 for the Fremantle campus, +61 2 8204 4404 for the Sydney campus, or email medicine.admissions@nd.edu.au.
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Why study this degree?
As the only medical program offered by a Catholic university in Australia, the Doctor of Medicine aims to develop and train caring and ethical doctors imbued with the values of compassion, respect, and service. All students at Notre Dame undertake a Core Curriculum component of the study that involves an exploration of bioethics in the first year of the program.
The first and second years of your studies provide a solid foundation for your medical degree. You will have the opportunity to undertake problem-based learning tutorials conducted by medically-qualified tutors, clinical and communication skills sessions, workshops, clinical debriefing tutorials and site visits. In the second year, you will begin to work on a research-based or professionally-focused project on one of 10 themes: Clinical Science, Bioethics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Rural Medicine or Medical Leadership and Health Policy.
In the third year, you will undertake a series of clinical placements in in hospitals and community settings where you will engage with patients, their families and the healthcare professionals caring for them. This strong focus on experiential learning is further complemented by a series of weekly 'Back-to-Base Days', in which you will return to your principal Clinical School for short case tutorials, grand rounds, journal club sessions and expert guest lectures.
Your fourth and final year will see you complete further clinical placements. You will explore a range of disciplines in a range of health settings and present your project for examination in the Applied Research Project course of study. Following the fourth-year end-of-year examinations, you will commence a four-week elective learning period where you can extend your medical knowledge in an area of personal interest.
Essential elements of our Medical postgraduate degree include:
- Access to innovative clinical skills training
- Learning from clinical academics who are experts in their fields
- Aboriginal health, rural and remote placements
- A problem-based learning curriculum delivered in small groups in years one and two
- Clinical placements in both the public and private sector hospitals in years three and four
- A liberal arts education in bioethics
- Applied research project in an area of interest to you
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Program summary
Year One
- Foundations of a Medical Vocation
Year Two
- Foundations of Clinical Practice
Year Three
- Apprenticeship in Clinical Practice
Year Four
- Preparation for Internship
- Applied Research Project
Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.
More information regarding courses can be found at the course descriptions page.
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Entry requirements for international applicants
In 2024, 50 places are available for international students at the Sydney Campus (please see section below for entry requirements). International Applicants will be selected for admission based on the following criteria:
- A Bachelor’s degree that has been recognised as equivalent to an Australian Bachelor’s degree, AQF Level 7 and which has been taught and assessed in English within the last 10 years, or to be in the final year of an eligible Bachelor’s degree.
- An overall weighted Grade Point Average of 5.2 or higher on a 7 point scale, calculated from the applicant’s most recent three years of undergraduate study.
- Unweighted GAMSAT Score of at least 50 (in all sections and overall) or overall MCAT score of at least 500.
- The School of Medicine uses a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format, these interviews will be conducted online. For the online version of the MMI, you will be asked five separate interview questions. The interview will be recorded with the use of an online interviewing software tool, Modern Hire.
How to apply
International applicants for the Doctor of Medicine are required to submit the following*:
- Completed international application form
- Certified copies of academic transcripts
- Certified proof of English language proficiency
- Certified copies of GAMSAT or MCAT results
- Additional documents as outlined in the international application form
*International applicants should apply directly to the University, not through GEMSAS
Applications can be submitted online at www.notredame.edu.au/forms/apply
Contact us
To find out more, visit www.notredame.edu.au or contact the International Office on international@nd.edu.au or +61 8 9433 0531
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Learning outcomes
Clinical Practice: the medical graduate as practitioner
- Listen and respond effectively and acceptably to patients, their family/carers, doctors, and other health professionals.
- Elicit, and record legibly, an accurate, organised and problem-focussed medical history, including family and social occupational and lifestyle features, from the patient, and other sources.
- Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or an organ/system/problem-focussed examination, as indicated, and record the findings legibly and unambiguously.
- Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including relevant differential diagnoses.
- Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken, and evaluate their outcomes.
- Select and justify common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness.
- Interpret the results and confirm or modify clinical decisions and actions appropriately.
- Select, justify, and perform safely a defined range of procedures.
- Make clinical judgments and decisions based on the available evidence.
- Alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience, identify and justify relevant management options.
- Elicit patients’ questions and their views, concerns, and preferences, promote rapport, and ensure patients’ full understanding of their problem(s).
- Involve patients in decision-making and planning their treatment, including communicating risks and benefits of management options.
- Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, (and confirm their understanding) to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options.
- Undertake clinical practice which integrates prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic disease management wherever relevant.
- Prescribe medications safely, effectively, and economically, based on objective evidence.
- Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents.
- Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care and initiate that care.
- Perform common emergency and life support procedures safely, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR to an accepted standard.
- Care compassionately for patients at the end of life, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support, and other components of palliative care.
- Undertake care which places the safety of patients and their needs at its centre.
- Practise safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reporting and effective clinical handover.
- Retrieve, interpret and record information accurately and effectively in health data systems, and in conducting and reporting research (both paper and electronic).
Professionalism and Leadership: the medical graduate as a professional and a leader
- Provide care to all patients according to the guidelines: “Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia”.
- Behave in ways which demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy, and respect for all patients.
- Show integrity, honesty, leadership, initiative, professionalism and partnership to patients, the profession and society.
- Conduct clinical practice according to the principles of ethical practice.
- Communicate effectively about ethical issues with patients, family, and other healthcare professionals.
- Identify the risks posed to patients by the graduate’s own health.
- Mitigate the health risks of professional practice by taking effective action on factors that affect the graduate’s own personal health and wellbeing, including fatigue, stress management and infection control.
- Recognise their own health needs, and when to consult and follow the advice of a health professional.
- Practise in ways that demonstrate respect for the boundaries that define professional and therapeutic relationships.
- Identify and act appropriately on the options available when personal values or beliefs may influence patient care, including the obligation to refer to another practitioner.
- Respect the roles and expertise of other healthcare professionals.
- Learn and work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team.
- Self-evaluate their own professional practice through reflection and demonstrate lifelong learning behaviours.
- Demonstrate fundamental skills in educating colleagues.
- Recognise the limits of their own expertise and involve other professionals as needed to contribute to patient care.
- Fulfil the fundamental legal responsibilities of health professionals, especially those relating to ability to complete relevant certificates and documents, informed consent, duty of care to patients and colleagues, privacy, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and notification.
- Act ethically and openly where there may be financial and / or other conflicts of interest.
- Understand the specific issues associated with ethical practice associated with research, in particular with vulnerable and/or specific groups or minorities.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project according to established ethical principles and justify those principles.
Science and Scholarship: the medical graduate as scientist and scholar
- Justify clinical decisions and actions by reference to established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences.
- Justify decisions and actions in respect of individual patients, populations, and health systems by reference to core medical and scientific knowledge.
- Make diagnostic and management decisions based on accurate knowledge of the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history, and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life.
- Access, critically appraise, interpret, and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature to clinical decisions and actions, and in the practice of research.
- Formulate relevant research questions and select appropriate study designs based on knowledge of common scientific methods.
- Undertake evidence-based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge, striving to achieve a level of excellence.
- Summarise, document, report and reflect on the progress of a project in a team setting.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project under supervision with a degree of independence that shows self-reliance, the exercise of project planning skills, judgment, and flexibility.
Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate
- Protect and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and populations.
- Act on, and explain how issues such as health inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors, influence the health, illness, disease, and success of treatment of populations.
- Communicate effectively in wider roles including leadership, advocacy, teaching, assessing, appraising and research
- Act in ways which acknowledge the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of health and health experiences.
- Communicate effectively and in a culturally competent fashion with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain and justify common population health screening and prevention approaches, and the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring the health status of populations.
- Advocate for healthy lifestyle choices, based on explanations of environmental and lifestyle health risks.
- Implement a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care.
- Critically appraise the extent to which individual, community and national health needs are met by the existing roles and relationships between health agencies and services.
- Evaluate the extent to which the principles of efficient, equitable and sustainable allocation of finite resources are applied in meeting individual, community, and national health needs.
- Understand the organisation of the national systems of health care, including the Aboriginal community-controlled health sector, in order to be an effective professional.
- Advocate for equitable health care for all Australians, and in particular for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain how global health issues and determinants of health and disease impact on health care delivery in other countries, and in particular in Australia and the broader Western Pacific Region.
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Key dates for Doctor of Medicine 2024 entry
Start Date End Date Application Period 07/03/23 30/11/23 International Student Interview Ranking 15/06/23 30/11/23 International Medicine Panel Interviews 22/06/23 30/11/23 Mini Multi Interviews (MMI) 19/06/23 30/11/23 Rolling Offers and Interviews 24/07/23 30/11/23 -
Practical component
Clinical Placements and rural work experiences are included in this program. Students are to complete all clinical placements including after-hours work and attend all rural experiences.
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Career opportunities
A Doctor of Medicine degree can lead to many career opportunities depending on your area of specialisation or interest. Careers include General practice, Surgery, Physician, Public health, Medical Education, Medical research, Government departments, Not-for-profit organisations.
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Real-world experience
As with all our degrees, the Doctor of Medicine places a strong emphasis on practical training and experiential learning. Throughout the four years of your study you will undertake clinical placements in a variety of settings, including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals and general practice.
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Professional accreditation
The Doctor of Medicine (MD) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council as meeting national standards of medical education, permitting graduates to receive provisional registration and become a junior doctor (also known as a doctor-in-training) and enter the medical workforce.
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Fees and costs
Indicative Fee: $77,625
For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and our online calculator, visit our Fees Page.The figure quoted is the indicative annual fee for 2024 for international students. The exact fee for an individual student will depend on the mix of courses studied. All costs and fees are provided in Australian Dollars (AUD$).
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More information
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