NZ and Aus Entry Pathways to Medicine (1 Viewer)
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Not too sure about New Zealand, but in Australia there are several medical programs. Some medical programs are undergraduate, some are postgraduate, but the postgraduate ones usually still let you get “entry” straight after school, you just have to do a 3 year degree first.
The easiest pathway into medicine is using an ATAR and UCAT (if you want to do med next year sign up for the UCAT asap!), and applications generally go through UAC (and it’s counterparts in other states) and require an interview process. Failing this, one can also get into medicine while at university, through a combination of your GPA/WAM (basically just average marks) and by sitting a test called the GAMSAT.
The easiest pathway into medicine is using an ATAR and UCAT (if you want to do med next year sign up for the UCAT asap!), and applications generally go through UAC (and it’s counterparts in other states) and require an interview process. Failing this, one can also get into medicine while at university, through a combination of your GPA/WAM (basically just average marks) and by sitting a test called the GAMSAT.
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May also be of possible interest to some to note that there are Commonwealth funded courses and non funded courses. Non funded programs like Bond University’s are prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of students, however because most families can’t afford the fees (https://bond.edu.au/program/medical-program-bachelor-of-medical-studies-doctor-of-medicine/fees), students from rich families don’t have as much academic competition to get in.