Medicine - Graduate pathway

[squance]

I was just wondering....

If I wanted to do medicine as a graduate course, is it compulsory to study Biomedicine or Science as an undergraduate degree or is any undergraduate degree okay? Like for eg: if I had an engineering or arts degree, would I be able to get into med the graduate course way?

[#3171]

HI there mate, um you can do ANY undergraduate course you like !  but you have to sit the GAMSAT<-- graduate australian medical school admission test.

its basically comprised of 1st year bio, chem, YEAR 12 physics & english.

    * Section I comprises 75 questions in 100 minutes from the Humanities and Social Sciences
    * Section II - 2 essays assessing written communication (1 hour) following a 20 minute break (you may not leave the exam room during this 20 minute break)
    * Section III - 110 physical science questions in 170 min after 1 hour lunch

[wwjd]

i'm pretty sure you'd also have had to completed 2 units of anatomy and 1 unit of physiology (or vice versa - can't remember). the lecturers kept on emphasizing this at change of preference day at Melbourne University. This goes for many of the graduate health sciences!

[BA22]

Yeh, i'm not sure thats quite true about the anatomy and physiology requirements, however the melbourne model may have different rules. For monash and deakin, a solid GPA and GAMSAT should be your main focus. Alot of the universities will apply more weight to the GPA in the later years ofyour course, so don;t fret if you're first year is not as strong as you'd hoped. The GAMSAT can be a rather unforgiving assessment, the best of luck to you!

[excal]

In theory, I should be able to get into Medicine if I keep up my GPA of 6.875 (or something in that region) and [somehow] do ridiculously well in my GAMSAT.

[BA22]

That's on a 7.00 scale i take it excal, because they is very very solid for med, well for anything. There's no need to absolutely kill the GAMSAT, just to do solid really (comparative to the other applicants). I think an interview is part of the process too

[excal]

Yeah, it is on the 7 scale.

I'm 3.875 on the Monash scale (of 4).

For the record, I don't plan to enter medicine =D

[Collin Li]

I can't find anything about GPA calculation for my degree or university.

[excal]

It's on the ACER website somewhere..

[?HI?]

I think what everyone has so far is correct, but I think for the new Melbourne graduate course (which won't start until about 2011) you need to have done certain subjects in your undergraduate degree - thus the reason for the new Bachelor of Biomedicine, which has been described as the pathway for graduate med entry at Melb.

[kido_1]

Science 'can' also be a pathway.
BUT, Biomed is the 'preffered' pathway.

[bilgia]

I am doing biomed with that very hope of getting into grad med @ umelb.

[iamdan08]

Does anyone know how many people are doing biomed at melb and how many people get into graduate entry medicine?

[squance]

ANd I have another question....

Is there such thing as doing one year of undergraduate science or biomedicine and then being able to transfer into the undergraduate medicine course the next year?

[BA22]

You can, but not in Victoria. UTAS, Uni of NEWc, UNSW and adelaide (only if a current stuednt there) allow non standard student entry, and a few others i think i'm missing. So basically, you'd have to move interstate.