Curtin Medicine InterviewFormat, Questions & Prep Tips
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Curtin is one of the newest Australian medical schools (first intake 2017) and runs a 5-year undergraduate MD designed for outer-metropolitan Perth, rural Western Australia, and Indigenous workforce service. The MMI runs 8 stations of 8 minutes each (with a 2-minute reading window). Stations span ethical reasoning, communication and role-play, motivation, teamwork, and reflective practice.
CASPer is required alongside UCAT-ANZ and ATAR — distinctive among Australian undergraduate medical programmes. CASPer quartile materially influences pre-interview ranking. Prepare for CASPer as seriously as UCAT-ANZ; practise typed situational judgement responses under time pressure.
Curtin's mission is outer-metropolitan and rural WA workforce — examiners specifically probe candidates who can name communities (Mandurah, Rockingham, Northam, Esperance) and connect motivation to workforce shortages. The Centre for Aboriginal Studies entry pathway provides bespoke MMI and weighted academic review for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants.
Curtin interview at a glance
Interview format
- Multiple Mini Interview with 8 stations of 8 minutes each (+ 2-minute reading).
- CASPer required alongside UCAT-ANZ and ATAR — distinctive among AU undergrad MDs.
- Delivered at the Bentley campus or virtually depending on cycle.
- Stations cover ethics, communication and role-play, motivation, teamwork, reflection.
- Pre-interview ranking weights ATAR, UCAT-ANZ, AND CASPer outcomes.
- Centre for Aboriginal Studies entry pathway with bespoke MMI weighting.
Sample interview questions
Why Curtin specifically? What attracts you to a newer medical programme with an outer-metropolitan and rural workforce mission?
Engage with Curtin's specific mission, the Bentley campus, and the East Metropolitan Health Service network. Authentic specifics over branding.
What's your connection to outer-metropolitan Perth or rural WA?
Concrete: Mandurah, Rockingham, Northam, Esperance, Kalgoorlie. Generic enthusiasm scores poorly.
A patient at Midland Public Hospital declines treatment because they don't trust the medical system. What do you do?
Engage with the historical reasons for distrust (particularly relevant to Indigenous and outer-metro communities), capacity, autonomy, and relational rebuilding of trust.
Voluntary assisted dying is legal in WA. How does the WA framework operate?
Engage with WA VAD Act's eligibility, conscientious objection provisions, and the VAD Navigator Service.
Role-play: explain to a patient in Esperance why their cardiac investigation requires retrieval to Perth.
Plain language. Time-critical without panic. Engage the patient. Reference RFDS / WA retrieval pathways.
What does the Curtin Rural Clinical School (Northam, Esperance, Kalgoorlie, Bunbury) mean to you?
Concrete engagement with the geography and workforce needs.
Explain bulk-billing access and Medicare to a young patient in outer-metropolitan Perth.
Plain language. Concrete dollar example. Cultural context.
Closing the Gap targets continue to lag in outer-metropolitan Perth and rural WA. What role can a Curtin graduate play?
Concrete: AMS partnerships (Derbarl Yerrigan, Kimberley AMS), cultural safety, recognising racism, workforce closing the gap.
Describe a time you connected with someone from a very different background.
Authentic. Outer-metro Perth is culturally diverse.
A patient asks for a controlled medication. SafeScript WA shows recent prescriptions from multiple sources. What do you do?
Real-time monitoring, addiction medicine, therapeutic relationship, alternatives.
Tell us about a time you reflected on critical feedback.
Authentic.
Should Curtin's rural-bonded graduates be required to complete a defined rural service period?
Workforce intent, autonomy, BMP framework. Balanced reasoning.
Role-play: explain to a parent in Mandurah why their child's viral fever doesn't need antibiotics.
Validate. Plain language. Antibiotic stewardship.
Describe a time you worked in a team in a constrained environment.
Process focus. Constructive problem-solving.
What concerns you most about a newer medical school like Curtin?
Honest. Network effects, alumni pipelines, identity formation. Self-aware engagement.
A teammate at Curtin makes a culturally insensitive comment during a Centre for Aboriginal Studies workshop. Address it.
Specific behaviour. Private conversation first. Escalation if needed.
What does CASPer as part of selection signal about Curtin's priorities?
Engage with the situational judgement signal and how it complements traditional academic assessment.
Practise the Curtin interview
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