Q: What GPA do I need for Adelaide vs Flinders?

Adelaide — GPA not published in the structured AU requirements. Flinders — Minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00 from the most recent Bachelor degree to be ELIGIBLE to apply (2027 Domestic Application Guide). Flinders does not publish the GPA profile of successful applicants, so no 'typical' figure should be quoted. Note the eligibility GPA is not the figure used for ranking: once you pass the interview, Flinders recalculates a WEIGHTED GPA over your last three full-time-equivalent years, with the final year counted triple and the year before it double ((Yr3 x 3 + Yr2 x 2 + Yr1) / 6); applicants still completing their degree at the end of 2026 are weighted over the last 2.5 FTE years using first-semester final-year results. Postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters, PhDs) are excluded from the wGPA and from the selection rank entirely. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Many AU graduate MD programs treat the GPA as a hurdle (above the floor, all candidates are weighted equally on GAMSAT and interview) rather than as a sliding-scale rank — confirm each school's specific model.

Q: How do interviews differ between Adelaide and Flinders?

Adelaide uses: Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).. Flinders uses: Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle. Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: November-December (Adelaide); 2027 entry: SA interviews 21 September - 2 October 2026; NT interviews 21-24 September 2026. Flinders notes the interview timeline may change for the 2026-2027 admission cycle. (Flinders).

Q: What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do Adelaide and Flinders offer?

Adelaide — Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page. Flinders — Bedford Park sub-quotas (2027 entry): Flinders University Graduates a maximum 75% of total places (within which a maximum 30% is the Flinders Graduates Reserved stream for Bachelor of Medical Science, Medical Science (Accelerated), Medical Science (Honours, 4yr), Paramedicine or Public Health graduates); Non-Flinders Graduates a minimum 25%; Rural sub-quota a minimum 28% of SA places; Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander up to 5 places; Humanitarian Visa holders up to 4 places. South Australia Rural Medical (SARM) Program: up to 60 places for 2027 entry — 30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland — with priority to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants, then rural SA residents, then interstate rural applicants; non-rural applicants committed to rural practice may apply but are considered only should places not be filled from rural backgrounds. Northern Territory Medical Program: up to 24 Employer Reserved (fee-paying) places funded by the NT Government. International places are applied for separately and directly to Flinders. The older Doctor of Medicine Rural Stream (MDRS) sub-quota has been discontinued and replaced by SARM. CSP (Commonwealth Supported Place) is the lowest student contribution; BMP (Bonded Medical Program) adds a 1-year return-of-service obligation in a Modified Monash Model 2-7 area after Fellowship; Full-fee places carry no bond but the highest tuition.

Q: Does Adelaide or Flinders offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Adelaide — Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approximately 41 places are reserved for the Rural Background pathway, open to applicants who lived in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2019) MM 2–7 area for at least five consecutive years or ten years cumulatively, with a Rural Entry Pathway Statutory Declaration uploaded to SATAC within five days; interview places are filled in four priority categories (MM 2–7 applicant at an SA rural school, then at any SA school, then at a rural school in any state, then anywhere in Australia) and ranked on UCAT ANZ within each. All Commonwealth Supported students must complete at least four weeks of rural placement, and 30% of domestic students must spend a full clinical year rurally — allocated by random ballot if not filled voluntarily. A minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations go to South Australians. Flinders — NTMP: NT government pays course fees in exchange for 4-year NT service commitment. SARM up to 60 rural SA places. Distinctive ~6-month NT placement for non-NT-stream students; full 4-year course delivery available at Darwin. The federal BMP allocates ~28.5% of CSP places nationally; individual schools sit above or below that benchmark depending on their workforce remit.

Q: When does each school release decisions?

Adelaide typically releases medicine offers January. Flinders releases medicine offers Late October to mid-February (2027 entry: outcomes notified from late October 2026, with offers possible right up to course commencement in mid-February 2027; waitlisted applicants also notified). AU MD offers run through GEMSAS (graduate consortium) or direct school portals; if one is earlier than the other you may need to defer a decision while waiting for the second.

Q: What curriculum style do Adelaide and Flinders use?

Adelaide runs a Integrated curriculum. Flinders runs a Case-based curriculum. The teaching philosophies differ — pick the style that matches how you learn best. Adelaide specifics: 6-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine (BMS/MD; 3 + 3). Taught at the Adelaide City Campus (Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, corner of North Terrace and Ge Flinders specifics: 4-year graduate MD organised around domains of medical practice — health and illness, the doctor-patient relationship, health and society, professionalism, leadership, and science and scholarship — de

Question 1

What admission tests do Adelaide and Flinders use?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide uses UCAT-ANZ. Flinders uses GAMSAT, UCAT-ANZ and MCAT. The test mismatch means you may need to prep two assessments simultaneously, or you can pick the school whose admission test you're stronger in. GAMSAT is graduate-only and sat in March/September; UCAT-ANZ is undergraduate-leaning and sat in July; some schools (notably Bond and JCU) run their own selection model with no national test.

Question 2

What GAMSAT score do I need for Adelaide vs Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — does not publish a GAMSAT cut-off (may not use GAMSAT; check the admission-test question above). Flinders — Minimum 50 in each section (a hurdle, not a competitive score). Flinders publishes the realised cut-offs on the MD course page: for 2027 entry the overall GAMSAT score cut-offs to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW were Rural Bedford Park 61, Humanitarian Visa Holders 60, Flinders Graduate 64, Flinders Graduate Reserved 64, and Non-Flinders Graduates/Non-Rural/Non-Humanitarian 76. SARM and NTMP cut-offs are not published because selection there is also priority-based. These are interview cut-offs, not offer cut-offs; Flinders notes they are 'based on the main round of interview offers' and will be updated if further interview offers are made, and that they 'are dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every year'. The overall GAMSAT score is calculated as ((1 x Section I) + (1 x Section II) + (2 x Section III)) / 4. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. GAMSAT results are valid for four years with ACER, but some graduate MD programs accept only the most recent two cycles — verify before relying on an older sitting.

Question 3

What UCAT-ANZ score do I need for Adelaide vs Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates. Flinders — does not publish a UCAT-ANZ cut-off (may not use UCAT-ANZ; check the admission-test question above). These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. UCAT-ANZ cut-offs are cohort-dependent, so the headline number from one cycle is not guaranteed for the next — use it as a planning anchor, not a guarantee.

Question 4

What ATAR do I need for Adelaide vs Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs. Flinders — ATAR data not published in the structured AU requirements; see free-text admission requirements on the school page. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Selection rank typically includes Educational Access Scheme bonuses, rural-origin uplift, and (where applicable) Indigenous-pathway adjustments — your raw ATAR is rarely the final figure used.

Question 5

What GPA do I need for Adelaide vs Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — GPA not published in the structured AU requirements. Flinders — Minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00 from the most recent Bachelor degree to be ELIGIBLE to apply (2027 Domestic Application Guide). Flinders does not publish the GPA profile of successful applicants, so no 'typical' figure should be quoted. Note the eligibility GPA is not the figure used for ranking: once you pass the interview, Flinders recalculates a WEIGHTED GPA over your last three full-time-equivalent years, with the final year counted triple and the year before it double ((Yr3 x 3 + Yr2 x 2 + Yr1) / 6); applicants still completing their degree at the end of 2026 are weighted over the last 2.5 FTE years using first-semester final-year results. Postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters, PhDs) are excluded from the wGPA and from the selection rank entirely. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Many AU graduate MD programs treat the GPA as a hurdle (above the floor, all candidates are weighted equally on GAMSAT and interview) rather than as a sliding-scale rank — confirm each school's specific model.

Question 6

How do interviews differ between Adelaide and Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide uses: Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).. Flinders uses: Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle. Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: November-December (Adelaide); 2027 entry: SA interviews 21 September - 2 October 2026; NT interviews 21-24 September 2026. Flinders notes the interview timeline may change for the 2026-2027 admission cycle. (Flinders).

Question 7

What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do Adelaide and Flinders offer?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page. Flinders — Bedford Park sub-quotas (2027 entry): Flinders University Graduates a maximum 75% of total places (within which a maximum 30% is the Flinders Graduates Reserved stream for Bachelor of Medical Science, Medical Science (Accelerated), Medical Science (Honours, 4yr), Paramedicine or Public Health graduates); Non-Flinders Graduates a minimum 25%; Rural sub-quota a minimum 28% of SA places; Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander up to 5 places; Humanitarian Visa holders up to 4 places. South Australia Rural Medical (SARM) Program: up to 60 places for 2027 entry — 30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland — with priority to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants, then rural SA residents, then interstate rural applicants; non-rural applicants committed to rural practice may apply but are considered only should places not be filled from rural backgrounds. Northern Territory Medical Program: up to 24 Employer Reserved (fee-paying) places funded by the NT Government. International places are applied for separately and directly to Flinders. The older Doctor of Medicine Rural Stream (MDRS) sub-quota has been discontinued and replaced by SARM. CSP (Commonwealth Supported Place) is the lowest student contribution; BMP (Bonded Medical Program) adds a 1-year return-of-service obligation in a Modified Monash Model 2-7 area after Fellowship; Full-fee places carry no bond but the highest tuition.

Question 8

What Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entry pathways do Adelaide and Flinders offer?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Entry is via the School of Medicine's own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway, documented on the Bachelor of Medical Studies page — not via the old Wirltu Yarlu Access Pathway, whose URLs now redirect to Adelaide University's First Nations page, which lists the Bachelor of Medical Studies among degrees with their own dedicated entry routes rather than under the general Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pathway. Applicants apply through SATAC with an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statutory Declaration uploaded within five working days and are not required to sit the UCAT ANZ. A number of places are reserved — Adelaide does not publish the count — and all eligible applicants are invited to interview: a panel of three to four people (academics, clinicians and alumni, largely Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander), around 20 minutes long, preceded by an informal yarn. The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences no longer exists; the program sits in the College of Health, School of Medicine. Flinders — Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) supports and prepares Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander applicants who hold a bachelor's degree, including those without a valid GAMSAT. Poche Centre for Indigenous Health connections. Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) supports and prepares Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander graduates, including those without a valid GAMSAT, via the one-week Preparation for Medicine Program and the 10-week online FUELS course; Poche SA+NT (Flinders' Aboriginal-led centre at Bedford Park and Alice Springs) connections. NTMP prioritises in four tiers: (1) Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicant who meets the NT residency requirements, (2) non-Indigenous applicant who meets the NT residency requirements, (3) Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicant who is not an NT resident, (4) all other applicants. SARM runs its own five-tier order: (1) Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants from any Australian state or territory, (2) non-Indigenous applicants from an SA rural background, (3) non-Indigenous applicants from an SA background, (4) non-Indigenous rural applicants from outside SA, (5) all other applicants. Up to 5 Bedford Park places are reserved for eligible Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants. Both schools accept ATSI applicants through the standard pathway as well; the dedicated pathway typically offers adjusted academic thresholds plus wrap-around academic support.

Question 9

Does Adelaide or Flinders offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approximately 41 places are reserved for the Rural Background pathway, open to applicants who lived in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2019) MM 2–7 area for at least five consecutive years or ten years cumulatively, with a Rural Entry Pathway Statutory Declaration uploaded to SATAC within five days; interview places are filled in four priority categories (MM 2–7 applicant at an SA rural school, then at any SA school, then at a rural school in any state, then anywhere in Australia) and ranked on UCAT ANZ within each. All Commonwealth Supported students must complete at least four weeks of rural placement, and 30% of domestic students must spend a full clinical year rurally — allocated by random ballot if not filled voluntarily. A minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations go to South Australians. Flinders — NTMP: NT government pays course fees in exchange for 4-year NT service commitment. SARM up to 60 rural SA places. Distinctive ~6-month NT placement for non-NT-stream students; full 4-year course delivery available at Darwin. The federal BMP allocates ~28.5% of CSP places nationally; individual schools sit above or below that benchmark depending on their workforce remit.

Question 10

When does each school release decisions?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide typically releases medicine offers January. Flinders releases medicine offers Late October to mid-February (2027 entry: outcomes notified from late October 2026, with offers possible right up to course commencement in mid-February 2027; waitlisted applicants also notified). AU MD offers run through GEMSAS (graduate consortium) or direct school portals; if one is earlier than the other you may need to defer a decision while waiting for the second.

Question 11

What curriculum style do Adelaide and Flinders use?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide runs a Integrated curriculum. Flinders runs a Case-based curriculum. The teaching philosophies differ — pick the style that matches how you learn best. Adelaide specifics: 6-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine (BMS/MD; 3 + 3). Taught at the Adelaide City Campus (Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, corner of North Terrace and Ge Flinders specifics: 4-year graduate MD organised around domains of medical practice — health and illness, the doctor-patient relationship, health and society, professionalism, leadership, and science and scholarship — de

Question 12

Should I apply to both Adelaide and Flinders?

Accepted Answer

Yes — AU medical applicants typically lodge preferences across multiple schools via GEMSAS (graduate) or direct-undergraduate portals + state TACs (UAC for NSW, VTAC for VIC, QTAC for QLD, etc.). The two schools' selection mechanics differ enough that listing both is a legitimate diversification strategy. A common mistake is over-indexing on schools with the same test-and-interview profile; Adelaide and Flinders differ in their selection mechanics, so prepping both adds genuine optionality.

Comparison field	AdelaideAdelaide	FlindersBedford Park
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Location	Adelaide, Australia	Bedford Park, Australia
Entry pathway	Undergraduate	Dual (UG + Grad)
Admission tests	UCAT-ANZ	GAMSAT + UCAT-ANZ + MCAT
GAMSAT	-	Minimum 50 in each section (a hurdle, not a competitive score). Flinders publishes the realised cut-offs on the MD course page: for 2027 entry the overall GAMSAT score cut-offs to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW were Rural Bedford Park 61, Humanitarian Visa Holders 60, Flinders Graduate 64, Flinders Graduate Reserved 64, and Non-Flinders Graduates/Non-Rural/Non-Humanitarian 76. SARM and NTMP cut-offs are not published because selection there is also priority-based. These are interview cut-offs, not offer cut-offs; Flinders notes they are 'based on the main round of interview offers' and will be updated if further interview offers are made, and that they 'are dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every year'. The overall GAMSAT score is calculated as ((1 x Section I) + (1 x Section II) + (2 x Section III)) / 4.
UCAT-ANZ	UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.	-
ATAR	Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs.	-
Interview format	Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).	Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle
Post-interview chance	Not published by Adelaide, and no admissions centre or Medical Deans report gives an interview-to-offer rate for this program. The only Tier-1 figures are approximately 600 domestic applicants invited to interview and 160 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 (28 of them international) — enough to show that a ~35% domestic conversion is unsupported, but not enough to state a rate, since commencements are not offers and the same interview also covers Dentistry and Oral Health applicants.	Not published — Flinders does not release an interview-to-offer conversion rate. What is published is that the interview is a pass/fail hurdle (fail it and the application ends there, whatever the academic profile) and that, once passed, the interview score carries an equally weighted third of the final selection rank alongside wGPA and overall GAMSAT.
Decision date	January	Late October to mid-February (2027 entry: outcomes notified from late October 2026, with offers possible right up to course commencement in mid-February 2027; waitlisted applicants also notified)

ATAR	Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs.	-
Contextual ATAR	Adjustment factors for the Bachelor of Medical Studies are available only under the Universities Equity Scheme — the medicine program does not consider subject adjustment factors, so the Universities Language, Literacy and Mathematics Scheme does not apply. A minimum 50% of school-leaver applicants invited to interview will be from South Australia (an interview-invitation quota, not an offer quota).	-
GAMSAT	-	Minimum 50 in each section (a hurdle, not a competitive score). Flinders publishes the realised cut-offs on the MD course page: for 2027 entry the overall GAMSAT score cut-offs to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW were Rural Bedford Park 61, Humanitarian Visa Holders 60, Flinders Graduate 64, Flinders Graduate Reserved 64, and Non-Flinders Graduates/Non-Rural/Non-Humanitarian 76. SARM and NTMP cut-offs are not published because selection there is also priority-based. These are interview cut-offs, not offer cut-offs; Flinders notes they are 'based on the main round of interview offers' and will be updated if further interview offers are made, and that they 'are dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every year'. The overall GAMSAT score is calculated as ((1 x Section I) + (1 x Section II) + (2 x Section III)) / 4.
UCAT-ANZ	UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.	-
CASPer	-	-
ISAT	-	-
GPA	-	Minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00 from the most recent Bachelor degree to be ELIGIBLE to apply (2027 Domestic Application Guide). Flinders does not publish the GPA profile of successful applicants, so no 'typical' figure should be quoted. Note the eligibility GPA is not the figure used for ranking: once you pass the interview, Flinders recalculates a WEIGHTED GPA over your last three full-time-equivalent years, with the final year counted triple and the year before it double ((Yr3 x 3 + Yr2 x 2 + Yr1) / 6); applicants still completing their degree at the end of 2026 are weighted over the last 2.5 FTE years using first-semester final-year results. Postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters, PhDs) are excluded from the wGPA and from the selection rank entirely.
Prerequisites	-	-
Place types	Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page.	Bedford Park sub-quotas (2027 entry): Flinders University Graduates a maximum 75% of total places (within which a maximum 30% is the Flinders Graduates Reserved stream for Bachelor of Medical Science, Medical Science (Accelerated), Medical Science (Honours, 4yr), Paramedicine or Public Health graduates); Non-Flinders Graduates a minimum 25%; Rural sub-quota a minimum 28% of SA places; Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander up to 5 places; Humanitarian Visa holders up to 4 places. South Australia Rural Medical (SARM) Program: up to 60 places for 2027 entry — 30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland — with priority to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants, then rural SA residents, then interstate rural applicants; non-rural applicants committed to rural practice may apply but are considered only should places not be filled from rural backgrounds. Northern Territory Medical Program: up to 24 Employer Reserved (fee-paying) places funded by the NT Government. International places are applied for separately and directly to Flinders. The older Doctor of Medicine Rural Stream (MDRS) sub-quota has been discontinued and replaced by SARM.
Indigenous pathway	Entry is via the School of Medicine's own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway, documented on the Bachelor of Medical Studies page — not via the old Wirltu Yarlu Access Pathway, whose URLs no…	Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) supports and prepares Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander applicants who hold a bachelor's degree, including those without a valid GAMSAT. Poche Centre for Indigenous Healt…
Bonded / rural	Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approxima…	NTMP: NT government pays course fees in exchange for 4-year NT service commitment. SARM up to 60 rural SA places. Distinctive ~6-month NT placement for non-NT-stream students; full 4-year course deliv…

Interview window	November-December	2027 entry: SA interviews 21 September - 2 October 2026; NT interviews 21-24 September 2026. Flinders notes the interview timeline may change for the 2026-2027 admission cycle.
Interview details	Adelaide runs a Multiple Mini Interview with a minimum of six stations lasting 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held entirely online over Zoom — there is no in-person, telephone or altern…	Flinders uses a semi-structured panel interview normally lasting approximately 45-50 minutes (not an MMI) — distinctive among Australian medical schools. A common set of scenarios and questions is put…

Specialities	Rural Medicine, Clinical Research, Reproductive Medicine, Indigenous Health, General Practice	Rural and Remote Medicine, Indigenous Health, Mental Health, General Practice, Public Health
Established	1885	1974
Course type	Undergraduate	Undergraduate
What makes it different	Adelaide runs South Australia's oldest medical school (est. 1885) as a 6-year undergraduate BMS+MD (3+3). Admission offer weighting: Academic 40% + UCAT cognitive 20% + Interview 40%. Strong rural pip…	Flinders runs one of Australia's first graduate-entry medical program in Australia (the medical school opened in 1974 with an intake of 64; four-year graduate entry followed in 1996) with a case-based…
Official course page	https://adelaide.edu.au/study/degrees/bachelor-of-medical-studies/dom/	https://www.flinders.edu.au/study/courses/postgraduate-doctor-medicine

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