Question 1

What admission tests do Griffith and Tasmania use?

Accepted Answer

Griffith uses GAMSAT. Tasmania uses UCAT-ANZ, GAMSAT, ISAT 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 Griffith vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — Minimum 50 in each section AND 50 overall. Interview shortlist rank: 50:50 unweighted GPA (as %) + overall GAMSAT (out of 100). Final offer rank: 50% interview-selection rank + 50% GUMSAA interview score. Minimum GAMSAT 50 in each section (Griffith MD 5099 page), with GEMSAS additionally requiring an overall score of at least 50; scores must be no more than four years old at the time of application. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GAMSAT for a GUMSAA interview invitation, which was 69 for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 intakes. GEMSAS: 'there is no discrete cut-off point for GAMSAT. Tasmania — Previous-higher-education route: minimum score of 50 in all three sections of GAMSAT. Accepted sittings are the same as those used by GEMSAS, although the application itself goes direct to UTAS, not through GEMSAS. From 2027 the UTAS Bachelor of Biomedicine (M3X) quota also requires GAMSAT 50 in all three sections; the retiring BMedRes (53E) pathway required no admission test. UTAS publishes no offer-holder GAMSAT score. 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 Griffith vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — does not publish a UCAT-ANZ cut-off (may not use UCAT-ANZ; check the admission-test question above). Tasmania — No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates). 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 Griffith vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — ATAR data not published in the structured AU requirements; see free-text admission requirements on the school page. Tasmania — Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker. 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 Griffith vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — Minimum 5.0/7.0. Griffith explicitly states "a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0". Minimum eligibility is an unweighted GEMSAS-schema GPA of 5.0/7.0. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GPA for a GUMSAA interview invitation: 6.831 (2024 intake), 6.792 (2025 intake), 6.729 (2026 intake). Tasmania — Previous-higher-education entry: minimum unweighted GPA 5.25 — the bar for an application to be considered, not a competitive GPA. Calculated across all tertiary study at AQF 7 and above (the first Bachelor degree is calculated at its completion). A completed Masters by Research adds 0.2 points; a completed PhD adds 0.4 points. UTAS publishes no offer-holder GPA. 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 Griffith and Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Griffith uses: GUMSAA — an asynchronous, one-way recorded online MMI delivered on the SAMMI (Scalable Automated Multiple Mini Interviews) platform, self-scheduled within a set window. Griffith's 2026-27 SAMMI applicant guide specifies 6 pre-recorded scenario questions with a 60-second break between each and roughly 1 hour allowed end to end (including sound/Wi-Fi checks and an upload of up to 15 minutes). There is no live interviewer. The guide gives the response time inconsistently (an overview stating 'up to 5 minutes' per question and a later page stating the station 'will last 4 minutes'), so treat per-question timing as approximately 4-5 minutes and check the guide issued for your own cycle.. Tasmania uses: No interview in standard selection — ATAR-first ranking with UCAT-ANZ tiebreaker (Aboriginal Entry Pathway applicants are interviewed; UTAS publishes no format). Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: Late September. For 2027 entry, a self-scheduled slot between 9am Mon 21 and 5pm Fri 25 September 2026 (AEST) — a single five-day window, not a September-October season. GEMSAS describes the window as tentative, so confirm before booking travel or leave. Offers of interview must be accepted by 9am Friday 4 September 2026. (Griffith); No interview (standard entry). Aboriginal Entry Pathway applicants are interviewed by representatives of the Medicine Admissions Committee; UTAS does not publish an interview window. (Tasmania).

Question 7

What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do Griffith and Tasmania offer?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — 2027 cycle: 148 CSP + 60 BMP = 208 domestic places, with ~80 of those 208 reserved for the Griffith/UniSC BMedSci pathway (that 80 itself includes 28.5% BMP places), plus up to 35 international. Tasmania — UTAS does not publish a total number of places. Published figures only: at least 75% of domestic places to Tasmanians; a 50% rural quota (MM2-7) including 25% from MM3-7; 20 Tasmanian Rural Training Stream places at Cradle Coast; approximately 30% of domestic students enrolled into the Bonded Medical Program each year; Aboriginal Entry Pathway uncapped. UTAS announced 29 first-year students commencing at Launceston in February 2026, that campus's first first-year intake. 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 Griffith and Tasmania offer?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — First Peoples Health Pathway: apply via GEMSAS identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with any key degree at GPA 5.0 or higher. No GAMSAT is required and no GUMSAA interview is sat — applicants are interviewed instead by a panel including the GUMURRII Student Success Unit, the Office of the DVC (Indigenous) and Griffith Health. Confirmation of Aboriginality is due to Griffith by 7 August 2026 for 2027 entry, and a $20,000 First Peoples MD Scholarship is available. Tasmania — Aboriginal Entry Pathway (AEP), open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants and run on a separate application form alongside the standard UTAS application. No clinical aptitude test is required — neither UCAT-ANZ nor GAMSAT. In exchange the pathway adds requirements: a Confirmation of Eligibility, a personal supporting statement, Year 12 English and Chemistry or equivalent (within the last 5 years; the KRA161 foundation unit accepted for chemistry), a competitive ATAR for school leavers, or health-field qualifications and experience plus a referee report for non-school leavers — and, for both, an interview with representatives of the Medicine Admissions Committee. No cap published. 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 Griffith or Tasmania offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Accepted Answer

Griffith — BMP places carry a Return of Service Obligation of 156 weeks (3 years) working as a medical practitioner in eligible regional, rural and remote areas after completing the medical course. Entry via GURPAS does not itself make a place bonded — Griffith distributes bonded and unencumbered CSP places across both rural and non-rural applicants, and there is no rural service requirement unless you are admitted to a BMP place. GURPAS rural priority: at least 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years since birth in an MM2-MM7 area. Griffith's dedicated GURPAS page — the page GEMSAS directs applicants to — specifies the 2023 Modified Monash Model, checked via the Health Workforce Locator with the year set to 2023. Note Griffith's Pathways to Medicine page still cites the 2019 model; the two classify some addresses differently, so check both and confirm with Griffith admissions before relying on borderline eligibility. BMedSci provisional UG pathway has 28.5% BMP-reserved places. BMedSci provisional pathway, 2026 entry: the lowest adjusted ATAR/rank to receive an offer was 99.90 at Gold Coast and 99.95 at Brisbane South (Nathan). These are lowest-offer outcomes for that cycle, not guaranteed cut-offs. Eligible rural applicants assessed as rural by QTAC receive a 0.05 ATAR/rank adjustment. Tasmania — Two separate things. Bonded Medical Program: UTAS is required by the Commonwealth to enrol approximately 30% of domestic BMedScMD students each year into the BMP, which carries a 156-week (3-year) return-of-service obligation in eligible regional, rural and remote areas; bonded offers go to both school leavers and previous-higher-education applicants, and the BMP is not a scholarship. Tasmanian Rural Training Stream: 20 domestic places at Cradle Coast only, assessed on the same ATAR/UCAT (or GPA/GAMSAT) criteria and prioritised over four tiers — Tier 1 Tasmanian MM3-7 plus Tasmanian postcodes beginning 72xx/73xx; Tier 2 other Tasmanian MM2; Tier 3 interstate MM3-7; Tier 4 interstate MM1-2. TRTS is not itself a Bonded Medical Program place, but accepting one requires a written commitment to complete all five years at the Cradle Coast campus (Burnie) and its associated training sites. Separately, a 50% rural quota (MM2-7, including 25% from MM3-7) applies across the whole domestic intake. 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

Griffith typically releases medicine offers November. Tasmania releases medicine offers Mid-December (first-round offers to Tasmanian Year 12 applicants on ATAR); January (interstate Year 12 and IB applicants) — the pattern UTAS publishes on its application-dates table each cycle. International applicants are handled in four offer rounds across the preceding year (rounds closing 30 May, 31 July, 30 September and 30 November), with offers made within two weeks of each round closing.. 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 Griffith and Tasmania use?

Accepted Answer

Griffith runs a Integrated curriculum. Tasmania runs a Integrated curriculum. Both schools deliver teaching in the same broad style, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar. Griffith specifics: 4-year graduate MD run in phases: Phase 1 Foundations (1.5 years) and Phase 2 Transitions (1.5 years) before the final clinical phase. Years 1-2 (Phase 1 and the first block of Phase 2) are campus-bas Tasmania specifics: 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (course code H3X; minimum 5 years, maximum 7; AQF level 7; 500 credit points — 300 from the BMedSc, 200 from the MD — awarded on

Question 12

Should I apply to both Griffith and Tasmania?

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; Griffith and Tasmania differ in their selection mechanics, so prepping both adds genuine optionality.

Comparison field	GriffithGold Coast	TasmaniaHobart
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Location	Gold Coast, Australia	Hobart, Australia
Entry pathway	Graduate	Dual (UG + Grad)
Admission tests	GAMSAT	UCAT-ANZ + GAMSAT + ISAT + MCAT
GAMSAT	Minimum 50 in each section AND 50 overall. Interview shortlist rank: 50:50 unweighted GPA (as %) + overall GAMSAT (out of 100). Final offer rank: 50% interview-selection rank + 50% GUMSAA interview score. Minimum GAMSAT 50 in each section (Griffith MD 5099 page), with GEMSAS additionally requiring an overall score of at least 50; scores must be no more than four years old at the time of application. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GAMSAT for a GUMSAA interview invitation, which was 69 for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 intakes. GEMSAS: 'there is no discrete cut-off point for GAMSAT.	Previous-higher-education route: minimum score of 50 in all three sections of GAMSAT. Accepted sittings are the same as those used by GEMSAS, although the application itself goes direct to UTAS, not through GEMSAS. From 2027 the UTAS Bachelor of Biomedicine (M3X) quota also requires GAMSAT 50 in all three sections; the retiring BMedRes (53E) pathway required no admission test. UTAS publishes no offer-holder GAMSAT score.
UCAT-ANZ	-	No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).
ATAR	-	Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker.
Interview format	GUMSAA — an asynchronous, one-way recorded online MMI delivered on the SAMMI (Scalable Automated Multiple Mini Interviews) platform, self-scheduled within a set window. Griffith's 2026-27 SAMMI applicant guide specifies 6 pre-recorded scenario questions with a 60-second break between each and roughly 1 hour allowed end to end (including sound/Wi-Fi checks and an upload of up to 15 minutes). There is no live interviewer. The guide gives the response time inconsistently (an overview stating 'up to 5 minutes' per question and a later page stating the station 'will last 4 minutes'), so treat per-question timing as approximately 4-5 minutes and check the guide issued for your own cycle.	No interview in standard selection — ATAR-first ranking with UCAT-ANZ tiebreaker (Aboriginal Entry Pathway applicants are interviewed; UTAS publishes no format)
Post-interview chance	Griffith publishes the ratio rather than a conversion rate: around 200 candidates are interviewed at GUMSAA for approximately 110-120 places (2027 cycle). Note places are not offers — top-up offers are made in later rounds to cover declines — and the final rank is a 50:50 combination of interview score and GPA/GAMSAT selection rank, so this is a cohort ratio, not an individual applicant's odds. The ~38% figure is not published by Griffith or GEMSAS.	N/A — no interview.
Decision date	November	Mid-December (first-round offers to Tasmanian Year 12 applicants on ATAR); January (interstate Year 12 and IB applicants) — the pattern UTAS publishes on its application-dates table each cycle. International applicants are handled in four offer rounds across the preceding year (rounds closing 30 May, 31 July, 30 September and 30 November), with offers made within two weeks of each round closing.

ATAR	-	Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker.
Contextual ATAR	-	The Rural Application Process (RAP) is the only ATAR adjustment UTAS makes for any course: 4 additional ATAR points for Year 12 applicants from MM2 areas and 5 for MM3-7, for applicants who have lived in an MM2-7 area for 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years (maximum RAP adjustment five points). Non-school-leaver rural applicants should still apply via RAP for quota and funding eligibility but receive no ATAR adjustment. Special consideration is assessed separately and cannot waive the subject prerequisites.
GAMSAT	Minimum 50 in each section AND 50 overall. Interview shortlist rank: 50:50 unweighted GPA (as %) + overall GAMSAT (out of 100). Final offer rank: 50% interview-selection rank + 50% GUMSAA interview score. Minimum GAMSAT 50 in each section (Griffith MD 5099 page), with GEMSAS additionally requiring an overall score of at least 50; scores must be no more than four years old at the time of application. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GAMSAT for a GUMSAA interview invitation, which was 69 for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 intakes. GEMSAS: 'there is no discrete cut-off point for GAMSAT.	Previous-higher-education route: minimum score of 50 in all three sections of GAMSAT. Accepted sittings are the same as those used by GEMSAS, although the application itself goes direct to UTAS, not through GEMSAS. From 2027 the UTAS Bachelor of Biomedicine (M3X) quota also requires GAMSAT 50 in all three sections; the retiring BMedRes (53E) pathway required no admission test. UTAS publishes no offer-holder GAMSAT score.
UCAT-ANZ	-	No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).
CASPer	-	-
ISAT	-	-
GPA	Minimum 5.0/7.0. Griffith explicitly states "a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0". Minimum eligibility is an unweighted GEMSAS-schema GPA of 5.0/7.0. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GPA for a GUMSAA interview invitation: 6.831 (2024 intake), 6.792 (2025 intake), 6.729 (2026 intake).	Previous-higher-education entry: minimum unweighted GPA 5.25 — the bar for an application to be considered, not a competitive GPA. Calculated across all tertiary study at AQF 7 and above (the first Bachelor degree is calculated at its completion). A completed Masters by Research adds 0.2 points; a completed PhD adds 0.4 points. UTAS publishes no offer-holder GPA.
Prerequisites	-	-
Place types	2027 cycle: 148 CSP + 60 BMP = 208 domestic places, with ~80 of those 208 reserved for the Griffith/UniSC BMedSci pathway (that 80 itself includes 28.5% BMP places), plus up to 35 international.	UTAS does not publish a total number of places. Published figures only: at least 75% of domestic places to Tasmanians; a 50% rural quota (MM2-7) including 25% from MM3-7; 20 Tasmanian Rural Training Stream places at Cradle Coast; approximately 30% of domestic students enrolled into the Bonded Medical Program each year; Aboriginal Entry Pathway uncapped. UTAS announced 29 first-year students commencing at Launceston in February 2026, that campus's first first-year intake.
Indigenous pathway	First Peoples Health Pathway: apply via GEMSAS identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with any key degree at GPA 5.0 or higher. No GAMSAT is required and no GUMSAA interview is sat —…	Aboriginal Entry Pathway (AEP), open to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants and run on a separate application form alongside the standard UTAS application. No clinical aptitude test is…
Bonded / rural	BMP places carry a Return of Service Obligation of 156 weeks (3 years) working as a medical practitioner in eligible regional, rural and remote areas after completing the medical course. Entry via GUR…	Two separate things. Bonded Medical Program: UTAS is required by the Commonwealth to enrol approximately 30% of domestic BMedScMD students each year into the BMP, which carries a 156-week (3-year) ret…

Interview window	Late September. For 2027 entry, a self-scheduled slot between 9am Mon 21 and 5pm Fri 25 September 2026 (AEST) — a single five-day window, not a September-October season. GEMSAS describes the window as tentative, so confirm before booking travel or leave. Offers of interview must be accepted by 9am Friday 4 September 2026.	No interview (standard entry). Aboriginal Entry Pathway applicants are interviewed by representatives of the Medicine Admissions Committee; UTAS does not publish an interview window.
Interview details	Griffith MMI runs as GUMSAA (Griffith University Multi Station Admissions Assessment) — scenario-based, online, held September. Griffith publishes the format. Six scenario questions, each introduced b…	UTAS is one of very few Australian medical schools that does not interview: "The University of Tasmania does not conduct interviews during selection for the Medicine Program." There is no CASPer and n…

Specialities	Rural Medicine, Primary Care, Indigenous Health, Trauma and Emergency	Rural Medicine, Regional Health, General Practice, Aged Care, Indigenous Health
Established	2005	1965
Course type	Undergraduate	Undergraduate
What makes it different	Griffith's 4-year graduate MD is based at the Gold Coast campus (next to Gold Coast University Hospital) or the Sunshine Coast Health Institute at Birtinya. A new Toowoomba teaching location carries 1…	Tasmania is the only medical school in the state, and from 2026 it runs at all three campuses — Hobart, Launceston and Cradle Coast (Burnie) — with applicants ranked and offers made separately against…
Official course page	https://www.griffith.edu.au/study/degrees/doctor-of-medicine-5099	https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/health/courses/h3x-bachelor-of-medical-science-and-doctor-of-medicine

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