Question 1

What admission tests do JCU and UWA use?

Accepted Answer

JCU uses no admission test. UWA 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 JCU vs UWA?

Accepted Answer

JCU — does not publish a GAMSAT cut-off (may not use GAMSAT; check the admission-test question above). UWA — Graduate Pathway: minimum GAMSAT 55 overall with no section below 50. Scores are valid for four years as at the application closing date — for 2028 commencement the earliest accepted sitting is September 2023 and the latest March 2027. Applicants holding more than one valid score may use their best, not necessarily the most recent. 2027 interview shortlist: 60% GPA + 40% GAMSAT (both GAMSAT and GPA are standardised before shortlisting, and all scores are standardised prior to final ranking). Domestic applicants who were successful in obtaining an interview for 2026 entry averaged GAMSAT 68.53 (GEMSAS) — an interview-invite average, not an offer-holder average; UWA and GEMSAS publish no offer-holder figures. 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 JCU vs UWA?

Accepted Answer

JCU — does not publish a UCAT-ANZ cut-off (may not use UCAT-ANZ; check the admission-test question above). UWA — Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ. 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 JCU vs UWA?

Accepted Answer

JCU — JCU publishes no ATAR threshold — 'JCU does not have set ATAR thresholds for entry to Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science courses'. Published entry-score range for Semester 1 2026 entry, covering recent secondary students offered a place: Townsville highest 99.95 / median 97.90 / lowest 84.15; Cairns highest 99.95 / median 97.65 / lowest 88.00 — identical with and without adjustments, because no adjustment factors apply to Medicine. JCU notes the table includes deferred offers that may have been assessed against an earlier year's threshold, and that meeting a threshold does not guarantee admission; these are historical lowest-offer figures, not a cut-off to aim at. Non-school-leavers need a minimum unweighted GPA of 5.75/7 for tertiary results to be assessed — JCU explicitly calls this 'not a threshold or benchmark'. Earlier figures in this entry belong to a superseded cycle. UWA — Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026). 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 JCU vs UWA?

Accepted Answer

JCU — GPA not published in the structured AU requirements. UWA — Graduate Pathway minimum GPA 5.5 at the time of interview selection, unweighted, calculated over the most recent three full-time-equivalent years (3 FTE = 144 credit points at UWA), excluding credit/advanced standing. A completed PhD, or a completed UWA Doctor of Dental Medicine, is deemed a GPA of 7.0; a completed Masters by research adds a 0.2 bonus. There is no 10-year rule. Domestic applicants who were successful in obtaining an interview for 2026 entry averaged GPA 6.82 (GEMSAS) — an interview-invite average, not an offer-holder average and not a threshold; the published minimum is GPA 5.5 at the time of interview selection. Assured Pathway: students complete the 3-year Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) with the Integrated Medical Sciences and Clinical Practice major (TISC application code UG056; UWA course code BP056), holding the conditional MD place by achieving a selection GPA of at least 5.5 within the first two years; the major carries one year of credit into the MD, so both degrees finish in six years. 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 JCU and UWA?

Accepted Answer

JCU uses: Live online panel interview run on the Kira Talent platform (not a recorded one-way video task). JCU states that panels 'typically include a health practitioner, an academic staff member and a member of the community'; it described the interview as 'live, with three panel members' for the 2026 cycle and states that international interviews run 'live, with two panel members'. JCU does not publish a panel size, station count or duration for the current 2027 cycle.. UWA uses: Multi-Mini Interview (8 stations x 7 minutes) for domestic applicants; panel of two interviewers (~50 minutes) for international applicants. Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: 2027 entry (current cycle): round 1 invites 6 November 2026, interviews 24 November - 1 December 2026; round 2 invites 21 December 2026, interviews 6-7 January 2027. Both rounds occur before any offers are determined. International applicants are interviewed earlier and on a separate timeline — check JCU's international capped-courses page for the current dates. (JCU); Late September-early October (graduate MD, expected online); 30 November-11 December 2026 (domestic school leaver). International: main round May, second round late July/early August. (UWA).

Question 7

What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do JCU and UWA offer?

Accepted Answer

JCU — Approximately 170 domestic Commonwealth Supported Places across Townsville and Cairns for 2027 entry (~180 in 2026), plus approximately 35 international places in Townsville and ~5 in Cairns, on JCU's own figures. Nationally, 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs must be allocated to the Bonded Medical Program; JCU also reserves a small number of places under the QTAC Rural Access Scheme. Applicants cannot request whether their offer is a bonded or a standard place, and declining a bonded offer means declining the JCU Medicine offer altogether. UWA — 2027 cycle: 206 domestic places plus approximately 40 international across both pathways, with up to 50% of places filled by school-leaver (Assured Pathway) entry and the remainder by graduate entry — GEMSAS lists up to 103 domestic graduate places. UWA designates 28.5% of Commonwealth supported places as Bonded Medical Places (the page also words this as 28.5% of all domestic places); within the domestic quota up to 10% is Indigenous and 30% rural, and 20 school-leaver places are reserved for Broadway schools. (Fraser's). Indigenous allocation up to 10% of domestic places. 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 JCU and UWA offer?

Accepted Answer

JCU — Indigenous Selection Pathway — Medicine only (JCU has no equivalent pathway for Dentistry or Veterinary Science, though it encourages applications). To be considered, applicants must complete all four steps: apply through QTAC for the MBBS; identify to QTAC as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander; apply directly to JCU; and email an endorsed Confirmation of Indigenous Status (COI) letter to indigenoushealthpathway@jcu.edu.au. The COI letter must be issued by an incorporated Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community organisation, signed by an official delegate and stamped with the common seal; applicants whose circumstances make a COI letter hard to obtain are told to contact the College of Medicine and Dentistry to discuss alternatives. Ongoing academic and pastoral support is available through the JCU Indigenous Education and Research Centre. UWA — Boola Boola Djinda ('Many, Many Stars'), established in 2025 as the successor to the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health (CAMDH, established 1996) and still referred to as CAMDH on UWA's MD page and by GEMSAS, runs the graduate Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander pathway for both the UWA MD and DMD: GPA 5.0 or above, no GAMSAT and no ATAR required, and a one-day panel interview at the centre. Two intakes (July and September) with applications due mid-June and mid-August and interviews at the end of July and end of September. Final ranking for Indigenous graduate applicants is on GPA and interview only. The school-leaver Indigenous route is separate — minimum ATAR 90 (vs 98 standard), with the School of Indigenous Studies as first contact. 2027 Indigenous allocation up to 10% of domestic places. 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 JCU or UWA offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Accepted Answer

JCU — Bonded places run through the federal Bonded Medical Program: universities must allocate 28.5% of commencing Commonwealth Supported Places in medicine to the Program, in return for a 156-week (3-year) Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas (Department of Health conditions document, December 2025). JCU applicants cannot request a bonded or non-bonded place, and declining the bond means declining the JCU Medicine offer. Separately, a small number of places are reserved under the QTAC Rural Access Scheme for applicants who have lived in an MM2-7 area for 5 consecutive years (60 months) or 10 cumulative years (120 months); 2027 Rural Access Scheme applications close 29 September 2026. MRBS is a closed legacy scheme nationally, replaced by the Bonded Medical Program. JCU does not publish the share of its own intake that is bonded. On graduate outcomes, published research on JCU's first 20 years (Woolley, Sen Gupta & Paton, Rural and Remote Health 2021, article 6642) followed 931 graduates of the 2005-2014 cohorts at PGY5-14 and found 54.0% practising in MMM1 metro, 29.1% in MMM2 regional cities, 14.1% in MMM3-5 rural towns and 2.9% in MMM6-7 remote communities. UWA — ~30% of domestic places allocated rural; eligibility requires a principal home address in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2023) MM-2 to MM-7 area for five consecutive years or at least ten cumulative years, with school leavers lodging UWA's Rural Eligibility form via TISC by the TISC closing date and graduates submitting supporting documentation via GEMSAS (due 15 June 2026 for 2027 entry). 2027 final ranking (rural graduate): GPA 22.5% + GAMSAT 15% + Interview 37.5% + Rurality rating 25%. Rural school leavers: ATAR 22.5% + Interview 37.5% + UCAT-ANZ 15% + Rurality rating 25%. Standard non-rural final ranking: GPA 30% + GAMSAT 20% + Interview 50%. 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

JCU typically releases medicine offers Domestic: a single QTAC January offer round — offers released 14 January 2027, accept or defer by 18 January 2027 (preferences lock 7 January 2027). JCU makes no provisional or conditional offers for Medicine; all decisions rest on actual results with prerequisites met. Accepted Medicine offers may be deferred for one year on request. International offers run earlier and on a separate timeline — check JCU's international capped-courses page.. UWA releases medicine offers November-January (domestic: graduate offer rounds from November via GEMSAS, school-leaver offers on TISC timelines in December/January); international offers from late May and early August. 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 JCU and UWA use?

Accepted Answer

JCU runs a Integrated curriculum. UWA runs a Integrated curriculum. Both schools deliver teaching in the same broad style, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar. JCU specifics: 6-year undergraduate MBBS, offered in full at both the Townsville and Cairns campuses (QTAC 317012 and 327012), with hands-on facilities at both from first year. Placements occur in every year of the  UWA specifics: Assured Pathway: 3-year Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) with the Integrated Medical Sciences and Clinical Practice major (TISC code UG056, UWA code BP056), needing a selection GPA of 5.5 within

Question 12

Should I apply to both JCU and UWA?

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; JCU and UWA differ in their selection mechanics, so prepping both adds genuine optionality.

Comparison field	JCUTownsville & Cairns	UWACrawley
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Location	Townsville & Cairns, Australia	Crawley, Australia
Entry pathway	Undergraduate	Dual (UG + Grad)
Admission tests	None	UCAT-ANZ + GAMSAT + ISAT + MCAT
GAMSAT	-	Graduate Pathway: minimum GAMSAT 55 overall with no section below 50. Scores are valid for four years as at the application closing date — for 2028 commencement the earliest accepted sitting is September 2023 and the latest March 2027. Applicants holding more than one valid score may use their best, not necessarily the most recent. 2027 interview shortlist: 60% GPA + 40% GAMSAT (both GAMSAT and GPA are standardised before shortlisting, and all scores are standardised prior to final ranking). Domestic applicants who were successful in obtaining an interview for 2026 entry averaged GAMSAT 68.53 (GEMSAS) — an interview-invite average, not an offer-holder average; UWA and GEMSAS publish no offer-holder figures.
UCAT-ANZ	-	Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.
ATAR	JCU publishes no ATAR threshold — 'JCU does not have set ATAR thresholds for entry to Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science courses'. Published entry-score range for Semester 1 2026 entry, covering recent secondary students offered a place: Townsville highest 99.95 / median 97.90 / lowest 84.15; Cairns highest 99.95 / median 97.65 / lowest 88.00 — identical with and without adjustments, because no adjustment factors apply to Medicine. JCU notes the table includes deferred offers that may have been assessed against an earlier year's threshold, and that meeting a threshold does not guarantee admission; these are historical lowest-offer figures, not a cut-off to aim at. Non-school-leavers need a minimum unweighted GPA of 5.75/7 for tertiary results to be assessed — JCU explicitly calls this 'not a threshold or benchmark'. Earlier figures in this entry belong to a superseded cycle.	Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026).
Interview format	Live online panel interview run on the Kira Talent platform (not a recorded one-way video task). JCU states that panels 'typically include a health practitioner, an academic staff member and a member of the community'; it described the interview as 'live, with three panel members' for the 2026 cycle and states that international interviews run 'live, with two panel members'. JCU does not publish a panel size, station count or duration for the current 2027 cycle.	Multi-Mini Interview (8 stations x 7 minutes) for domestic applicants; panel of two interviewers (~50 minutes) for international applicants
Post-interview chance	JCU does not publish an interview-to-offer conversion rate for Medicine.	Not publicly disclosed.
Decision date	Domestic: a single QTAC January offer round — offers released 14 January 2027, accept or defer by 18 January 2027 (preferences lock 7 January 2027). JCU makes no provisional or conditional offers for Medicine; all decisions rest on actual results with prerequisites met. Accepted Medicine offers may be deferred for one year on request. International offers run earlier and on a separate timeline — check JCU's international capped-courses page.	November-January (domestic: graduate offer rounds from November via GEMSAS, school-leaver offers on TISC timelines in December/January); international offers from late May and early August

ATAR	JCU publishes no ATAR threshold — 'JCU does not have set ATAR thresholds for entry to Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science courses'. Published entry-score range for Semester 1 2026 entry, covering recent secondary students offered a place: Townsville highest 99.95 / median 97.90 / lowest 84.15; Cairns highest 99.95 / median 97.65 / lowest 88.00 — identical with and without adjustments, because no adjustment factors apply to Medicine. JCU notes the table includes deferred offers that may have been assessed against an earlier year's threshold, and that meeting a threshold does not guarantee admission; these are historical lowest-offer figures, not a cut-off to aim at. Non-school-leavers need a minimum unweighted GPA of 5.75/7 for tertiary results to be assessed — JCU explicitly calls this 'not a threshold or benchmark'. Earlier figures in this entry belong to a superseded cycle.	Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026).
Contextual ATAR	-	Indigenous school-leaver Assured Pathway minimum ATAR 90 (vs 98 standard), via the School of Indigenous Studies. For the Broadway and Rural quotas the ATAR 98 minimum is assessed AFTER applicable Broadway adjustments, and EAS or Uway adjustments are taken into account for all quotas. Rural school leavers carry a 25% rurality rating in the final ranking (ATAR 22.5% + interview 37.5% + UCAT-ANZ 15% + rurality 25%).
GAMSAT	-	Graduate Pathway: minimum GAMSAT 55 overall with no section below 50. Scores are valid for four years as at the application closing date — for 2028 commencement the earliest accepted sitting is September 2023 and the latest March 2027. Applicants holding more than one valid score may use their best, not necessarily the most recent. 2027 interview shortlist: 60% GPA + 40% GAMSAT (both GAMSAT and GPA are standardised before shortlisting, and all scores are standardised prior to final ranking). Domestic applicants who were successful in obtaining an interview for 2026 entry averaged GAMSAT 68.53 (GEMSAS) — an interview-invite average, not an offer-holder average; UWA and GEMSAS publish no offer-holder figures.
UCAT-ANZ	-	Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.
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GPA	-	Graduate Pathway minimum GPA 5.5 at the time of interview selection, unweighted, calculated over the most recent three full-time-equivalent years (3 FTE = 144 credit points at UWA), excluding credit/advanced standing. A completed PhD, or a completed UWA Doctor of Dental Medicine, is deemed a GPA of 7.0; a completed Masters by research adds a 0.2 bonus. There is no 10-year rule. Domestic applicants who were successful in obtaining an interview for 2026 entry averaged GPA 6.82 (GEMSAS) — an interview-invite average, not an offer-holder average and not a threshold; the published minimum is GPA 5.5 at the time of interview selection. Assured Pathway: students complete the 3-year Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) with the Integrated Medical Sciences and Clinical Practice major (TISC application code UG056; UWA course code BP056), holding the conditional MD place by achieving a selection GPA of at least 5.5 within the first two years; the major carries one year of credit into the MD, so both degrees finish in six years.
Prerequisites	English, Maths Methods, Chemistry (Units 3/4, C) — all three are true prerequisites that must be completed before an offer is made; JCU issues no conditional offers. Higher maths (e.g. Specialist Mathematics) satisfies the Maths Methods prerequisite, and any Queensland Year 12 English subject (English, EAL, English and Literature Extension, Essential English or Literature) satisfies English. Applicants who did not complete Year 12 in Queensland may still meet the prerequisites and should contact JCU. Applicants who have already finished Year 12 can use the JCU Prep pathway to complete missing prerequisites (not available to students currently in Year 12, and it cannot be used to meet ATAR or GPA requirements). There is no Biology or Physics requirement or recommendation for Medicine — JCU recommends Biology for Dentistry and Veterinary Science only.	-
Place types	Approximately 170 domestic Commonwealth Supported Places across Townsville and Cairns for 2027 entry (~180 in 2026), plus approximately 35 international places in Townsville and ~5 in Cairns, on JCU's own figures. Nationally, 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs must be allocated to the Bonded Medical Program; JCU also reserves a small number of places under the QTAC Rural Access Scheme. Applicants cannot request whether their offer is a bonded or a standard place, and declining a bonded offer means declining the JCU Medicine offer altogether.	2027 cycle: 206 domestic places plus approximately 40 international across both pathways, with up to 50% of places filled by school-leaver (Assured Pathway) entry and the remainder by graduate entry — GEMSAS lists up to 103 domestic graduate places. UWA designates 28.5% of Commonwealth supported places as Bonded Medical Places (the page also words this as 28.5% of all domestic places); within the domestic quota up to 10% is Indigenous and 30% rural, and 20 school-leaver places are reserved for Broadway schools. (Fraser's). Indigenous allocation up to 10% of domestic places.
Indigenous pathway	Indigenous Selection Pathway — Medicine only (JCU has no equivalent pathway for Dentistry or Veterinary Science, though it encourages applications). To be considered, applicants must complete all four…	Boola Boola Djinda ('Many, Many Stars'), established in 2025 as the successor to the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health (CAMDH, established 1996) and still referred to as CAMDH on UWA's M…
Bonded / rural	Bonded places run through the federal Bonded Medical Program: universities must allocate 28.5% of commencing Commonwealth Supported Places in medicine to the Program, in return for a 156-week (3-year)…	~30% of domestic places allocated rural; eligibility requires a principal home address in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2023) MM-2 to MM-7 area for five consecutive years or at least ten cumulative yea…

Interview window	2027 entry (current cycle): round 1 invites 6 November 2026, interviews 24 November - 1 December 2026; round 2 invites 21 December 2026, interviews 6-7 January 2027. Both rounds occur before any offers are determined. International applicants are interviewed earlier and on a separate timeline — check JCU's international capped-courses page for the current dates.	Late September-early October (graduate MD, expected online); 30 November-11 December 2026 (domestic school leaver). International: main round May, second round late July/early August.
Interview details	JCU does not require UCAT-ANZ or GAMSAT, and states applicants who sit either 'receive no advantage or improved consideration'. Selection sequence for 2027 entry: apply via QTAC AND separately through…	UWA MMI uses 8 numbered stations of 7 minutes each — 2 minutes to consider the written question, then 5 minutes with the interviewer — with the whole process taking approximately 70-75 minutes includi…

Specialities	Tropical Medicine, Rural and Remote Medicine, Indigenous Health, Pacific Health, General Practice	Rural and Remote Medicine, Indigenous Health, Tropical Medicine, Clinical Research, General Practice
Established	2000	1957
Course type	Undergraduate	Undergraduate
What makes it different	JCU requires neither UCAT-ANZ nor GAMSAT and states that sitting either confers no advantage — unusual in Australia, though not unique: Bond University also requires neither, substituting its own onli…	UWA is one of only a handful of Australian medical schools with a true dual-pathway entry: a 6-year Assured Pathway from school (3-year Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) then the MD with one year…
Official course page	https://www.jcu.edu.au/courses/bachelor-of-medicine-bachelor-of-surgery	https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/courses/doctor-of-medicine

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