Question 1

What admission tests do Melbourne and Tasmania use?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne uses GAMSAT and MCAT. 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 Melbourne vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — Minimum 50 in each of the three sections. Ranking formula uses GAMSAT at 25% post-interview (MMI 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%). Pre-interview shortlisting weights GPA and GAMSAT equally (50/50). UoM does not publish accepted or cut-off GAMSAT scores for any cycle, and because it ranks on the three sections weighted equally rather than on ACER's overall score, an 'average accepted GAMSAT' is not a figure its process produces. No official source confirms one. 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 Melbourne vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — 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 Melbourne vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — 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 Melbourne vs Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0. UoM weighting formula: (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 2) / 5. A completed PhD — not a Masters — can earn re-ranking in the applicant's favour: it must be in a health-related or biological sciences discipline and completed within 10 years of MD commencement. UoM publishes a quota of up to 10 places for applicants re-ranked on this basis, but states the Selection Committee is not required to fill it and that any unused places are allocated as normal; its current Selection Guidelines add that re-ranking is decided case-by-case each year and that the detail is not disclosed to applicants. 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 Melbourne and Tasmania?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne uses: Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview (ROMMI) — 8 stations, ~5 minutes each, recorded and asynchronous with no live interviewer; Rural and North Western pathway applicants additionally sit a 3-station real-time online MMI. 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: September (2027 intake: rural-pathway MMIs online in the week of 7 September 2026; standard domestic and international MMIs online in the week of 14 September 2026. Interview offers go out mid-August for international and rural applicants and late August for domestic applicants) (Melbourne); 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 Melbourne and Tasmania offer?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — 2027 cycle (indicative): 179 CSP + 71 BMP (39 via GEMSAS + 32 via MD Rural Pathway) + up to 105 full-fee places covering domestic AND international full-fee combined ≈ ~355 total. GEMSAS notes these quotas are indicative only and subject to change, and UoM's 2027-intake Admissions Guide independently puts the total at 355, of which 60 are international and 295 domestic. 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 Melbourne and Tasmania offer?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants apply directly through the University of Melbourne Course Application portal (not via GEMSAS) when UoM is their only preference, completing the Graduate Access Melbourne section and supplying a Confirmation of Identity to the faculty's Indigenous admissions team. GAMSAT is not required; minimum GPA 5.0 still applies. Eligible applicants are not ranked and are selected for a Commonwealth Supported Place if they hold a GPA of 5.0 or above and pass the MMI, and are invited to an additional interview with a panel chaired by the Deputy Dean (Indigenous) of the Faculty (or their nominee) and other appropriate representatives. 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 Melbourne or Tasmania offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne — MD Rural Pathway: 32 bonded CSP places (part of the 71 BMP allocation) — 17 reserved for students of La Trobe University's Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Medical), who must reach a final course WAM of 70% to have a conditional offer confirmed, and 15 open to other rural-origin applicants with a GPA of 5.0+ who are shortlisted for and pass the rural-pathway interview. Applicants apply direct to UoM, not via GEMSAS, and do not sit GAMSAT if the Rural Pathway is their only preference; shortlisting is on GPA alone. Rurality means MM2-MM7 principal residence for 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years. The rural interview runs in two parts on separate days — a 3-station real-time online MMI on rural motivation, connection and intent to practise rurally, in which a satisfactory score is required in every station, plus the standard 8-station recorded online MMI — and offers are ranked 70% interview / 30% GPA. Separately, at least 30% of all CSPs are offered as priority access to rural-background applicants. 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

Melbourne typically releases medicine offers October-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 Melbourne and Tasmania use?

Accepted Answer

Melbourne 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. Melbourne specifics: 4-year graduate MD. Year 1 is Foundations for Clinical Practice (81.25 points): small-group clinically focused cases taken body system by body system, clinical skills, and longitudinal community and h Tasmania specifics: 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (minimum 5 years, maximum 7; 500 credit points — 300 from the BMedSc, 200 from the MD — awarded on a single testamur). UTAS's re

Question 12

Should I apply to both Melbourne 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; Melbourne and Tasmania differ in their selection mechanics, so prepping both adds genuine optionality.

Comparison field	MelbourneParkville	TasmaniaHobart
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Location	Parkville, Australia	Hobart, Australia
Entry pathway	Graduate	Dual (UG + Grad)
Admission tests	GAMSAT + MCAT	UCAT-ANZ + GAMSAT + ISAT + MCAT
GAMSAT	Minimum 50 in each of the three sections. Ranking formula uses GAMSAT at 25% post-interview (MMI 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%). Pre-interview shortlisting weights GPA and GAMSAT equally (50/50). UoM does not publish accepted or cut-off GAMSAT scores for any cycle, and because it ranks on the three sections weighted equally rather than on ACER's overall score, an 'average accepted GAMSAT' is not a figure its process produces. No official source confirms one.	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	Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview (ROMMI) — 8 stations, ~5 minutes each, recorded and asynchronous with no live interviewer; Rural and North Western pathway applicants additionally sit a 3-station real-time online MMI	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	UoM does not publish interview-to-offer conversion. What is published is the hurdle: an applicant must achieve a satisfactory standard in their overall MMI score AND be above the cut-score in 5 of 8 stations to be eligible for an offer, after which the MMI carries 50% of the final ranking (70% on the rural and North Western pathways). UoM no longer publishes a numeric minimum percentage for the overall MMI score.	N/A — no interview.
Decision date	October-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 of the three sections. Ranking formula uses GAMSAT at 25% post-interview (MMI 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%). Pre-interview shortlisting weights GPA and GAMSAT equally (50/50). UoM does not publish accepted or cut-off GAMSAT scores for any cycle, and because it ranks on the three sections weighted equally rather than on ACER's overall score, an 'average accepted GAMSAT' is not a figure its process produces. No official source confirms one.	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 weighted GPA 5.0/7.0. UoM weighting formula: (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 2) / 5. A completed PhD — not a Masters — can earn re-ranking in the applicant's favour: it must be in a health-related or biological sciences discipline and completed within 10 years of MD commencement. UoM publishes a quota of up to 10 places for applicants re-ranked on this basis, but states the Selection Committee is not required to fill it and that any unused places are allocated as normal; its current Selection Guidelines add that re-ranking is decided case-by-case each year and that the detail is not disclosed to applicants.	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 (indicative): 179 CSP + 71 BMP (39 via GEMSAS + 32 via MD Rural Pathway) + up to 105 full-fee places covering domestic AND international full-fee combined ≈ ~355 total. GEMSAS notes these quotas are indicative only and subject to change, and UoM's 2027-intake Admissions Guide independently puts the total at 355, of which 60 are international and 295 domestic.	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	Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants apply directly through the University of Melbourne Course Application portal (not via GEMSAS) when UoM is their o…	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	MD Rural Pathway: 32 bonded CSP places (part of the 71 BMP allocation) — 17 reserved for students of La Trobe University's Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Medical), who must reach a final course WAM o…	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	September (2027 intake: rural-pathway MMIs online in the week of 7 September 2026; standard domestic and international MMIs online in the week of 14 September 2026. Interview offers go out mid-August for international and rural applicants and late August for domestic applicants)	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	Melbourne's standard MMI is delivered online and asynchronously — a Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview (ROMMI) with no live interviewer and nothing on campus. Candidates log into a recorded-intervie…	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	Clinical Research, Oncology, Neuroscience, Global Health, Indigenous Health	Rural Medicine, Regional Health, General Practice, Aged Care, Indigenous Health
Established	1862	1965
Course type	Undergraduate	Undergraduate
What makes it different	Melbourne's 4-year graduate-entry MD is based at Parkville; the AMC's 2022 report records it as the first program in Australia to award the MD. Clinical training is based at a primary clinical school:…	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://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/doctor-of-medicine/	https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/health/courses/h3x-bachelor-of-medical-science-and-doctor-of-medicine

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