How to get into Flinders Medicine

Flinders expects either Year 12 ATAR or a bachelor GPA — Graduate entry (4-year MD): completed or final-year Bachelor degree (or One-year Honours) with a minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00; valid GAMSAT with a minimum of 50 in EACH section (normally valid for four consecutive intakes; international applicants may use GAMSAT or MCAT, normally 124 per section / 496 overall); a semi-structured panel interview of approximately 45-50 minutes that must be passed.

No prerequisite subjects and no 10-year rule. SARM (rural South Australia) and NTMP (Northern Territory) pathways available, plus Rural, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and Humanitarian Visa sub-quotas; Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander graduates without a valid GAMSAT (applications open early November and close end of February).

Direct entry (6-year Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine): Year 12 with a minimum ATAR of 95.00 plus UCAT ANZ, applied for through SATAC, no interview, and applicants must not have a record of study at higher education level; a GPA of 5.0 is required to progress into the MD component. for Medicine (MBBS/MD) and uses Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle for interviews in the 2027 Entry cycle.

Entry is dual-pathway (undergraduate and graduate) and selection uses GAMSAT, UCAT-ANZ and MCAT; applications close through GEMSAS or your state TAC (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC), and CSP, BMP and full-fee places are all capped, so treat the standard above as a threshold to clear rather than a target to aim at.

This guide is written for 2027 Entry applicants and updated annually before each GEMSAS / UAC cycle. Sources include Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health's official course page, GEMSAS, the UCAT-ANZ Consortium, ACER (GAMSAT), and direct conversations with current students. Read time: ~12 minutes.

Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health's official course page was opened and reconciled with this record on 11 September 2026. Figures the school does not publish on that page remain unconfirmed.

Graduate entry (4-year MD): completed or final-year Bachelor degree (or One-year Honours) with a minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00; valid GAMSAT with a minimum of 50 in EACH section (normally valid for four consecutive intakes; international applicants may use GAMSAT or MCAT, normally 124 per section / 496 overall); a semi-structured panel interview of approximately 45-50 minutes that must be passed.

No prerequisite subjects and no 10-year rule. SARM (rural South Australia) and NTMP (Northern Territory) pathways available, plus Rural, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and Humanitarian Visa sub-quotas; Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander graduates without a valid GAMSAT (applications open early November and close end of February).

Direct entry (6-year Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine): Year 12 with a minimum ATAR of 95.00 plus UCAT ANZ, applied for through SATAC, no interview, and applicants must not have a record of study at higher education level; a GPA of 5.0 is required to progress into the MD component.

Year 12 ATAR (school leavers) or bachelor degree GPA (graduates) is the academic gateway, plus the admission test and interview.

GAMSAT is a 5.5-hour written test of Humanities & Social Sciences (Section I), Written Communication (Section II) and Biological & Physical Sciences (Section III). Run by ACER twice a year (March and September). Scores remain valid for ~4 years. Most competitive offer-holders score 60+ overall with each section above 50.

Australia has no equivalent of the UK's single UCAS personal statement. GEMSAS graduate-entry applications use GAMSAT + GPA without a written component; most state-TAC undergraduate applications use ATAR + UCAT-ANZ without a written component. The schools that DO require written content (JCU portfolio, Notre Dame Sydney/Fremantle questionnaire, Wollongong short answers, Bond essays) each ask different, school-specific questions. Treat each school's prompt set as a discrete short-answer test - do not recycle a single document across multiple schools.

Limits are school-specific. JCU portfolio responses: typically 250-500 words per question. Notre Dame questionnaire: 250-400 words per response. Wollongong short answers: ~300 words each. Bond essays: 500 words. Read the current cycle's prompt brief for each school carefully - limits and prompts shift cycle-to-cycle.

Notice: a specific scene rather than a cliché, a precise detail (the nine-minute conversation), and a closing sentence that bridges to the next paragraph. We have a step-by-step written-submissions service if you want a tutor to help shape yours.

Flinders uses Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle. For 2027 entry, interviews typically take place in 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.. Final decisions are released 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).

At Flinders, expect the following from the MMI. Multiple Mini Interviews - typically 6-10 stations of 5-8 minutes each, often with reading time before each station. Stations rotate; assessors do not see your performance at previous stations, so a poor station does not derail the rest. Most Australian MMIs run in October-December, in person or via video link (Modern Hire / Zoom).

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 to every applicant, assessing quality of motivation, learning style, communication skills, pro-social attitude and approach to decision-making.

The panel is small and normally consists of an academic staff member, a community member and a doctor; interviewers are given nothing about you beyond your name, and any notes they take are destroyed. Short-listing is on overall GAMSAT score within the sub-quotas you are eligible for, conditional on the minimum of 50 in each section.

The interview is a hurdle — you must pass it to be considered at all, and a weighted GPA is only calculated for applicants who pass. Final selection rank is the equal weighting of three components: interview score, wGPA from the most recent Bachelor degree, and overall GAMSAT score.

Applicants living in metropolitan Adelaide (or metropolitan Darwin, for NT places) are interviewed in person; those interstate or more than 60 km outside the relevant metropolitan area may be interviewed online via Microsoft Teams. A non-refundable $65.00 (inc. GST) interview administration fee is payable when you book your slot. No performance feedback is given — only scores are recorded.

Our MMI prep programme covers ethics frameworks (SPIES, the four pillars), structured behavioural answers (STAR), and live mock interviews with admissions specialists.

The cycle runs roughly January 2025 (start of prep) through GEMSAS preference lock and state-TAC deadlines in September 2026, MMIs in October-December 2026, to first-round offers in December 2026 and course start in late January / early February 2027. Here are the milestones you cannot miss.

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, domain-organised curriculum, a semi-structured panel interview of approximately 45-50 minutes (not MMI), and a flagship Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP). The NT Government funds NTMP tuition under the NT Bonded Medical Scheme in exchange for a return-of-service commitment to work in the Northern Territory for at least two years after graduation; Flinders states that this return of service cannot be transferred to South Australia. NTMP cumulative output 251 graduates since 2011 (10% Indigenous); Flinders reports 88% of its NT medical graduates are Territorians and more than half go on to practise in the NT (February 2026).

Flinders does not publish a single total MD intake figure; the intake is assembled from Bedford Park (Flinders Graduates max 75%, Non-Flinders Graduates min 25%, Rural min 28% of SA places, up to 5 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander places, up to 4 Humanitarian Visa places), SARM up to 60 for 2027 entry (30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland), NTMP up to 24 Employer Reserved fee-paying places, plus a separate international intake. Indicative annual MD fees published for 2026 entry: AUD $13,558 Commonwealth Supported (domestic — the same student contribution whether the place is Bonded or Non-Bonded) and AUD $91,200 full-fee international; 2027 fees are not yet published. Separately, on the 6-year direct-entry Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine (a different course, 2026 fees $9,537 CSP / $52,300 international), Flinders' published profile shows 73 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 — 35 domestic recent-secondary and 38 international.