2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
University of Melbourne Medical School in Parkville, VIC runs a graduate-entry medicine program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: GAMSAT and MCAT. Published hurdles: GPA — minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0; GAMSAT — minimum 50 in each of the three sections. Melbourne holds multiple mini interviews (MMI). Decisions for 2027 entry: October 2026-November 2026.
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Read the guide →Integrated + Case-based learning, 4 years (graduate entry), placements in Melbourne hospitals, Shepparton, Ballarat, Echuca and Wangaratta.
See the course →Melbourne offers a research-rich 4-year graduate-entry MD anchored across the Parkville hospital precinct with extensions to the Austin, Western, and St Vincent's clinical schools, distinguished by deep biomedical research integration and a teaching network spanning six metropolitan clinical schools and four Rural Clinical School sites. Note that international students are allocated only to the Metro region.
Melbourne runs Australia's flagship 4-year graduate-entry MD anchored across the Parkville biomedical precinct (Royal Melbourne, Royal Children's, Peter MacCallum) and extending to the Austin, Epworth, Northern, Royal Melbourne, St Vincent's and Western clinical schools. Pre-interview ranking weights GPA and GAMSAT equally; the recorded online MMI then carries 50% of the final offer composite against GPA 25% and GAMSAT 25%.
Strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entry stream via the Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway, applied for directly through UoM rather than GEMSAS.
Integrated curriculum. 4-year graduate MD. Year 1 foundations and clinical skills at Parkville. Years 2-3 clinical placements across Royal Melbourne, Austin, Western, St Vincent's, and Rural Clinical School sites (Shepparton, Ballarat, Echuca, Wangaratta). Year 4 is a research project in an area of interest plus a placement-based capstone learning as a trainee junior doctor.
Discovery is a separate individualised selective pathway offered at every level of the MD, with research-scholar and clinical-scholar streams in the final two years — not the research project itself. The MD is an ungraded, pass/fail course, and the annual MD Student Conference brings together all students in the program.
Guaranteed Entry pathway (for students completing an undergraduate degree at UoM, within 18 months of commencing the MD): Melbourne Chancellor's Scholars entered on an ATAR of 99.90+ and need no minimum WAM — domestic scholars are guaranteed a CSP, international scholars an international full-fee place.
Guaranteed Full Fee Entry students entered on an ATAR of 99.00-99.85 and must maintain a WAM of at least 75%. Both must pass the MMI and neither sits GAMSAT.
This pathway is now closed to students commencing undergraduate study from 2027, who instead apply via the new Australian Full Fee Priority Pathway: same ATAR 99.0+ basis but NOT a guarantee — applicants are ranked on MMI result alone (100%) and must reach a WAM of 75% to have an offer confirmed.
Melbourne is strong in these research areas:
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
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-interview portal, clear an administrative station (photo ID to camera, then pan the room to show they are alone), and work through 8 stations.
UoM's 2027 Admissions Guide puts each station at 5 minutes and the whole interview at approximately 50 minutes; its candidate brief for the 2026 intake describes stations of about 6 minutes with the interview to be completed inside a 90-minute portal window.
Each station opens with 30 seconds of instructions and a minute to review the scenario, then four questions, each answered as a 1-minute video recording after 15 seconds of preparation, with no going back to redo an answer. It must be sat on a desktop or laptop with a webcam under exam conditions.
Rural and North Western pathway applicants sit this ROMMI PLUS a separate 3-station real-time online MMI on another day, and must score satisfactorily in each of those three stations.
UoM lists the assessed domains only as examples, and its two published lists differ: the candidate brief gives interest in the course, aptitude for collaboration, capacity for establishing rapport, aptitude for decision making, communication skills and professional behaviour, while the 2027 Admissions Guide gives professionalism, motivation, communication skills, ability to empathise and provide support, attitude towards collaboration and aptitude for decision making.
The current published pass rule is a satisfactory standard in the overall interview score plus being above the cut-score in 5 of 8 stations; UoM no longer publishes a numeric percentage threshold.
2027 cycle (indicative): 179 CSP + 71 BMP (39 via GEMSAS + 32 via MD Rural Pathway) + up to 105 full-fee places shared between domestic and international applicants ≈ ~355 total (GEMSAS 2027 UoM entry). UoM's own 2027-intake Admissions Guide gives the same total, split 295 domestic / 60 international, and labels all quotas a guide only and subject to change. No earlier-cycle intake figures are published by UoM or GEMSAS in a form this entry can cite.
University of Melbourne Medical School was founded in 1862 and is based in Parkville.
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Try the AI interviewer| Entry pathway | Graduate entry |
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| GPA | Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0 |
| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 in each of the three sections |
| Interview format | Multiple mini interviews (MMI) |
| Decisions (2027 entry) | October 2026-November 2026 |
| Admission overview | Bachelor degree normally completed within 10 years of commencing the MD (an older degree is acceptable if a graduate diploma, masters or PhD was completed within the last 10 years), minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0; GAMSAT minimum 50 in EACH of the three sections for standard-pathway domestic and onshore international applicants — UoM weights the three sections equally and explicitly does not use the GAMSAT 'overall score' — or MCAT 492+ for offshore international applicants; recorded online MMI. No prerequisite subjects. |
|---|---|
| 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 Tier-1 source confirms one. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Specialities offered | Clinical Research, Oncology, Neuroscience, Global Health, Indigenous Health |
| 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 |
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| Interview window (2027 entry) | 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) |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | October 2026-November 2026 |
| Post-interview chances | 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. |
Prepare for a camera, not a person. Melbourne's standard MMI is recorded and asynchronous, so there is no interviewer to read you, no follow-up prompt and no second attempt at a question — you get 15 seconds to think and 60 seconds to answer, four times per station. Drill one-minute answers on a timer until you can open with a clear position, give two reasons and close, because a rambling answer simply gets cut off. Run the platform tech check UoM provides in advance and sit the interview somewhere quiet where you can be alone: you must present photo ID and pan the room, and UoM warns that 'any movement away from the Interview screen, including time between Stations, can be detected and will be documented by our online interview provider'. Build a bank of 8-10 concrete anecdotes for the domains UoM publishes as examples — interest in the course, collaboration, rapport, decision making, communication, professional behaviour — but keep them conversational; UoM's admissions guide states the selection committee is 'looking for authentic and genuine responses to the interview questions rather than highly rehearsed responses'. Each station carries a standalone score and you must clear the cut-score in 5 of 8, so a single weak station is survivable and worth shaking off before the next one starts. If you are applying via the MD Rural Pathway or the North Western Pathway, note that you also sit a separate 3-station real-time online interview on rural or North Western motivation and intent to practise in the region, and you must score satisfactorily in every one of those three stations — that part is a live conversation and should be rehearsed as one.
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