Medical schools in Queensland
Queensland's four medical schools cover the widest selection-method spread in Australia. UQ runs the country's largest graduate MD (GAMSAT, ~470 places, tropical-medicine focus). Griffith offers a Gold Coast graduate MD with MMI. James Cook University in Townsville is the only Australian school with no UCAT/GAMSAT requirement — it selects on written application and a semi-structured interview built around rural commitment. Bond University's private accelerated 4-year-8-month MD uses its own psychometric test plus a structured interview, with three semesters per year.
UQ
Herston
UQ delivers Australia's largest graduate-entry 4-year MD with placements across the Herston, Princess Alexandra, Royal Brisbane, Mater, and Gold Coast clinical schools, plus rural and Ochsner (New Orleans) international pathways, distinguished by scale, hospital breadth, and translational research depth.
Griffith
Gold Coast
Griffith delivers a 4-year graduate MD on the Gold Coast, co-located with Gold Coast University Hospital, with placements extending across Logan, Toowoomba, and rural clinical sites, distinguished by hospital-integrated training from year 1 and a strong primary care focus.
JCU
Townsville
JCU's 6-year undergraduate MBBS trains doctors for tropical, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across northern Australia and the western Pacific, with placements anchored in Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, Mount Isa, and Thursday Island, distinguished by a no-aptitude-test selection model and a tropical/rural workforce mission.
Bond
Gold Coast
Bond runs Australia's only private medical program — an accelerated ~4.5-year Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine on a three-semester calendar at the Robina campus, distinguished by two intakes per year (May + September), a full-fee structure with no BMP, and a Bond-specific psychometric selection process.