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.
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How UQ interviews applicants.
UQ uses an 8-station MMI. Stations run 8 minutes each with a 2-minute reading window and cover ethical reasoning, communication, motivation, teamwork, and current-issue debates. Interviews are typically held at the Herston Health Sciences precinct or delivered virtually. UQ has Australia's largest MD intake so logistics run across multiple days.
UQ runs Australia's largest 4-year graduate-entry MD (~470 places), anchored across the Herston Health Sciences precinct and the Princess Alexandra, Royal Brisbane, Mater, and Gold Coast clinical schools. The Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans offers an internationally co-badged pathway. Pre-interview ranking is a weighted GAMSAT + GPA composite; the MMI and MSA together carry significant weight in the final offer composite.
UQ's scale means the MMI is heavily logistics-driven — practise the format with the actual cadence (8 minutes per station, 2-minute reading window). Have a clear, defensible answer for whether you would consider the Ochsner pathway and why. UQ examiners value range — pulling examples across teaching hospitals, rural placement, and international health plays well.
Two questions our tutors flagged as a strong fit for UQ’s interview style. Try answering them out loud, then open Prometheus for the model answers and follow-up tips.
Consider the quote: 'Justice without mercy is tyranny; mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.' In five minutes, discuss what this means in the context of medical practice, drawing on a specific clinical or ethical example.
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Australia has one of the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population worldwide, concentrated in northern Australia. Why, and what is the END RHD strategy?
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