2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine in Wollongong, NSW runs a graduate-entry medicine program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: GAMSAT and CASPer. Published hurdles: GAMSAT — minimum 50 overall, no section below 50. Wollongong holds multiple mini interviews (MMI). Decisions for 2027 entry: October 2026.
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Read the guide →Case-based learning + Integrated, 4 years (graduate entry), placements in Illawarra, Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands and rural NSW.
See the course →Wollongong's 4-year graduate MD trains doctors for regional and rural NSW built around a single 12-month longitudinal integrated clerkship (Phase 3) that every domestic student spends in a regional or rural location, delivered from three campuses (Wollongong, Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands) and eight rural hubs across UOW's named training regions: the Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands, Illawarra, Murrumbidgee, Clarence Valley, Northern Rivers, Central West and Outback regions of NSW.
Wollongong was established with an explicit rural and regional workforce mission. A minimum of 55 of the 94 domestic places for 2027 entry are ring-fenced for the Rural Entry Pathway — 32 of the 54 Rural-Regional Combined Track places, 6 of the 10 Health Access Stream places and 17 of the 30 Rural End-to-End places.
UOW's bonus guide puts the realised figure higher: "generally 60-80% of students in each cohort come from a rural background."
UOW also runs a NSW Rural Resident Interview Guarantee: applicants with demonstrated rural origin in NSW who select UOW first in GEMSAS and meet all minimum admission requirements are guaranteed an interview — but only if they also apply for Bonus 1 and Bonus 8 on the UOW MD Admissions Bonus Form and nominate for the guarantee under Bonus 8.
Year 3 includes a longitudinal integrated clerkship in a regional/rural community.
Integrated curriculum. 4-year graduate MD. Four-year graduate MD, each academic year about 42 weeks. Phase 1 (18 months) is campus-based with some community placements, at Wollongong, Shoalhaven or Southern Highlands (Rural End-to-End students are based at Shoalhaven or Southern Highlands). Phase 2 (12 months) covers a range of clinical disciplines.
Phase 3 is a 12-month integrated clinical clerkship that every domestic student spends in a regional or rural location, with UOW stating "70% of students undertake this clinical placement rurally". Phase 4 (final 6 months) comprises 18 weeks of clinical placement — a 6-week elective, a 6-week selective and a 6-week pre-internship (PRINT) term.
For 2027 entry, GPA and GAMSAT are pure qualifying hurdles, but Casper is not: Casper is combined 50/50 with the UOW MD Admissions bonuses to rank applicants for interview offers. Place offers are then ranked 70% interview score + 30% admissions bonuses, with GPA, GAMSAT and Casper excluded from that formula.
The 12 bonuses are equally weighted and cumulative: UOW first preference; registered health professionals; service commitment; sustained work experience; rural work experience; rural high school education; Illawarra local resident MM1; NSW rural resident MM2-MM7; UOW graduate; UOW graduate + academic excellence (requires weighted GPA 6.5+); Indigenous health graduate; financial disadvantage.
Wollongong is strong in these research areas:
Format: Live online Multiple Mini Interview (8 stations, live interviewers) — 2027 entry
Wollongong runs a live online, 8-station MMI with live interviewers. Neither UOW nor GEMSAS publishes a per-station duration.
Interviews are "blueprinted to assess areas such as communication skills, empathetic and ethical approach, reflective manner, teamwork, and decision-making skills in clinical and community contexts", and UOW adds that "important principles such as the delivery of health care to rural, regional and remote communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health will also be assessed".
UoW examiners specifically probe rural/regional commitment given the program's placement footprint Teaching runs across three campuses (Wollongong, Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands) and eight rural hubs. UOW states its "education/training sites currently include the Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands, Illawarra, Murrumbidgee, Clarence Valley, Northern Rivers, Central West, and Outback regions of NSW".
Placement location is allocated by the Graduate School of Medicine — students do not choose, and "all students must be prepared to, and able to, relocate to any allocated GSM clinical teaching site across rural NSW".
2027 cycle: 37 Unbonded CSP + 30 CSP Rural End-to-End + 27 BMP + 15 International = ~109 total (GEMSAS UOW).
University of Wollongong Graduate School of Medicine was founded in 2007 and is based in Wollongong.
Programmes offered:
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Try the AI interviewer| Entry pathway | Graduate entry |
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| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 overall, no section below 50 |
| Interview format | Multiple mini interviews (MMI) |
| Intake | 2027 cycle: 37 Unbonded CSP + 30 CSP Rural End-to-End + 27 BMP + 15 International = ~109 total (GEMSAS UOW) |
| Decisions (2027 entry) | October 2026 |
| Admission overview | Bachelor degree (AQF7+, at least 3 years FTE) with a weighted GPA of 5.5/7.0 or above at the time of interview selection — a minimum-eligibility hurdle, not a competitive score; UOW publishes no competitive GPA. GEMSAS weighting: final year x3, final-1 x2, final-2 x1. GAMSAT minimum 50 overall with no section below 50 (international applicants may instead use MCAT 495 overall, no section below 123). Casper required. 8-station live online MMI. Rural Entry and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathways available. |
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| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 overall, no section below 50. Minimum 50 overall with no individual section score below 50. For 2027 entry GAMSAT is a pure qualifying hurdle: "GAMSAT score will not be used in ranking for interview or place offers once the hurdle has been met." International applicants may substitute MCAT (495 overall, no section below 123). |
| CASPer | Required, and for 2027 entry it is half of the interview-selection score, not a hurdle. Applicants who clear the GPA (weighted 5.5/7.0) and GAMSAT hurdles are ranked for interview offers on an algorithm of 50% Casper score + 50% UOW MD Admissions bonuses. UOW sets "a minimum eligible Casper score ... annually, reflecting the application cohort" and does not publish the figure; an applicant with no valid Casper score is ineligible regardless of other results. Casper is NOT carried into the place-offer ranking, which is 70% interview score + 30% admissions bonuses. |
| GPA | Accurate as far as it goes, but two published conditions are missing: offers to applicants finishing a degree in 2026 are "conditional on maintenance of the minimum required weighted GPA of 5.5", and qualifying degrees used in the GPA calculation "must be completed by 23 December 2026". There is also a ten-year currency-of-qualification rule that can render an applicant ineligible for both interview and place. |
| Place types | 2027 cycle: 37 Unbonded CSP + 30 CSP Rural End-to-End + 27 BMP + 15 International = ~109 total. |
| Indigenous pathway | A standalone Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pathway — applied for either direct to UOW (no application fee; 2 March–31 August 2026 for 2027 entry) or through GEMSAS (1–29 May 2026, fees apply). Applicants are not required to sit GAMSAT or Casper. Requirements are the weighted GPA 5.5/7.0 hurdle plus a certified Confirmation of Aboriginality (or a witnessed Commonwealth statutory declaration with supporting evidence; state/territory and unwitnessed myGov declarations are not accepted). Applicants who meet the GPA hurdle and provide that certified confirmation "will be offered an interview place". Selection then involves TWO interviews: the 8-station live online MMI, and a UOW GSM Community Interview with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and UOW staff, run in rounds from late March to late September. UOW aims for 15% of places in each of the Rural-Regional Combined Track, the Health Access Stream and the Rural End-to-End Track to be filled from this pathway. |
| Bonded / rural | UOW is the only NSW medical school awarded Commonwealth funding in 2024 for a rural end-to-end program. Combined Track (54 places): min. 32 Rural Entry Pathway; End-to-End Track (30 places): min. 17 Rural Entry Pathway; Health Access Stream (10 places): min. 6 Rural Entry Pathway. Eligibility: 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years in MMM2-7 NSW location. |
| Specialities offered | Rural Medicine, Regional Health, General Practice, Indigenous Health |
| Format | Live online Multiple Mini Interview (8 stations, live interviewers) — 2027 entry |
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| Interview window (2027 entry) | September — 2027 entry: the week commencing 17 September 2026, with interview offers released in early September. (International and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway applicants are interviewed in rolling rounds from late March to late September instead.) |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | October 2026 |
| Post-interview chances | UOW does not publish interview-to-offer conversion, and no Tier-1 source supports a numeric figure. GEMSAS does record one qualitative pattern: "In the past, the majority of eligible Rural Entry Pathway applicants who selected the UOW MD program as their first preference in their GEMSAS application were successful in interviewing and receiving an offer to study medicine at UOW." That statement is specific to rural-origin first-preference applicants and is not a published conversion rate. |
Wollongong's longitudinal integrated clerkship is genuinely distinctive — examiners probe whether you understand what it means to spend a year embedded in one community rather than rotating wards. Practise articulating why continuity-of-care training appeals to you, not just "I like rural medicine". Two mechanical steps decide more UOW outcomes than the interview itself. First, rank UOW first in GEMSAS — it is Bonus 1, and first preference is a condition of the NSW Rural Resident Interview Guarantee. Second, submit the UOW MD Admissions Bonus Form by 5:00 PM AEST on 15 June 2026 for 2027 entry: "Late submissions will not be accepted under any circumstances." Use one witnessed Commonwealth statutory declaration with a separate numbered paragraph per bonus. Rural NSW applicants must also actively tick Bonus 1 and Bonus 8 and nominate for the interview guarantee under Bonus 8 — it is not applied automatically. Bonuses are 50% of the interview-selection score and 30% of the place-offer score.
Two questions our tutors flagged as a strong fit for Wollongong’s interview style. Try answering them out loud, then open Prometheus for the model answers and follow-up tips.
The University of Wollongong's Doctor of Medicine places every student in a regional or rural community for a full year of longitudinal clinical training, rather than rotating them through city hospitals. Why do you think the programme is designed this way?
Likely follow-up · What is a longitudinal integrated clerkship, and how does it differ from rotation-based clinical training?
Consider the quote: 'Justice without mercy is tyranny; mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.' What does this mean in the context of medical practice? Illustrate your answer with a specific clinical or ethical example.
Likely follow-up · How do these concepts apply to triage in an overwhelmed emergency department?
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