Doctor of Medicine (NSW)
School of Medicine
Are you curious about medical research or clinical practice? The Doctor of Medicine of The University of Notre Dame Australia is a four-year postgraduate degree accredited by the Medical Board of Australia on the recommendation of the Australian Medical Council. You will undertake clinical placements in the third and fourth year in various settings, including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals, general practice, and community-based services in urban and rural areas across Australia. Extend your medical career today.
Program information for 2026:
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Why study this degree?
As the only medical program offered by a Catholic university in Australia, the Doctor of Medicine aims to develop and train caring and ethical doctors imbued with the values of compassion, respect, and service. All students at Notre Dame undertake a Core Curriculum component of the study that involves an exploration of bioethics in the first year of the program.
The first and second years of your studies provide a solid foundation for your medical degree. You will have the opportunity to undertake problem-based learning tutorials conducted by medically-qualified tutors, clinical and communication skills sessions, workshops, clinical debriefing tutorials and site visits. In the second year, you will begin to work on a research-based or professionally-focused project on one of 10 themes: Clinical Science, Bioethics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Rural Medicine or Medical Leadership and Health Policy.
In the third year, you will undertake a series of clinical placements in in hospitals and community settings where you will engage with patients, their families and the healthcare professionals caring for them. This strong focus on experiential learning is further complemented by a series of weekly 'Back-to-Base Days', in which you will return to your principal Clinical School for short case tutorials, grand rounds, journal club sessions and expert guest lectures.
Your fourth and final year will see you complete further clinical placements. You will explore a range of disciplines in a range of health settings and present your project for examination in the Applied Research Project course of study. Following the fourth-year end-of-year examinations, you will commence a four-week elective learning period where you can extend your medical knowledge in an area of personal interest.
Essential elements of our Medical postgraduate degree include:
- Access to innovative clinical skills training
- Learning from clinical academics who are experts in their fields
- Aboriginal health, rural and remote placements
- A problem-based learning curriculum delivered in small groups in years one and two
- Clinical placements in both the public and private sector hospitals in years three and four
- A liberal arts education in bioethics
- Applied research project in an area of interest to you
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Program summary
Year One
- Foundations of a Medical Vocation
Year Two
- Foundations of Clinical Practice
Year Three
- Apprenticeships in Clinical Practice
Year Four
- Preparation for Internship
Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.
More information regarding courses can be found at the course descriptions page.
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Entry requirements
Admission to the Doctor of Medicine (MD) program is currently only available to Australian citizens, Australian permanent humanitarian visa holders, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens.
International students please select international at the top of the page for relevant information on international admission.
Domestic applicants are required to apply for admission via GEMSAS. Full admission requirements will be published in the GEMSAS Guide each year. Applicants should refer to this guide for further details before applying.
Applicants for the Doctor of Medicine will be selected for admission based on the following criteria:
- Bachelor’s degree (recognised by the Australian Qualifications Framework or the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition Guide) within the last 10 years, or be in the final year of a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
- GAMSAT
- Grade Point Average
- Casper score from the online Situational Judgement Test (see key dates). For more information on Casper and how to register for the tests, refer directly to https://acuityinsights.app/
- Interview: The School of Medicine uses an online Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format.
As a guide, interview offers for the Doctor of Medicine at Notre Dame Sydney in the 2025 intake had an average GPA and GAMSAT as shown in the table below.
Campus
Interview average
Place offer average
GPA
GAMSAT
GPA
GAMSAT
2024
6.68
67.84
6.74
67.79
2025
6.76
68.08
Please note that interview places also take into account other factors, including Casper and bonus points. Place offers additionally take into account interview scores. Average GPA and GAMSAT scores do not include applicants who were considered on additional criteria, including but not limited to, rurality, and facilitated interview pathway eligibility.
Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training (KCRMT)
The KCRMT commenced in 2025 as a new end to end (four-year) medical program for up to 20 students. It is designed to increase access to the MD for students from rural communities and build a future medical workforce, particularly for the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, and provide students with the opportunity to complete all their medical training in regional WA. This Rural Training Scheme is only available via the Fremantle Campus. Further information on the Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training. can also be found on the Notre Dame website.
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Learning outcomes
Clinical Practice: the medical graduate as practitioner
- Listen and respond effectively and acceptably to patients, their family/carers, doctors, and other health professionals.
- Elicit, and record legibly, an accurate, organised and problem-focussed medical history, including family and social occupational and lifestyle features, from the patient, and other sources.
- Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or an organ/system/problem-focussed examination, as indicated, and record the findings legibly and unambiguously.
- Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including relevant differential diagnoses.
- Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken, and evaluate their outcomes.
- Select and justify common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness.
- Interpret the results and confirm or modify clinical decisions and actions appropriately.
- Select, justify, and perform safely a defined range of procedures.
- Make clinical judgments and decisions based on the available evidence.
- Alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience, identify and justify relevant management options.
- Elicit patients’ questions and their views, concerns, and preferences, promote rapport, and ensure patients’ full understanding of their problem(s).
- Involve patients in decision-making and planning their treatment, including communicating risks and benefits of management options.
- Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, (and confirm their understanding) to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options.
- Undertake clinical practice which integrates prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic disease management wherever relevant.
- Prescribe medications safely, effectively, and economically, based on objective evidence.
- Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents.
- Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care and initiate that care.
- Perform common emergency and life support procedures safely, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR to an accepted standard.
- Care compassionately for patients at the end of life, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support, and other components of palliative care.
- Undertake care which places the safety of patients and their needs at its centre.
- Practise safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reporting and effective clinical handover.
- Retrieve, interpret and record information accurately and effectively in health data systems, and in conducting and reporting research (both paper and electronic).
Professionalism and Leadership: the medical graduate as a professional and a leader
- Provide care to all patients according to the guidelines: “Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia”.
- Behave in ways which demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy, and respect for all patients.
- Show integrity, honesty, leadership, initiative, professionalism and partnership to patients, the profession and society.
- Conduct clinical practice according to the principles of ethical practice.
- Communicate effectively about ethical issues with patients, family, and other healthcare professionals.
- Identify the risks posed to patients by the graduate’s own health.
- Mitigate the health risks of professional practice by taking effective action on factors that affect the graduate’s own personal health and wellbeing, including fatigue, stress management and infection control.
- Recognise their own health needs, and when to consult and follow the advice of a health professional.
- Practise in ways that demonstrate respect for the boundaries that define professional and therapeutic relationships.
- Identify and act appropriately on the options available when personal values or beliefs may influence patient care, including the obligation to refer to another practitioner.
- Respect the roles and expertise of other healthcare professionals.
- Learn and work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team.
- Self-evaluate their own professional practice through reflection and demonstrate lifelong learning behaviours.
- Demonstrate fundamental skills in educating colleagues.
- Recognise the limits of their own expertise and involve other professionals as needed to contribute to patient care.
- Fulfil the fundamental legal responsibilities of health professionals, especially those relating to ability to complete relevant certificates and documents, informed consent, duty of care to patients and colleagues, privacy, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and notification.
- Act ethically and openly where there may be financial and / or other conflicts of interest.
- Understand the specific issues associated with ethical practice associated with research, in particular with vulnerable and/or specific groups or minorities.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project according to established ethical principles and justify those principles.
Science and Scholarship: the medical graduate as scientist and scholar
- Justify clinical decisions and actions by reference to established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences.
- Justify decisions and actions in respect of individual patients, populations, and health systems by reference to core medical and scientific knowledge.
- Make diagnostic and management decisions based on accurate knowledge of the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history, and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life.
- Access, critically appraise, interpret, and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature to clinical decisions and actions, and in the practice of research.
- Formulate relevant research questions and select appropriate study designs based on knowledge of common scientific methods.
- Undertake evidence-based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge, striving to achieve a level of excellence.
- Summarise, document, report and reflect on the progress of a project in a team setting.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project under supervision with a degree of independence that shows self-reliance, the exercise of project planning skills, judgment, and flexibility.
Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate
- Protect and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and populations.
- Act on, and explain how issues such as health inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors, influence the health, illness, disease, and success of treatment of populations.
- Communicate effectively in wider roles including leadership, advocacy, teaching, assessing, appraising and research
- Act in ways which acknowledge the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of health and health experiences.
- Communicate effectively and in a culturally competent fashion with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain and justify common population health screening and prevention approaches, and the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring the health status of populations.
- Advocate for healthy lifestyle choices, based on explanations of environmental and lifestyle health risks.
- Implement a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care.
- Critically appraise the extent to which individual, community and national health needs are met by the existing roles and relationships between health agencies and services.
- Evaluate the extent to which the principles of efficient, equitable and sustainable allocation of finite resources are applied in meeting individual, community, and national health needs.
- Understand the organisation of the national systems of health care, including the Aboriginal community-controlled health sector, in order to be an effective professional.
- Advocate for equitable health care for all Australians, and in particular for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain how global health issues and determinants of health and disease impact on health care delivery in other countries, and in particular in Australia and the broader Western Pacific Region.
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Entry pathways
For information regarding alternative entry and facilitated interview pathways, please visit Pathways to Medicine.
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Key dates for Doctor of Medicine 2026 entry
Date Entry Events 1 May 2025 GEMSAS Applications open 5pm AEST/3pm AWST 30 May 2025 GEMSAS Applications close Early September Offers of interviews made Mid September (TBC) Interviews Early November Offers of places made January 2026 (TBC) Classes commence Casper Testing Dates
UNDA MD domestic applicants for the admissions cycle:- Thursday 20 March - 5:00PM AEDT
- Wednesday 30 April - 7:00PM AEST
- Thursday 22 May - 7:00PM AEST
- Thursday 5 June - 7:00PM AEDT
Please see the GEMSAS website for further details on admission requirements for the Doctor of Medicine.
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Practical component
Clinical Placements and rural work experiences are included in this program. Students are to complete all clinical placements including after-hours work and attend all rural experiences.
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Career opportunities
A Doctor of Medicine degree can lead to many career opportunities depending on your area of specialisation or interest. Careers include Medical practitioners, cardiologists, physiologists, obstetricians, gastroenterologists, neurologists, and oncologists.
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Real-world experience
As with all our degrees, the Doctor of Medicine places a strong emphasis on practical training and experiential learning. Throughout the four years of your study you will undertake clinical placements in a variety of settings including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals and general practice.
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Professional accreditation
The Doctor of Medicine (MD) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council as meeting national standards of medical education, permitting graduates to receive provisional registration and become a junior doctor (also known as a doctor-in-training) and enter the medical workforce.
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Scholarships
Scholarships provide financial support to students while they are completing their studies. There are various scholarships available to prospective and current students, across all study levels and campuses.
These can be funded by Notre Dame, industry, individuals and non-profit organisations, to provide financial assistance to students to support costs associated with study. This could include buying food, paying rent, transport, and household bills, raising children as single parents, being a single-income household, becoming unemployed or caring for a sick loved one.
Please visit the Scholarships Finder to see which scholarships are available to Postgraduate students.
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Fees and costs
This Program has the following loan scheme(s) available for eligible students:
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP)
A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) is a place at a university where the Australian Government pays part of your fees. This part is a subsidy, not a loan, and you don’t have to pay it back. However, this subsidy does not cover the entire cost of your study. Students must pay the rest, which is called the ‘student contribution amount’.In a Commonwealth Supported Place, your fees are subsidised by the Australian Government. Your fees will be split into two portions:
The Commonwealth contribution, which is the portion paid by the Australian Government.
The student contribution, which is the portion you pay. You may choose to pay upfront or defer your student contribution with a HECS-HELP Loan. The HECS-HELP loan scheme assists eligible students with the payment of all, or part, of their tuition fees, not including additional study costs such as accommodation or textbooks. Your HECS-HELP debt will be indexed each year in line with the Consumer Price Index.
Eligible students will be offered a CSP – you do not need to apply.
For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and our online calculator, visit our Fees, costs and scholarships page.
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More information
Considering your uni options?
Our advisors provide support while choosing a program of study and completing our application process.If you need advice about studying at Notre Dame, the Prospective Students Office can help. Talk to one of our career advisors for a personalised advice session.
Phone: 1800 878 916
Email: sydney@nd.edu.au
Address: 128-140 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW 2008
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Why study this degree?
As the only medical program offered by a Catholic university in Australia, the Doctor of Medicine aims to develop and train caring and ethical doctors imbued with the values of compassion, respect, and service. All students at Notre Dame undertake a Core Curriculum component of the study that involves an exploration of bioethics in the first year of the program.
The first and second years of your studies provide a solid foundation for your medical degree. You will have the opportunity to undertake problem-based learning tutorials conducted by medically-qualified tutors, clinical and communication skills sessions, workshops, clinical debriefing tutorials and site visits. In the second year, you will begin to work on a research-based or professionally-focused project on one of 10 themes: Clinical Science, Bioethics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Rural Medicine or Medical Leadership and Health Policy.
In the third year, you will undertake a series of clinical placements in in hospitals and community settings where you will engage with patients, their families and the healthcare professionals caring for them. This strong focus on experiential learning is further complemented by a series of weekly 'Back-to-Base Days', in which you will return to your principal Clinical School for short case tutorials, grand rounds, journal club sessions and expert guest lectures.
Your fourth and final year will see you complete further clinical placements. You will explore a range of disciplines in a range of health settings and present your project for examination in the Applied Research Project course of study. Following the fourth-year end-of-year examinations, you will commence a four-week elective learning period where you can extend your medical knowledge in an area of personal interest.
Essential elements of our Medical postgraduate degree include:
- Access to innovative clinical skills training
- Learning from clinical academics who are experts in their fields
- Aboriginal health, rural and remote placements
- A problem-based learning curriculum delivered in small groups in years one and two
- Clinical placements in both the public and private sector hospitals in years three and four
- A liberal arts education in bioethics
- Applied research project in an area of interest to you
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Program summary
Year One
- Foundations of a Medical Vocation
Year Two
- Foundations of Clinical Practice
Year Three
- Apprenticeship in Clinical Practice
Year Four
- Preparation for Internship
- Applied Research Project
Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.
More information regarding courses can be found at the course descriptions page.
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Entry requirements for international applicants
International Applicants will be selected for admission based on the following criteria:
- A Bachelor’s degree that has been recognised as equivalent to an Australian Bachelor’s degree, AQF Level 7 and which has been taught and assessed in English within the last 10 years, or to be in the final year of an eligible Bachelor’s degree.
- An overall weighted Grade Point Average of 5.2 or higher on a 7 point scale, calculated from the applicant’s most recent three years of undergraduate study.
- Unweighted GAMSAT Score of at least 50 (in all sections and overall) or overall MCAT score of at least 500.
- The School of Medicine uses a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format, these interviews will be conducted online. For the online version of the MMI, you will be asked several separate interview questions. The interview will be recorded with the use of an online interviewing software tool.
At Notre Dame, we welcome international students to our community and our various campuses across Australia.
For general information about becoming an international student at Notre Dame, please visit International students.
To apply, and for details of required documentation, please see How To Apply: International students.
If you have any questions, contact the International Students Office.How to apply
International applicants for the Doctor of Medicine are required to submit the following*:
- Completed international application form
- Certified copies of academic transcripts
- Certified proof of English language proficiency
- Certified copies of GAMSAT or MCAT results
- Additional documents as outlined in the international application form
*International applicants should apply directly to the University, not through GEMSAS
Applications can be submitted online at www.notredame.edu.au/forms/apply
Contact us
Contact the International Office at international@nd.edu.au
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Learning outcomes
Clinical Practice: the medical graduate as practitioner
- Listen and respond effectively and acceptably to patients, their family/carers, doctors, and other health professionals.
- Elicit, and record legibly, an accurate, organised and problem-focussed medical history, including family and social occupational and lifestyle features, from the patient, and other sources.
- Perform a full and accurate physical examination, including a mental state examination, or an organ/system/problem-focussed examination, as indicated, and record the findings legibly and unambiguously.
- Integrate and interpret findings from the history and examination, to arrive at an initial assessment including relevant differential diagnoses.
- Discriminate between possible differential diagnoses, justify the decisions taken, and evaluate their outcomes.
- Select and justify common investigations, with regard to the pathological basis of disease, utility, safety and cost effectiveness.
- Interpret the results and confirm or modify clinical decisions and actions appropriately.
- Select, justify, and perform safely a defined range of procedures.
- Make clinical judgments and decisions based on the available evidence.
- Alone or in conjunction with colleagues, according to level of training and experience, identify and justify relevant management options.
- Elicit patients’ questions and their views, concerns, and preferences, promote rapport, and ensure patients’ full understanding of their problem(s).
- Involve patients in decision-making and planning their treatment, including communicating risks and benefits of management options.
- Provide information to patients, and family/carers where relevant, (and confirm their understanding) to enable them to make a fully informed choice among various diagnostic, therapeutic and management options.
- Undertake clinical practice which integrates prevention, early detection, health maintenance and chronic disease management wherever relevant.
- Prescribe medications safely, effectively, and economically, based on objective evidence.
- Safely administer other therapeutic agents including fluid, electrolytes, blood products and selected inhalational agents.
- Recognise and assess deteriorating and critically unwell patients who require immediate care and initiate that care.
- Perform common emergency and life support procedures safely, including caring for the unconscious patient and performing CPR to an accepted standard.
- Care compassionately for patients at the end of life, avoiding unnecessary investigations or treatment, and ensuring physical comfort including pain relief, psychosocial support, and other components of palliative care.
- Undertake care which places the safety of patients and their needs at its centre.
- Practise safety skills including infection control, graded assertiveness, adverse event reporting and effective clinical handover.
- Retrieve, interpret and record information accurately and effectively in health data systems, and in conducting and reporting research (both paper and electronic).
Professionalism and Leadership: the medical graduate as a professional and a leader
- Provide care to all patients according to the guidelines: “Good Medical Practice: A Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia”.
- Behave in ways which demonstrate professional values including commitment to high quality clinical standards, compassion, empathy, and respect for all patients.
- Show integrity, honesty, leadership, initiative, professionalism and partnership to patients, the profession and society.
- Conduct clinical practice according to the principles of ethical practice.
- Communicate effectively about ethical issues with patients, family, and other healthcare professionals.
- Identify the risks posed to patients by the graduate’s own health.
- Mitigate the health risks of professional practice by taking effective action on factors that affect the graduate’s own personal health and wellbeing, including fatigue, stress management and infection control.
- Recognise their own health needs, and when to consult and follow the advice of a health professional.
- Practise in ways that demonstrate respect for the boundaries that define professional and therapeutic relationships.
- Identify and act appropriately on the options available when personal values or beliefs may influence patient care, including the obligation to refer to another practitioner.
- Respect the roles and expertise of other healthcare professionals.
- Learn and work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team.
- Self-evaluate their own professional practice through reflection and demonstrate lifelong learning behaviours.
- Demonstrate fundamental skills in educating colleagues.
- Recognise the limits of their own expertise and involve other professionals as needed to contribute to patient care.
- Fulfil the fundamental legal responsibilities of health professionals, especially those relating to ability to complete relevant certificates and documents, informed consent, duty of care to patients and colleagues, privacy, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and notification.
- Act ethically and openly where there may be financial and / or other conflicts of interest.
- Understand the specific issues associated with ethical practice associated with research, in particular with vulnerable and/or specific groups or minorities.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project according to established ethical principles and justify those principles.
Science and Scholarship: the medical graduate as scientist and scholar
- Justify clinical decisions and actions by reference to established and evolving biological, clinical, epidemiological, social, and behavioural sciences.
- Justify decisions and actions in respect of individual patients, populations, and health systems by reference to core medical and scientific knowledge.
- Make diagnostic and management decisions based on accurate knowledge of the aetiology, pathology, clinical features, natural history, and prognosis of common and important presentations at all stages of life.
- Access, critically appraise, interpret, and apply evidence from the medical and scientific literature to clinical decisions and actions, and in the practice of research.
- Formulate relevant research questions and select appropriate study designs based on knowledge of common scientific methods.
- Undertake evidence-based practice and the generation of new scientific knowledge, striving to achieve a level of excellence.
- Summarise, document, report and reflect on the progress of a project in a team setting.
- Conduct a research and/ or professionally focused project under supervision with a degree of independence that shows self-reliance, the exercise of project planning skills, judgment, and flexibility.
Health and Society: the medical graduate as a health advocate
- Protect and improve the health and wellbeing of individuals, communities, and populations.
- Act on, and explain how issues such as health inequalities, diversity of cultural, spiritual and community values, and socio-economic and physical environment factors, influence the health, illness, disease, and success of treatment of populations.
- Communicate effectively in wider roles including leadership, advocacy, teaching, assessing, appraising and research
- Act in ways which acknowledge the factors that contribute to the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including history, spirituality and relationship to land, diversity of cultures and communities, epidemiology, social and political determinants of health and health experiences.
- Communicate effectively and in a culturally competent fashion with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain and justify common population health screening and prevention approaches, and the use of technology for surveillance and monitoring the health status of populations.
- Advocate for healthy lifestyle choices, based on explanations of environmental and lifestyle health risks.
- Implement a systems approach to improving the quality and safety of health care.
- Critically appraise the extent to which individual, community and national health needs are met by the existing roles and relationships between health agencies and services.
- Evaluate the extent to which the principles of efficient, equitable and sustainable allocation of finite resources are applied in meeting individual, community, and national health needs.
- Understand the organisation of the national systems of health care, including the Aboriginal community-controlled health sector, in order to be an effective professional.
- Advocate for equitable health care for all Australians, and in particular for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
- Explain how global health issues and determinants of health and disease impact on health care delivery in other countries, and in particular in Australia and the broader Western Pacific Region.
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Key dates for Doctor of Medicine 2025 entry
Start Date End Date Application Period 01/02/24 30/11/24 International Student Interview Ranking 01/04/24 30/11/24 International Medicine Panel Interviews 01/04/24 30/11/24 Mini Multi Interviews (MMI) 01/04/24 30/11/24 Rolling Offers and Interviews 01/05/24 30/11/24 -
Practical component
Clinical Placements and rural work experiences are included in this program. Students are to complete all clinical placements including after-hours work and attend all rural experiences.
Your third and fourth years are clinically-based and present the opportunity to explore the different disciplines of medicine. You will complete discipline-based rotations in a clinical setting.
- Year 3 rotations include: Paediatrics, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, General Practice, Surgery, Medicine, and Psychiatry.
- Year 4 rotations include: General Practice, Surgery, Medicine, ICU - Intensive Care, and ED - Emergency.
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Career opportunities
A Doctor of Medicine degree can lead to many career opportunities depending on your area of specialisation or interest. Careers include General practice, Surgery, Physician, Public health, Medical Education, Medical research, Government departments, Not-for-profit organisations.
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Real-world experience
As with all our degrees, the Doctor of Medicine places a strong emphasis on practical training and experiential learning. Throughout the four years of your study you will undertake clinical placements in a variety of settings, including aged care facilities, public and private hospitals and general practice.
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Professional accreditation
The Doctor of Medicine (MD) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council as meeting national standards of medical education, permitting graduates to receive provisional registration and become a junior doctor (also known as a doctor-in-training) and enter the medical workforce.
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Scholarships
Scholarships provide financial support to students while they are completing their studies. There are various scholarships available to prospective and current students, across all study levels and campuses.
These can be funded by Notre Dame, industry, individuals and non-profit organisations, to provide financial assistance to students to support costs associated with study. This could include buying food, paying rent, transport, and household bills, raising children as single parents, being a single-income household, becoming unemployed or caring for a sick loved one.
Please visit the Scholarships Finder to see which scholarships are available to Postgraduate students.
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Fees and costs
Indicative Fee: $81,000
The figure quoted is the indicative annual fee for 2025 for international students. The exact fee for an individual student will depend on the mix of courses studied. All costs and fees are provided in Australian Dollars (AUD$).
All international enquiries should contact the International Students Office on international@nd.edu.au.
This Program has the following loan scheme(s) available for eligible students:
International Full-Fee Paying
Tuition costs depend on an international student’s study load and discipline. Fees are payable each semester at least four weeks prior to the commencement of your program.For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and our online calculator, visit our Fees, costs and scholarships page.
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More information
Considering your uni options?
Our advisors provide support while choosing a program of study and completing our application process.International students
If you need advice about studying at Notre Dame, fill out our Make an Enquiry form, and you can book a session with one of our friendly International Student Advisors.Fremantle and Broome International Office
Phone: +61 8 9433 0873
Address: 19 Mouat St, Fremantle, WA 6160
Postal address: PO Box 1225, Fremantle WA 6959Sydney and Melbourne International Office
Phone: +61 2 8204 4229
Address: 140 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW 2008
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