Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Entry Level
Graduate
Location
Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Duration
4 years
Important Dates
GEMAS Application Due as per this website, if choosing Standard Entry Pathway
Please email the contacts listed on the Notre Dame Aboriginal Alternative Entry Pathway webpage here.
Indigenous Entry Pathway
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders students are able to apply for entry into medicine at Notre Dame, Fremantle via:
The Standard Entry Pathway: students can apply for entry to medicine via the GEMSAS process. Details are available on the University website. or:
The Indigenous Entry Pathway: The SoMF provides an alternative entry pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. Interested students will need to complete the Application For Entry Into Medicine at The University Of Notre Dame Australia (for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People) application form, found here.
University
The University of Notre Dame - Fremantle
School of Medicine – Fremantle
47 Henry St
The University of Notre Dame
Fremantle WA 6160
Australia
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Overview
The MD at Notre Dame, Fremantle is a 4 year graduate entry program. This course produces graduates with a wide variety of medical skills who are able to satisfy the community’s expectations of its doctors, including the ability to: communicate effectively with patients and their families; work effectively with other health professionals; act ethically for their patients’ good, and the public good, and with the capacity to recognise conflict between these interests; and monitor their own performance and to continuously improve through ongoing educational and personal development.
The Notre Dame School of Medicine, Fremantle (SoMF) learning program is Problem Based Learning in the first two years and includes clinical skills, basic and clinical sciences, communication, bioethics, therapeutics, rural placements and an expanding Aboriginal health curriculum. In years 3 and 4 students study different disciplines of medicine e.g. surgery, paediatrics etc. They complete 8-9 week discipline-based rotations, usually in a hospital setting.
Admissions
Entry Level
Graduate
Graduate entry courses are bachelor degree or Masters level courses that you can’t enter straight from school. You can only study them if you already have a degree. For medicine in Australia, and depending on the university, this degree can be either be in any field or must be a specific bachelors degree. Graduate entry medical degrees are shorter than undergraduate medical courses. The reason they’re shorter is that the university can assume that you’ve already developed the ability to learn effectively at university level and that you have an understanding of the basic sciences.
The SoMF offers a four year graduate entry MD degree and applicants will need to have successfully completed an undergraduate university degree prior to entry into medicine.
Entry Criteria
Based on the submitted application, prior academic achievement and outcome of a structured interview.
Preparation Course
A one week intensive Premedicine prepartion program offered in December for commencing Aboriginal students.
Pathways
Indigenous Entry Pathway
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders students are able to apply for entry into medicine at Notre Dame, Fremantle via:
The Standard Entry Pathway: details are available on the ND website , or:
The Indigenous Entry Pathway: The SoMF provides an alternative entry pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Interested students complete the Application For Entry Into Medicine at The University Of Notre Dame Australia (for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander People) application form, which is available on-line via the Indigenous portal on the Notre Dame website – or from the SoMF (fremantle.medicine@nd.edu.au or admissions@nd.edu.au) and submit it along with evidence of their prior educational achievement such as their undergraduate degree or academic transcript.
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