Graduate · Biology & Life Sciences
Doctor of Medicine
University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA / Sydney, NSW, Australia
About this program
Notre Dame's MD is a four-year graduate-entry program taught at the Fremantle campus (Sydney also runs the degree), accredited by the Australian Medical Council. The first two years use problem-based learning as the backbone rather than traditional lecture-heavy pre-clinical teaching: small tutorial groups work through clinical cases collaboratively with a facilitator rather than being taught anatomy and physiology in isolation from clinical context.
The distinguishing feature is the rural and community health emphasis: third year is run jointly with UWA through the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, and around a quarter of each cohort can opt into a full year-long placement in a rural WA clinical site instead of the standard rotation structure. Clinical years also include a compulsory rural or remote general practice placement for everyone, not just those on the extended rural track, a genuine point of difference from more metro-focused medical schools.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Years 1-2: Problem-Based Learning case tutorials, basic clinical sciences, population and preventive health, bioethics, therapeutics, clinical skills training
- Year 3: clinical rotations at Perth teaching hospitals, or Rural Clinical School of WA year-long placement for selected students
- Year 4: discipline-based clinical rotations (medicine, surgery, paediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynaecology), rural/remote general practice placement, translational research or clinical audit project
- Accreditation: AMC-accredited, leads to provisional registration and internship
Admissions
Completed bachelor degree in any discipline; GAMSAT average 52+ (min 50 per section) or equivalent, GPA 5.2+, CASPer situational judgement test, and interview