Admission requirements

Selection process for all applicants

The medicine course at Monash University is only available to:

• current Year 12 students or
• applicants who have completed VCE (or equivalent) no more than two years previously and have not undertaken any tertiary studies since then.

Prerequisites for students in Year 12

VTAC application procedures

Students studying Year 12 are required to obtain a study score of at least 30 in English and Chemistry.

These are the only prerequisites

All applicants (other than international applicants) are required to sit an aptitude test. The UMAT (Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test) is the aptitude test required for admission to the Monash undergraduate-entry MBBS course.

The UMAT examination is usually conducted in late July. See the UMAT website for registration and examination details

Selection into the Extended Rural Cohort stream of the medical course will be based upon a combination of the applicant UMAT, ENTER and performance at a Multiple Mini interview. The interview is an equally important component of the selection process.

VTAC application procedures

The VTAC Guide, containing information about application procedures, is published annually in August by the:

Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre
40 Park Street, South Melbourne,
VIC 3205
Telephone: 1300 364 133
Applications must be submitted to VTAC during August or September.

Interviews

Applicants who have met the prerequisites will be called for an interview between 24 November and 17 December 2010, with pre-selection based on the overall UMAT score. In addition, applicants for the Dean's Rural List will also be interviewed at this time.

Applicants will be advised of the location of interviews. Interviews will be conducted at the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Wellington Road, Clayton.

The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences will determine those applicants who are to be interviewed.

Final selection

The final ranked list of applicants from which places will be offered will take into account the applicant’s UMAT score, ENTER and performance at interview.

Multiple Mini Interview

The Multiple Mini interview will consist of 8 sequential ‘stations’ plus 1 rest station. In each station the applicant will be interviewed by 1 interviewer for 8 minutes followed by 2 minutes for scoring/changeover (i.e. 10 minutes per station). Each ‘circuit’ of 9 stations will take 90 minutes to complete.

The interview station scenarios and associated questions have been designed to determine which applicants have the relevant personal qualities such as leadership ability and motivation to succeed in the medical course.

More information on the MMI process will be released later in 2010 as the structure and content of the interview are currently under review.

Health requirements and police checks

The faculty has an Immunisation and Infection Risk Policy and students are required to comply with a number of recommendations and procedures to enable them to proceed through the course with an acceptably low level of risk.

A satisfactory police check is also required for each student.

Student Registration

All MBBS students must be registered with the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria in order to have access to clinical placements. The faculty will advise students on the procedure as part of the enrolment process.