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Admission
The ANU Medical School offers a four-year graduate-entry Medical Degree. Students who successfully complete four years of fulltime study will graduate with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).
Eighty Australian government-funded places are available to Australian and New Zealand citizens and Australian permanent residents. Two places are set aside annually for Indigenous students, although Indigenous student may apply for general admission.
Up to eighteen of the eighty students admitted annually will enter a Rural Stream that will provide rural education experiences in south-eastern New South Wales throughout the four-year course. The focal point of these experiences will be in the third year: students will complete their entire Year 3 of study in regional centres surrounding
Canberra, attached to the regions general practices, but also working with regional specialists. This track will be supported by appropriate IT experiences in local hospitals and weekly structured teaching activities. A current driver’s licence and a motor vehicle will be necessary.
Of the eighty Australian Commonwealth-supported places at the Medical School, three must be filled by applicants who take up Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships (MRBS), and twenty must be filled by applicants who take up Bonded Medical Places (BMP). Both types of places are only available to Australian citizens or permanent residents.
Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships represent an Australian government initiative to encourage doctors to take up positions in rural areas of Australia after completion of basic medical training and postgraduate training. Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships are suitable for students admitted to the Rural Stream but are not restricted to such students. Details of scholarships are available at: http://www.health.gov.au/mrbscholarships.
Bonded Medical places have been set up by the Australian government to provide health care in areas where there is a workforce shortage. Further details of this scheme can be obtained from http://www.health.gov.au/bmpscheme.
The ANU may also admit up to twenty full fee-paying international students.
Admission will generally require a recently completed Bachelors degree but high achieving school leavers may gain provisional entry. More information on all routes of entry is provided within Admission Information, under the following headings:
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