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SYDNEYMEDICAL

SCHOOL

YOUR GUIDE TOMEDICINE 2014


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SYDNEY MEDICALSCHOOLOUR FACULTY

Undergraduate students: 1,211International students: 19.5%

OUR LOCATION

Camperdown Campus; Central,

Northern, Westmead, Concord,

Nepean and Sydney Adentist

Clinical Schools; and the Rural

Clinical Schools in Dubbo, Orange

and Lismore

CONTACT US

T +61 2 9351 3132

F +61 2 9351 3196

E [email protected]

sydney.edu.au/medicine


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Our mission is to improe the healthand wellbeing o people in Australia andelsewhere, by educating and supportingcompassionate clinicians, medical scientists,health proessionals and researchers whose

work dries adances in health.

Across all our education programs, ourision is to deelop caring, clear-thinking,clinically outstanding, research-capable andglobally-engaged graduates who hae the

capabilities to become leaders in medicine,public health and research.

SYDNEY MEDICAL SCHOOLSTUDY 2014


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kEY DATES FOR 2014 ADMISSION

GRADUATE ENTRY

AvAILABLE TO DOMESTIC ANDINTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Duration: 4 years

Degree: MBBS

Entry requirements:

bachelors degree with a credit

aerage or higher

satisactory perormance in a medical

admissions test (GAMSAT only or

domestic students, GAMSAT or MCAT

or international students)

satisactory perormance in an

interiew

SCHOOL ENTRY

AvAILABLE TO A SMALLNUMBER OF DOMESTIC AND

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSDuration: 7 years

Degree:

Bachelor o Medical Science/MBBS

Bachelor o Science (Adanced)/MBBS

Bachelor o Economics/MBBS

Bachelor o Commerce/MBBS

Bachelor o Music Studies/MBBS

Entry requirements:

ery high ATAR (expected to be 99.95

or 2014 entry or most programs or

99.50 or international students) interiew

audition i applicable

ADMISSION (GRADUATE ENTRY)

Domestic students

Apply directly to the Uniersity o

Sydney.International students

Apply directly to the Uniersity o

Sydney or through a registered agent

in your home country.

For more inormation and to iew

application orm, sydney.edu.au/uture-

students

2014 GRADUATE ENTRY TIMELINE

PLEASE NOTE: IT TAkES A FULL YEAR, REFER TO WEBSITE

FOR DETAILS

APRIL

online applications open

APRIL/JUNE

apply direct to Uniersity o Sydney or through

registered agent

JUNE 2

applications close or domestic students

JUNE 28

applications close or international students

JULY

oers o rst round interiews

JULY/AUGUST

rst round interiews held

2014 SCHOOL ENTRY TIMELINE

LATE SEPTEMBER

applications must be submitted

to UAC or

1. Domestic students and

2. International students who are completing year 12

in Australia

3. International students who are undertaking New Zealand

National Certicate o Education Achieement (NCEA)

Leel 3.

International students undertaking the International

Baccalaureate in Australia may apply to UAC or directly to the

Uniersity o Sydney or through a registered agent.

LATE DECEMBERapplications close or all other international students to

apply to the Uniersity, either direct or through one o the

Uniersitys registered agents

IMPORTANT

The latest inormation about the Sydney Medical Program including admission criteria, application and interiew

timelines and all ariations to requirements are published on the Uniersity o Sydney website. Please ALWAYS reer to

the website or detailed and up-to-date inormation. sydney.edu.au/medicine/uture-students


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FSTUDY MEDICINE AT SYDNEY

Sydney Medical Program is a four-year graduate entry course with threeprimary aims for graduates: excellent clinical sills and preparednessfor practice; experience in research; and experience and awarenessof health in an international setting. Years 1 & 2 are spent on the mainuniersity campus at Camperdown, with one day each wee spent inclinical schools. For years 3 & 4, students are based in their clinicalschool. Clinical learning occurs at multiple widely-dispersed siteshospitals and community, metropolitan, urban and rural. The programis accredited by the Australian Medical Council.


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WHY SYDNEY?10 REASONS TO STUDY MEDICINEAT SYDNEY

1. A graduate program with a dierse student community. Students come

rom dierent cultural, academic and proessional backgrounds, proiding a

dynamic and interesting perspectie in tutorials and clinical groups. In 2013,

close to 30 percent o students starting medicine at Sydney had completed

degrees in law, business, arts, music or engineering, with the remainder

haing completed degrees in science, medical sciences, health sciences or

allied health.

2. A curriculum which proides a strong base in medical sciences and clinical

skills, while ostering problem-soling and critical thinking skills.

3. Early immersion in clinical training: students are introduced to the clinical

enironment rom the rst weeks o the program.

4. Excellent clinical training acilities at leading NSW hospitals, urban and rural.

Sydney has clinical schools at Royal North Shore Hospital, Royal Prince

Alred Hospital, Concord Hospital, The Childrens Hospital at Westmead,

Westmead Hospital, Sydney Adentist Hospital, Nepean Hospital, and in the

country, medical students are based at Orange, Dubbo, Broken Hil l

and Lismore Base Hospitals.

5. Outstanding teachers, with many experts in their elds. Sydney academic

sta include leading clinicians and researchers.

6. Integration with research and opportunities or all students to participate

in research. Sydney Medical School is one o Australias leading research

organisations, recognised or the quality and impact o its research.

Students are encouraged to deelop their research skills by participating in

a research project and hae access to a wide array o opportunities.

7. International connections and the opportunity to experience placements in

a wide number o international settings. Sydney has extensie internationalconnections in deeloped and deeloping countries, including many in our

region, and students are encouraged to spend at least some o the time as

a medical student in an international setting.

8. Interaction between students and sta and student participation in

committee and planning orums.

9. An actie student-run society, MedSoc, to unite the student community.

10. Sydney Medical School is consistently ranked among the top medical

schools in the world. In 2012, the School was ranked:

25th in the world in Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health by the Times Higher

Education World Uniersity Rankings (THE).

21st in the world in Lie Sciences and Medicine by the QS World Uniersity

Rankings.


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JOIN US FROM SCHOOL

COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMSADMISSION TO THESE COURSES IS FOR A LIMITED NUMBER OF OUTSTANDING APPLICANTS EACH YEAR.

ALL COMBINED DEGREES ARE 7 YEARS DURATION.

DEGREES

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE/MBBS

The Bachelor o Commerce and Bachelor o Medicine and

Bachelor o Surgery is a combined degree program sequenced

so that successul students proceed rst through the

Bachelor o Commerce degree during which they will be

required to complete science units o study and then on to

the degrees o Bachelor o Medicine and Bachelor o Surgery.

BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS/MBBS

The Bachelor o Economics and Bachelor o Medicine and

Bachelor o Surgery is a unique program which will proide

you with the opportunity to pursue studies in areas that are o

particular releance to the management and conduct o business,

in addition to gaining a proessional qualication in medicine.

The skills you will acquire through the Bachelor o Economics will

benet a number o careers in the medical proession. For example,

doctors in priate practice need to understand the undamentals

o business in order to establish and maintain a thriing practice.

BACHELOR OF MEDICAL SCIENCE/MBBS

The combined Bachelor o Medical Science and Bachelor o

Medicine and Bachelor o Surgery leads to registration as a

general medical practitioner. The course combines the three-

year undergraduate Bachelor o Medical Science course

with the Uniersitys prestigious our-year graduate medical

program. The combination o science and medicine subjects

oers you the opportunity to deelop a strong background in

the sciences, with some exibility or you to study units rom

other aculties.

In your rst three years undertaking the Bachelor o Medical

Science, you will study the basic sciences as well as clinical

sciences. The medical curriculum o the MBBS component

o this degree emphasises practical deliery with much o

the program using problem-based learning with contextually

releant medical issues as the oundation o the course.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE ADvANCED/MBBS

The combined Bachelor o Science (Adanced) and Bachelor o

Medicine and Bachelor o Surgery leads to registration as a general

medical practitioner. It combines the three-year undergraduate

Bachelor o Science (Adanced) course with the Uniersitysprestigious our-year graduate medical program.

The combination o science and medicine subjects oers you

the opportunity to deelop a strong background in the sciences,

with some exibility or you to study units rom other aculties.

BACHELOR OF MUSIC STUDIES/MBBS

The Bachelor o Music Studies unctions as a liberal studies

pathway into the MBBS. You will select a principal study at

the Sydney Conseratorium o Music rom the program in

music studies. You will also complete core music units o study

in music skills, music history and analysis, and perormance.

The degree is completed oer six semesters with a credit

aerage or aboe prior to your commencement in the

Bachelor o Medicine and Bachelor o Surgery. During this

time, you will also complete one preparatory unit o study

in medicine and three units o study in biology, physics and

chemistry rom the program oered by the Faculty o Science.

Thereater, you will study or the degree o Bachelor o

Medicine and Bachelor o Surgery oer our years.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR 2014 ADMISSIONENTRY FROM SCHOOL INTO COMBINEDMEDICAL DEGREES

Students are eligible to apply or the Combined Medicine

Degree Programs at the rst opportunity ater graduating

high school, regardless o when their results are aailable.

Special admission pathways are open to Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander applicants. The required ATAR is expected to be

95 or higher or 2014 entry.

DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

APPLICANTS MUST HAvE:

A ery high ATAR. For students commencing in 2014,

the ATAR is expected to be 99.95 or all courses except

Bachelor o Music Studies/MBBS, which is expected to be

99.50. Students rom outside NSW are conerted to ATAR

equialent scores. International students require an ATAR o

99.50 or international equialent.

Potential students must also hae satisactory perormance

in an interiew.

Music/MBBS applicants must also undertake an audition.


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GRADUATE MEDICAL PROGRAM: MBBSTHIS IS THE MAIN ENTRY PATHWAY FOR STUDENTS STUDYING MEDICINE AT THE UNIvERSITY OF SYDNEY. MOST

STUDENTS OF SYDNEY MEDICAL SCHOOL APPLY AND ENTER THE PROGRAM AS GRADUATES. STUDENTS MAYAPPLY IN THE FINAL YEAR OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR 2014 ADMISSIONDOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

APPLICANTS MUST HAvE:

A Bachelors degree with a minimum credit aerage.

Students can apply in the nal year o their undergraduate

degree but must meet the required credit aerage at the

time o application and hae met the requirements o their

degree beore 1 January 2014.

Domestic students must hae achieed competitie

perormance in the Graduate Australian Medical School

Admissions Test (GAMSAT) including a minimum o 50 in each

section. International students may submit GAMSAT or MCAT

results (although there are special requirements or US citizens).

Perorm satisactorily in an interiew. International students

may be interiewed by ideo link. The interiew is scored.

To determine a student ranking or entry, GAMSAT scores (or

or international students, their conerted MCAT score) are

combined with their interiew score.

For 2013 entry, the minimum GAMSAT score or domestic

students in the general entry pathway was 67. The minimum

GAMSAT score or students applying under the rural

pathway was 58.

Domestic students applying under the rural origin specialentry scheme must meet the goernment determined

denition, which is someone who has resided in an Australian

Standard Geographical Classication - Remoteness Area

(ASGC-RA 2 to 5) or at least e years (consecutie or

cumulatie) rom commencement o primary school, that

is commencement o school at about the age o e years.

Students will be required to submit proo that they qual iy

or the scheme at the time o application.

JOIN US AS A GRADUATE


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Four main themes proide the ramework or the goals o the program, the deelopmento the curriculum and assessment. Students are required to demonstrate satisactoryperormance in all our themes in order to progress.

PROGRAM THEMES

Basic and Clinical Sciences ensures a strong oundation

in science.

Patient and Doctor teaches clinical skills, diagnostic

methods, patient communication and patient saety.

Population Medicine introduces public health, eidence-

based medicine, statistics and health economics.

Personal and Professional Deelopment includes medical

ethics, medico-legal issues and doctors health.

PROGRAM CONTENT

YEARS 1 & 2

Human structure and unction.

Mechanisms o health and disease in all major body

systems.

Rationale or preention, diagnosis and treatment with

particular reerence to mechanisms o health and disease.

Population context o health, disease and health-

serice deliery.

Deelopment o proessionalism within a culturallydierse society.

Deelopment o inormation skills.

YEARS 3 & 4 Coers all major aspects o clinical medicine.

Students are based entirely in their Clinical Schools with

rotations elsewhere.

TAUGHT IN BLOCkS

YEAR 1 BLOCkS

Foundation Block*

Musculoskeletal medicine

Drug and alcohol

Respiratory medicine Haematology

Cardiology

*Introduction to all basic biomedical sciences and

to clinical sciences.

YEAR 2 BLOCkS Neurology and neurosciences

Endocrinology and nutrition

Nephrology and urology

Gastroenterology and nutrition

Oncology, palliatie care and HIv medicine

YEARS 3 & 4 BLOCkS

Medicine (2 blocks, includes Geriatrics)

Surgery (2 blocks includes Ophthalmology, Ear, Nose

and Throat, Anaesthetics, Intensie Care and Emergency

Medicine)

Perinatal and Womens Health

Child and Adolescent Health

Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine

Community (General Practice)

Electie

Pre-intern term (PRINT)

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

YEARS 1 & 2

Students may undertake short attachments outsideAustralia at afliated sites (e.g. Hanoi Medical Uniersity

in vietnam).

YEARS 3 & 4

The majority o students spend their Electie Block at

the start o Year 4 gaining clinical experience at oerseas

sites. Some are afliated, others organised by students

independently.

International students may undertake approed

substitute terms or a maximum o one Block, usually in

their country o origin.

SYDNEY MEDICAL PROGRAM SNAPSHOT


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OTHER IMPORTANTINFORMATIONFEES: DOMESTIC STUDENTS

I you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident,

or a New Zealand citizen, you wil l be considered a

domestic student and eligible or a Commonwealth-

supported place at uniersity. This means the

Australian goernment will make a contribution

towards your ees. As a Commonwealth-supported

student, you will be required to make a contribution

towards the cost o your education. In 2013, the

student contribution or the Sydney Medical Program

is $9,792 per annum. The contribution rises each year

by approximately 5 percent. For inormation, see:

www.goingtouni.go.au

FEES: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

I you are not an Australian citizen or permanent

resident, or a New Zealand citizen, you will be

considered an international student and only accepted

into the Uniersity on a ull-ee paying basis. In2013, the ee is $62,880 per year plus our years

o mandatory Oerseas Student Health Coer. The

Uniersitys tuition ees are reiewed annually and may

ary during your period o study.

INTERNSHIPS

Sydney Medical Program graduates are eligible or

registration by medical boards in all Australian states

and territories and in New Zealand, on satisactory

completion o an internship with an approed hospital.

In Australia, internships are managed by state health

departments. For more inormation isit the website o

the New South Wales Health Education and TrainingInstitute (HETI): www.heti.nsw.go.au

NSW DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH STATUTORYREQUIREMENTS

These requirements apply or all medical students and

include a criminal record check, prohibited employment

declaration and eidence o current accinations. For

more inormation see: www.health.nsw.go.au/jobs/

student_clearance

UNIvERSITY POLICIES

The dean o the aculty is responsible or the

admission o candidates to courses within the aculty,subject to the policies o the Senate and the Academic

Board and the authority o the vice Chancellor (clause

37.2 o The Uniersity o Sydney (Amendment Act)

Rule 1999). The dean, in exercising responsibility in

making any decision, will abide by Uniersity policies in

relation to admission to Sydney Medical School award

courses, including those that speciy that applications

or admissions are considered according to the criteria

detailed in the course resolutions and handbook.

DISCLAIMERSydney Medical School regularly reiewsthe admission criteria and application processes or its

courses, including the MBBS. It reseres the right to changethese criteria and processes without notice. Statementsin this brochure proide general adice about the currentlyapplicable criteria and processes and may not be correct oruture application periods. Applicants are adised to consultthe Medical Schools website.


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SYDNEY MEDICALSCHOOL

Sydney Medical SchoolT +61 2 9351 3132F +61 2 9351 3196E [email protected]/medicine

ABN 15 211 513 464

CRICOS 00026A

Produced by Sydney Medical School, the Uniersity o Sydney, March 2013.The Uniersity reseres the right to make alterations to any inormation containedwithin the publication without notice.

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