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Plain explanations of how Australian medical school interviews actually run: which format each school uses, how the interview is weighted, and when offers and interviews happen. Every fact is checked against the university's own admissions pages and guides, and each article shows the cycle it applies to and the date we last checked it.
We are building this out school by school rather than publishing thin pages. Everything listed below is written and checked. MedCoach is an independent study tool and is not affiliated with any university or admissions body.
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Twenty-three universities offer a primary medical degree in Australia, and their interviews have almost nothing in common. Station counts run from three to eight. Some are live, some are recorded with no interviewer in the room. Two programs do not interview domestic applicants at all. This page sets out what each one actually publishes for 2027 entry, checked against the university's own material.
Graduate entry through GEMSAS runs on a fixed national timeline, while direct entry schools each publish their own. Here is what is actually confirmed for 2027 entry, what is only an indicative window, and what has not been published at all.
Entry from Year 12 or from inside an undergraduate degree, mostly on the UCAT ANZ and mostly interviewed between late November and January once results are out. Where a university runs both an undergraduate and a graduate route, each has its own guide here, because the eligibility, the test, the interview month and the weighting all differ. Four of these programs use no admissions test at all, one holds no interview, and Bond interviews in March 2027, months after everyone else. Macquarie and Griffith appear in both clusters: Macquarie's school-leaver route is open to international applicants only, and Griffith's Bachelor of Medical Science route reaches the MD with no interview at all.
Monash University: Direct Entry medicine
Monash direct entry is the school-leaver pathway into medicine at Clayton, applied for through VTAC. The Multi Mini Interview runs entirely online over Zoom across six sequential stations, ten minutes each, and it is one of three equally weighted components alongside the ATAR aggregate and the UCAT ANZ. Monash is not a GEMSAS school, so none of the GEMSAS dates apply here.
UNSW Sydney: General, Rural (REAP), Gateway and Lateral Entry
UNSW does not use a Multiple Mini Interview. It runs a structured interview with two interviewers, held in person on campus for domestic applicants and over Zoom for international applicants. There are four domestic rounds for 2027 entry, and which one you sit depends on when your results are finalised.
University of Queensland: Provisional entry pathway (Greater Brisbane)
UQ's provisional entry pathway offers Year 12 students a medical place before they start an undergraduate degree. It runs through QTAC on an adjusted ATAR of 95 and the UCAT ANZ, and the interview is the same eight-station Zoom MMI UQ uses for graduate entry, held in mid to late November 2026 and worth half the final score.
University of Western Australia: Assured Pathway entry to Medicine for domestic students
UWA's Assured Pathway gives Year 12 students a conditional MD place through the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised). Applications go through TISC, interviews run on selected dates between 30 November and 11 December 2026, and the eight-station MMI is worth half the final ranking against ATAR at 30 per cent and UCAT ANZ at 20 per cent.
University of Sydney: Double Degree Medicine Program (DDMP)
Sydney's Double Degree Medicine Program is the only school-leaver route into medicine at the University, and its selection stage is an online Assessment Day combining a group interview with a written assessment. Invitations follow ATAR release, the assessment runs on 18 December 2026 or 18 January 2027 by Zoom, and the dates are not negotiable.
Australian National University: Bachelor of Health Science to Doctor of Medicine and Surgery pathway
ANU runs an internal pathway from its Bachelor of Health Science into the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, with up to 40 domestic offers a year and no GAMSAT. Offers rank on a weighted average mark at 40 per cent, an admissions interview at 40 per cent and five written selection criteria responses at 20 per cent, and the interview carries a 60 per cent pass hurdle.
Macquarie University: Standard domestic pathway, Doctor of Medicine
Macquarie runs a Multiple Mini Interview, and for domestic applicants it is still face-to-face, on one named Saturday. International applicants sit a modified MMI by videoconference across three rounds instead. Every place in the program is full-fee, and the MMI is worth half the offer ranking, but Macquarie publishes no station count and no station length for the graduate MD interview.
Griffith University: Graduate entry, Doctor of Medicine
Griffith does not run a Multiple Mini Interview and never calls its interview one. The GUMSAA is a scenario-based assessment delivered online through the SAMMI system, tentatively 21 to 25 September 2026, with invited applicants choosing their own slot and getting practice recordings first. Neither Griffith nor GEMSAS publishes how many scenarios you face or how long you get to answer.
Curtin University: School leaver, Curtin course switcher and non-school-leaver entry
Curtin calls its interview a Multiple Mini Interview and runs it primarily face to face at its Perth campus, across three rounds that stretch from early December 2026 into late January 2027. Casper carries the same weight as your ATAR in deciding who gets invited, which is unusual in Australia, and then drops out of the offer ranking entirely. Curtin publishes both ratios to the digit and publishes nothing at all about how many stations you face or how long each one lasts.
Adelaide University: Secondary education and UCAT-ranked entry
Adelaide University publishes more about its medical interview than almost any other Australian school: a Multiple Mini Interview of at least six stations lasting ten minutes each, one interviewer per station, delivered over Zoom with no in-person option at all. It also publishes the exact offer weighting. What it does not publish is the one thing applicants most want, which is when the main round of interviews actually happens. And because Adelaide University is a new institution formed from the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, the older University of Adelaide guides that still circulate no longer describe the process you will sit.
Newcastle and New England Joint Medical Program: Standard application, Joint Medical Program
The Joint Medical Program run by the University of Newcastle and the University of New England does not use the words Multiple Mini Interview anywhere in its selection material. It runs a Multiple Skills Assessment, one half of a two-part assessment day that also includes an online Personal Qualities Assessment. The published station structure is six rotating eight-minute stations with a two-minute break between them, sat in person at Callaghan or Armidale. And under the governing policy your final rank is that assessment alone, with UCAT used only to break ties.
Western Sydney University: General Applicants and Rural Entry Admission Scheme
Western Sydney University publishes the heaviest interview weighting of any Australian medical program we have checked: 75 per cent of the final offer, with UCAT ANZ making up the other 25 per cent and the academic threshold acting as a pass mark rather than a score. The interview is a Multi-Mini-Station Interview delivered over Zoom in late November, with roughly eight minutes to answer each question and a different interviewer at every station. How many stations there are has never been published. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants sit a structured panel in early November instead.
Charles Sturt University: Domestic entry to the Orange Medicine Program
Charles Sturt runs its Bachelor of Clinical Science (Medicine) / Doctor of Medicine at Orange through its own School of Rural Medicine, for Australian citizens and permanent residents only. The UCAT ANZ decides who is interviewed and nothing else does, and the interview is a Zoom MMI with an unusually long eight minutes on each question.
James Cook University: Domestic entry to the MBBS
James Cook University is one of two Australian medical programs that use no admissions test at all. Selection turns on your academic record, an online panel interview delivered through Kira Talent, and rurality. Medicine applicants submit no written statement and no letters of support, which is the single most common misunderstanding about this program.
Charles Darwin University: Domestic entry to the CDU Menzies Medical Program
Charles Darwin University interviews 160 domestic candidates for 40 places, in a single standardised 30-minute panel interview at its Casuarina campus. There is no UCAT and no GAMSAT. Half the final ranking is the interview, and the application pack you submit alongside your SATAC application decides whether you are shortlisted for one at all.
Bond University: Medical Program entry through QTAC
Bond runs the only Australian medical selection process where a psychometric test, not an admissions test, decides who gets an interview. There is no UCAT and no GAMSAT. The interview itself is online, sits in March 2027 after every other school has finished, and Bond publishes almost nothing about how it is structured.
University of Tasmania: Domestic entry to the BMedScMD
The University of Tasmania is the one Australian medical program that runs no interview for its mainstream domestic pathways. It says so in a single sentence on its own course page. Places are decided on ATAR with the UCAT ANZ as a tie-break, or on GPA and GAMSAT, and only the Aboriginal Entry Pathway includes an interview.
The pathways for applicants who already hold a bachelor degree, most of them on the GAMSAT and through GEMSAS. Station counts run from three to eight, several of these interviews are recorded rather than live, one is a 50-minute panel with no stations at all, and two of these programs do not interview domestic applicants. Monash graduate entry sits outside GEMSAS and needs no GAMSAT.
University of Melbourne: Standard Pathway, Doctor of Medicine
Melbourne calls it a Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview, or ROMMI. There is no interviewer on the other end: prompts appear on a platform and you record your answers. That changes what you should practise, and it is worth between 50 and 100 per cent of your selection outcome depending on your pathway.
Monash University: Graduate entry medicine, Churchill (Gippsland)
Monash runs a second, separate medicine course at Churchill in Gippsland for graduates of named Monash degrees. It requires no GAMSAT, it is not a GEMSAS pathway, and the six-station Zoom MMI is worth 60 per cent of the decision against a 40 per cent undergraduate WAM. Interviews run on 8, 9 and 10 September 2026, months before the direct-entry rounds.
University of Queensland: Graduate Entry, Doctor of Medicine
UQ interviews graduate entry Doctor of Medicine applicants, invited through GEMSAS, with an eight-station Multiple Mini Interview held entirely online over Zoom in mid-September 2026. Each station gives you two minutes to read and seven minutes to answer, and the MMI is worth half your final selection score as well as being a hurdle you have to clear.
University of Western Australia: Graduate entry to Medicine
UWA interviews domestic graduate entry applicants, invited through GEMSAS, with an eight-station MMI online between 22 September and 3 October 2026. Each station runs seven minutes, two to consider a written question and five with a different interviewer. International applicants sit something else entirely, a two-interviewer panel of about 50 minutes. Either way, the interview is worth 50 per cent of the final ranking.
University of Sydney: Standard graduate entry, Doctor of Medicine
The short answer depends entirely on which cohort you are in. A domestic applicant to the standard graduate-entry Sydney MD has no interview stage published for 2027 entry. The Dubbo stream, international applicants and the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme all do have one. The school-leaver double degree is a separate pathway with its own Assessment Day.
Australian National University: Domestic graduate entry, Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
ANU's Doctor of Medicine and Surgery interview is held online, in two parts, between 4 and 11 September 2026 for domestic applicants. That one sentence from GEMSAS is the only structural description published anywhere: ANU names no format, no station count, no duration and no reading time. Here is what is confirmed, what is missing, and how to prepare without it.
Macquarie University: Standard domestic pathway, Doctor of Medicine
Macquarie runs a Multiple Mini Interview, and for domestic applicants it is still face-to-face, on one named Saturday. International applicants sit a modified MMI by videoconference across three rounds instead. Every place in the program is full-fee, and the MMI is worth half the offer ranking, but Macquarie publishes no station count and no station length for the graduate MD interview.
Griffith University: Graduate entry, Doctor of Medicine
Griffith does not run a Multiple Mini Interview and never calls its interview one. The GUMSAA is a scenario-based assessment delivered online through the SAMMI system, tentatively 21 to 25 September 2026, with invited applicants choosing their own slot and getting practice recordings first. Neither Griffith nor GEMSAS publishes how many scenarios you face or how long you get to answer.
Deakin University: General Entry Stream, Doctor of Medicine
Deakin interviews domestic Doctor of Medicine applicants with a Multiple Mini Interview of up to six consecutive stations, five minutes each, held online in September 2026. A maximum of 220 applicants are interviewed, the MMI is worth half the aggregate that decides offers, and you must score at least 50% overall. International applicants sit a structured panel interview instead, outside GEMSAS entirely.
University of Wollongong: General Entry Pathway, Doctor of Medicine
UOW runs a structured eight-station Multiple Mini Interview, live online, in the week commencing 17 September 2026. Its two ranking formulas are unusual: GPA and GAMSAT are pure hurdles, interview offers are ranked half on Casper and half on UOW admissions bonuses, and place offers are ranked 70 per cent on the interview, with GPA, GAMSAT and Casper all excluded.
University of Notre Dame Australia: General entry pathway, Doctor of Medicine
GEMSAS lists Fremantle and Sydney as two schools, but Notre Dame runs one interview: a Multiple Mini Interview delivered through a recorded, asynchronous online platform. Ranking for an interview is 30:30:30:10 across GAMSAT, GPA, Casper and bonus points, and ranking for a place is half that score and half the interview. No station count, station length or reading time is published for either campus.
Flinders University: Doctor of Medicine graduate entry
Flinders never describes its interview as a Multiple Mini Interview, and it administers its own admissions rather than going through GEMSAS. What it publishes is a semi-structured panel interview of roughly 45 to 50 minutes, using a common set of scenarios and questions for every applicant, conducted by a small panel that knows nothing about you beyond your name. It is also the only Australian medical interview we have found that costs money to book: a non-refundable $65 administration fee, payable when you choose your slot. And it is a hurdle before it is a weighting, because Flinders does not even calculate your weighted GPA unless you pass it.
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