The Notre Dame MD MMI: one recorded interview, two campuses (2027 entry)

Notre Dame interviews Doctor of Medicine applicants with a Multiple Mini Interview delivered through a recorded, asynchronous online platform. Both campus entries carry the same sentence: "The interview is conducted using a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format. It is delivered via a recorded (asynchronous) online platform." Nobody is on the other end while you answer: you read a prompt, you record, an assessor watches later.

GEMSAS lists Fremantle (with KCRMT, Broome) and Sydney as separate schools, but this is not two interviews: the Sydney entry repeats that sentence, and the ranking rules, word for word.

No station count, station length or reading time is published for either campus. In a recorded format that is the gap that matters most: it sets how long you get to think and how long you get to speak. Any station count circulating for Notre Dame is unofficial.

The format, in detail

How you get an interview, and how you get a place

These are two different calculations, and applicants conflate them constantly. Getting invited is decided before anyone has seen you: "Applicants are ranked for interview by the standardised results of the combined GAMSAT, GPA, Casper and bonus points, weighted 30:30:30:10." The cycle-wide GEMSAS table adds that the GAMSAT used is unweighted.

Getting a place is decided afterwards, and the interview is half of it: "Interviewees are ranked for offer by a combination of the GAMSAT, GPA, Casper and bonus points (50%) and interview (50%)." You receive one interview offer only per GEMSAS application, so this is the interview.

Casper is a third of the ranking for an interview

Casper carries the same 30 per cent as GAMSAT and the same 30 per cent as GPA, and it is a hard gate: both campuses state that "Applicants without a Casper score will not be considered." Four sittings are listed for the cycle, subject to change, from 12 April to 11 June 2026. Nothing that would let you calibrate is published: no cut-off for general entry, and no account of how a raw result becomes its 30 per cent share.

One interview, two campuses: what actually differs

Timing for 2027 entry

The pathway you are on changes the facts

International applicants sit a different interview entirely

Both campuses state that international places for 2027 are not offered through GEMSAS. Notre Dame's international page then says "This year the School of Medicine is using a live online panel interview for all international candidates." Every candidate is asked the same questions, with time to ask your own at the end, so nothing above describes what you will sit. The minimums differ too: a weighted GPA of 5.2, and an unweighted GAMSAT of at least 50 in all sections and overall, or an MCAT of 500.

Rural applicants, and the Broome sub-pathway

Both campuses publish the same target: at least 28.5 per cent of the university's Commonwealth supported medical places must go to students of rural background as defined by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program. There is no separate rural interview stream, though: rurality is bonus points inside the 30:30:30:10 ranking, on evidence given to GEMSAS for an MM2 to MM7 background.

KCRMT, Broome is not a separate GEMSAS school: rural and metropolitan applicants apply under Fremantle and KCRMT, Broome and nominate Broome in their preference order, while Kimberley or Pilbara residents of five consecutive or ten cumulative years apply direct instead. Broome takes up to 20 students a year, with priority going to Kimberley and Pilbara residents and Indigenous applicants. Preferencing both campuses is not two chances: offers follow one ranking and your preference order.

Indigenous applicants apply direct, earlier, and to all three campuses at once

One Indigenous entry pathway covers Fremantle, Sydney and KCRMT Broome, applied for directly rather than through GEMSAS, and the application form lets you rank all three. It asks for proof of Aboriginality, a three-year full-time equivalent degree within the last ten years, a GPA of at least 5.0 with case-by-case flexibility below that, a personal statement, a CV and a successful interview. Three rounds close during 2026 and interviews commence from June, months ahead of the GEMSAS round. The format of that interview is not published.

Facilitated interview and priority entry pathways

A facilitated interview buys the interview and nothing else: Notre Dame states such an offer is not guaranteed entry, and that applicants are then competitively ranked for a place. The UNDA graduate route asks for GPA 6, an unweighted GAMSAT average of 55 and a top-10 ranking among Notre Dame graduates not otherwise interviewed, for up to 10 interviews across either campus. The Pre-Medicine Certificate route is Fremantle-only. The ACU Biomedical Sciences route is Sydney-only.

The Priority Entry Pathway is different again, reserving places for graduates of Notre Dame's own Bachelor of Biomedical Science, who compete within their cohort rather than the national pool, on GPA 6.0, unweighted GAMSAT 55, a Casper score no lower than one standard deviation below the mean, and Notre Dame first in their preferences. A school-leaver Assured Pathway exists at both campuses, with UCAT ANZ or ISAT deciding who is interviewed, though those criteria appeared only among the international requirements at our last check.

What Notre Dame does not publish

Most pages about this interview are written as though its shape is known. It is not. Here is what is missing, so you can recognise invention when you meet it.

The shape of it is unpublished: no station count, no station or response length, no total duration, no reading time. The platform is never named, and nothing covers timing, re-records, technical failure, a practice run, or how many days you have to record.

The scoring is undescribed, with no rubric, assessed domains or assessor count, nothing on whether assessors see your GAMSAT, GPA or Casper, and no minimum score, so it is unclear whether a poor interview disqualifies you or only lowers your rank. The arithmetic is similarly opaque, because the 30:30:30:10 weights are never mapped to named components in words, bonus sizes are unpublished, and no interview cut-off is released. On Casper specifically there is no cut-off for general entry, and no account of how a raw score becomes its 30 per cent share.

Identification and technical requirements are not published in advance, and GEMSAS says only that the invitation will include them. There is no deadline for requesting an adjustment and no list of what is available, and no feedback, scores, rankings, appeal or review once it is over.

That tells you where the real information will come from: the invitation email. For this format it is the operative document, and the first place a station count or time limit is likely to appear.

How we would prepare for a format nobody has described

Everything above is published information. This section is MedCoach's advice, shaped by the two facts that define this interview: it is recorded, and its dimensions stay unknown until the invitation arrives.

Rehearse a short version and a long version of every answer

With no response length published, the skill is not hitting a target time. It is landing the same argument in about a minute, or stretching it past three without padding. Build the core you would say in sixty seconds and the elaboration you would add if you had more, and practise stopping cleanly at either point.

Restate the prompt before you answer it

A live interviewer who sees you answering the wrong question usually redirects you. A recording will not: misread the prompt and you record several confident minutes of an answer to a question nobody asked. Opening with the question in your own words costs seconds and proves you understood it. Since Notre Dame does not publish whether re-records are permitted, assume they are not.

Practise with nobody reacting

Most people prepare with a friend who nods and follows up. None of that exists here, so do at least half your practice alone into a camera, and judge the recording rather than how it felt. Address the lens, not your own image on screen, which reads as looking away.

If you are applying more widely, the guide to medical school interviews in Australia covers how formats differ from school to school, and the Melbourne ROMMI guide is worth reading beside this one: Melbourne runs the other major recorded, no-interviewer format in the round, and publishes far more of its dimensions.