About the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBBS Degree Course

The Monash degree, Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), is a five-year undergraduate medical course.

The medical curriculum provides an interdisciplinary program, organised to provide integration of structure and function within the biomedical sciences. It presents a continually expanding level of medical experience, starting in the first semester of the course. In the early years, the basic medical sciences are taught in the context of their relevance to patient care. Later in the course, clinical teaching builds upon and reinforces this strong scientific foundation.

An emphasis on clinical communication skills and early clinical contact visits to medical practices, community care facilities and hospitals, is a feature of the Monash degree. All students will spend significant time in rural areas as part of a health care team.

Students enrolled in the five-year medical course also have the opportunity of electing to study for an extra year for a Bachelor of Medical Science degree. During the 12 month period required for completion of the BMedSc, students undertake research activities supervised through a department of the faculty and complete a minor thesis. They will then graduate with both the MBBS and the BMedSc degrees after six years of study.

There are approximately 190 places in the first year of the medicine course for Australian citizens and permanent residents, including 48 bonded medical places and 7 rural-bonded places. Fee paying places for Australian citizens and permanent residents may be available. Additional places are provided for international feepaying students.

In 2007, 30 new places were available via the Extended Rural Cohort (ERC) stream. A number of these ERC places are bonded medical places.