Entry schemes
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP)
Extended Rural Cohort (ERC)
Bonded Medical Places (BMP)
Dean's Rural List (DRL)
Dean's Indigenous List (DIL)
Monash University Excellence Scholarship Applicants
Vice Chancellor's Monash Access Scholars Program
(VTAC code 28251)
In 2012, approximately 160 CSP places were available.
Monash University offers a five-year medical course that leads to the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree.
The curriculum is a comprehensive interdisciplinary program; organised to provide integration of structure and function within the clinical sciences setting.
Medical experience starts in the first semester of the course and increases as the student progresses. In the early years, the basic medical sciences are taught in the context of patient care. Later, clinical teaching reinforces this strong scientific foundation.
Only students offered a CSP or ERC CSP are eligible for this scholarship
In 2012, the Commonwealth Government offered scholarships (Australia - wide) of just over $25,000 per annum to new medical students for the length of the course, in return for legally-binding commitment to practice in rural areas for a fixed period at the completion of training.
It is expected that Monash University will be allocated approximately seven undergraduate MBBS scholarships places in 2013 (Deferral of an MRB Scholarship is not permitted; applicants can reapply for the scholarship in the year they commence the course). Details of application procedures for these scholarship places will be made available to timely VTAC applicants.
MRB scholarships can only be offered to Australian citizens or permanent residents.
For further information contact:
Telephone: 1800 248 720 (freecall)
Email: MRBscholarships@health.gov.au
Web: http://www.health.gov.au/mrbscholarships
In 2012, 30 CSP places were available under the Extended Rural Cohort stream. This included CSP and MRB scholarship places.
Students enrolled in the MBBS Extended Rural Cohort stream undertake the majority of their clinical education within hospitals and community-based practices in northern rural and regional Victoria. This extended rural training option is provided for students interested in practicing medicine in a rural or regional location.
Only Australian citizens and permanent residents only can apply. International students are not eligible to apply for admission to the ERC stream.
The ERC stream of the Monash MBBS course has its own VTAC code (28151) and applicants must nominate this code to be considered for a place in this stream. All VTAC applicants for the Monash Undergraduate Medicine course will receive an email/ communication. Information will be sent to applicants on how to access an on-line supplementary form which enables applicants to apply for inclusion on the Dean’s Rural List or the Dean’s Indigenous List. Additional interviews will be offered to a number of applicants who are not originally offered interviews based on their UMAT scores, but who have established their eligibility for the Dean’s Rural or Dean’s Indigenous List. The communication will explain the way in which applicants can express their interest in Medical Rural Bonded Scholarships, which are offered in January to applicants who have qualified for Commonwealth Supported Places.
Medical Rural-Bonded (MRB) Scholarships
It is expected that three out of the scholarship places will be offered to students in the ERC stream. For more details about the MRB scheme see above.
~62 Bonded Medical Places were offered in Central medical program in 2012.
The Federal Government has advised all schools of medicine across Australia that approximately 25% of CSP places must be set aside as bonded places. By indicating a preference for a Bonded Medical Place, upon accepting an offer, the student will be required to sign a contract. Monash advises potential students to seek early legal advice.
Student accepting Bonded Medical Places will be giving permission for the government to require them, at the end of their training, to practice in a designated area of medical need. An area of medical need will be a district of workforce shortage as defined by the Australian Government.
For further information contact:
Telephone: 1800 987 104 (freecall)
Email: BMPscheme@health.gov.au
Web: http://www.health.gov.au/bmpscheme
Applicants to the medicine course may apply to be considered for a place in the course via the Dean's Rural List (DRL). 'Rural areas' in this instance means rural areas in Australia only.
All timely VTAC applicants for the MBBS course will be invited by MBBS Admissions to submit additional information to confirm their eligibility requirements for the DRL. Applications need to submitted directly to the Faculty. Failure to do so could result in a missed opportunity to be invited to interview.
To be eligible, the applicant must have resided (according to principal home address) for at least 5 years in areas classified as RA 2-5 since beginning primary school (ASGC-RA: Australian Standard Geographic Classification - Remoteness Areas).
The RA classification of many towns can be checked by consulting the website: www.doctorconnect.gov.au/internet/otd/Publishing.nsf/content/locator.
If you apply for the Dean's Rural List and are deemed eligible, you will be required to submit a Statutory Declaration form confirming the details you have submitted. This Statutory Declaration form made available to you prior so that you can sign it and return it when you attend your interview.
In the past, approximately 60 DRL applicants with a UMAT score slightly lower than the standard faculty-determined MBBS cut-off were invited to an interview after initial UMAT based invitations were issued.
Australian Indigenous applicants to the medicine course may apply to be considered for the Dean's Indigenous List (DIL).
Please note that applicants of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who are members of an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community are eligible to apply for waiving of certain costs associated with their study. More information will be made available to all timely applicants for the course. If you are of Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and are a member of an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community, you will have the opportunity to apply for the DIL via a supplied online link - this link will be provided as part of the Monash MBBS VTAC mail out in October.
Based on these applications, some additional interviews will be offered to applicants eligible for the Dean's Indigenous List, which will function in the same way as the Dean's rural list to enable us to identify Australian Indigenous applicants not offered an interview in the original mail out. Those invited to attend these additional interviews will be notified by mid-to late November each year.
The faculty will contact the Indigenous Engagement Unit to confirm applications and you will be contacted by the Indigenous Engagement Unit.
Web: www.monash.edu.au/study/indigenous/
To recognise students who have excelled in their Year 12 academic studies applicants who received a perfect ATAR of 99.95 (or equivalent) in 2012 were offered the opportunity to attend a late interview in early to mid-January (if not interviewed previously) if they fulfilled the following criteria:
- They were awarded the Monash Scholarship for Excellence;
- They had the Monash MBBS course listed as a preference through VTAC; and
- Their UMAT score (determined by the Faculty on an annual basis).
Information about the Vice Chancellor's Access Monash Scholars Program for 2013 will be published once it has been finalised.
http://www.monash.edu.au/access/vc-scheme.html
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