UWA Dentistry Entrance Information

Overview
Degree: Doctor of Dental Medicine
Type: Postgraduate - 4 years - Full Time
Campus: University of Western Australia
Course Code: 90860
Information:

Please note: the undergraduate B. Dental Science has been replaced by a postgraduate qualification, the Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). The DMD commences in 2013.

This means that all applicants will require at least a bachelor degree before commencing the DMD programme.
Postgraduate pathway is the same for international students and local students

Academic requirements
Pre-requisites

Required to meet the UWA English Competency Level (See appendix A)

Recommended subjects

Physics to year 12 level
Chemistry to first year university level (including completion of year 12 level chemistry)
Biology or Human Biology at first year university level

Intake per year
~50 places (25 from 2011 and 25 from 2012 admissions)

Includes subquotas from different pathways (School guaranteed, international students, Indigenous, OMP and rural)

Entry requirements:

Completion of a UWA bachelor degree or equivalent with a minimum GPA of 5.5
Suitable GAMSAT score
Interview
English Language Competency (See appendix C)
Satisfactory completion of the Manual Dexterity and Spatial Awareness Tests (See appendix E)

How to apply

1. Complete or be in final year of undergraduate degree and obtain a GPA
2. Register for GAMSAT by 5.00pm AEDT on Wednesday 1 February 2012
3. Sit the GAMSAT on Saturday 24 March 2012.
4. Apply for DMD through the UWA Faculty Admissions Office by the 10 June 2011 or 1 June 2012.
5. Submit GAMSAT results by the 10^th June 2011.
6. Receive interview offer
7. Attend interview if you are offered (24th September - 1 October 2011)
8. Obtain offer (~Not sure of date)

GAMSAT

GAMSAT scores are valid for two years (so applicants lodging a 2011 application require a 2010 or 2011 GAMSAT score)
Applicants can sit the test from their last year of bachelor study
There are three sections of the test: Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences (Section 1), Written Communication (Section 2), and Reasoning in Biological and Physical Sciences (Section 3)
Section 3 of the test is double weighted and assesses biology and chemistry to first year university level and physics to Australian year 12 level.
Applicants require minimum test scores of 50 in each of the three sections, and a minimum overall score of 50.

Interview offers

Applicants will be shortlisted for interview based equally on GAMSAT and GPA
Minimum GAMSAT scores will be required for consideration for interview offers.

Interviews

Interviews will be held in Perth within the period 24th September - 1 October 2011
Interviews are face to face and are NOT conducted over telephone or through video conferencing facilities
Information on the interview can be found in appendix D

Final ranking:

Final ranking for non-rural applicants is based equally on GAMSAT, GPA and Interview score.
Final ranking for rural applicants is based equally on GAMSAT, GPA, Interview and a Rurality Ranking.

Alternative pathways

School leavers
Year 12 applicants can apply in 2011 through TISC. (Appendix B)

Need to apply by 30 September

Successful applicants will receive a conditional place in the DMD.

A place in the DMD is conditional upon successful completion of a UWA bachelor degree with a minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 5.5.

Quota: 5 Applicants

Entry Requirements:

Minimum ATAR of 99 or equivalent
Suitable UMAT score
Interview
English Language Competency (See appendix A)

UMAT

UWA does not consider percentiles or the Overall UMAT score. Instead the sum of the three section scores is used. All three sections of the test are weighted equally.
The Faculty Admissions Office does not set benchmark UMAT thresholds (other than the requirement that applicants receive a section one percentile score of at least 20).
Instead, the last person invited for interview in their category ‘sets’ the UMAT threshold. The university does not release past thresholds.

Interview offers

Applicants will be shortlisted for interview on the basis of the UMAT score
Does not consider percentiles or the Overall UMAT score.
Sum of the three section scores is used. All three sections of the test are weighted equally.

Interviews

WA applicants: held from 28 November - 10 December (meet the minimum UMAT requirement and also appear likely to meet the minimum academic requirement.)
Interstate applicants: held in mid-late January (meet the minimum UMAT and Academic requirements.)
WA applicants: held in mid-late January (who had met the minimum UMAT requirement and who were predicted to not meet the minimum academic requirement but subsequently did.)
More information of the interview can be found in appendix D

More information found in appendix C

International school leaver pathway

Quota: Up to 3 places available

Entry Requirements:

Minimum ATAR of 96 or equivalent
Suitable ISAT score
Interview
English Language Competency (See appendix A)
Satisfactory completion of the Manual Dexterity and Spatial Awareness Tests (See Appendix E)

Entrance Information

Applicants should apply through the International Centre by 30 June 2011
ISAT must be sat by 30 June 2011
ISAT results must be sent to the International Centre by 5 July 2011

ISAT

Must be sat by 30 June 2011
ISAT scores are valid for two years
Applicants must forward ISAT scores to the Faculty by 5 July
Applicants will need to be in at least the 25th percentile of each section of the test to be eligible for consideration.
Applicants will be shortlisted for interview on the basis of the ISAT score (with the condition that they also appear likely to meet the minimum academic requirement).
More information in appendix F