University Of Western Sydney - School of Medicine Local Applicants
1. Applicants should lodge an application for selection to the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney by the Date 2010 Currently Unknown. Forms for application will be available from the School of Medicine website in July of 2010. School leavers will need to submit an ATAR prediction form as well as a registration form.
Note: GWS applicants should also lodge a Statutory Declaration form to ensure eligibility
2. Applicants should register with ACER to sit the UMAT test. (
www.acer.edu.au) to sit the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) by 5pm. Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Friday 4 June 2010. Late registrations will be accepted up to 5pm. AEST Friday 18 June 2010, on payment of a late fee of AUD$55 in addition to the registration fee. The online registration system will close at 5p.m. AEST on Friday 18 June. It will NOT be possible to register for UMAT2010 after this date. REGISTRATIONS NOW CLOSED
3. Applicants will need to sit the UMAT at the nominated test site on Wednesday 28th of July 2010
4. Those who receive an invitation will be required to attend an interview at the Campbelltown Campus as follows: Tuesday 30 November 2010
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Thursday 2 December 2010
Friday 3 December 2010
There will be no interviews outside these days (except for one day in January for Interstate applicants who do not wish to attend in December).
5. Applicants successful in gaining entry to the course will be notified by UAC.
Greater Western Sydney (GWS) students eligible for GWS entry will need to fill an additional declaration of GWS residency, certified by a Justice of the Peace by the 2010 Date Currently Unknown.
To qualify as a GWS applicant, a candidate must have lived in one of the following local government electorates for at least five years:
Auburn Council, Bankstown City Council, The Council of the Shire of Baulkham Hills, Blacktown City Council, Blue Mountains City Council, Camden Council, Campbelltown City Council, Fairfield City Council, Hawkesbury City Council, Holroyd City Council, Liverpool City Council, Parramatta City Council, Penrith City Council & Wollondilly Shire Council.
Note: UWS School of Medicine does not recognise the subject bonus nor does it offer early offers. If you accept an early offer you will not be eligible for selection into the School of Medicine.
http://future.uws.edu.au/tripleadvantage Important dates· Applications to the School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney, are to be lodged by 2010 Date Currently Unknown. Forms will be available Here in July 2010. Please note late applications will not be accepted.
· Applicants will need to register to sit the UMAT with ACER (
www.acer.edu.au) by 5pm. Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Friday 4 June 2010. Late applications will be accepted until 5pm. AEST Friday 18 June 2010 and a $55 late fee will apply.
· Applicants will need to sit the UMAT at the nominated test site on Wednesday 28th of July 2010
· Invitations for interviews will be released on 2nd of November 2010.
· The interviews will be conducted:
30/11/2010
1/12/2010
2/12/2010
3/12/2010
There will be no interviews outside these days (except for one day in January for Interstate applicants who do not wish to attend in December).
· Offers will be posted via the UAC website.
Alternative entry
Advanced Science- First year interview offer
"If you meet the ATAR requirements for Medicine but your application to study Medicine is unsuccessful, you will receive a guaranteed offer into the Bachelor of Science (Advanced). Each year up to six interview places for admission to the MBBS will be reserved for students in Year 1 of the Advanced Science program who meet specified criteria."
2009 Interview requirements (subject to change):
Please see the UWS Medicine 2009 prospectus for more details or contact or Ms. Penny Lee (School of Medicine, Admin Officer) on:
p.lee@uws.edu.au Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisites required for study, however, HSC level Chemistry is assumed knowledge.
ATAR and GPA
]Students applying for entry in 2009 were required to achieve a minimum ATAR threshold of 95.00 for non GWS applicants or 93.00 for GWS applicants. However, this requirement has been raised for 2010 as applicants must meet one of the following thresholds: ATAR (or equivalent) of 95.40 for non-Greater Western Sydney [GWS] applicants or 93.55 for GWS applicants or GPA of 5.5 or more on a 7 point scale for students who have completed a degree or have completed a minimum of one year’s full time study in a degree course.The final ranks of applicants are not based on ATAR; a student’s ATAR plays no further role in admissions other than to differentiate between those who achieved the minimum ATAR required and those who didn’t.
In 2007 the median UAI was about 98. There were 43% of students scoring between 98 and 100, 37% scoring between 95 and 97, and 20% scoring between 93 and 94. In 2008, the median UAI was about 99, and in 2009, the median ATAR was just under 99; please note that ATAR is merely a hurdle at UWS and, provided a score over 95 (or 93 GWS applicants), is attained, there is no further consideration of ATAR.
For those students who have undertaken one or more years of tertiary (university) study, but have not completed their degree, students must have attained either an ATAR of 95.40 (93.55 for GWS applicants) or a GPA of 5.5. It is not necessary to fulfill both these requirements.
For graduate students, a GPA of 5.5 or above must have been attained in their bachelor degree (if their undergraduate degree is combined both degrees are included).
For those who are in year 12 at the time they apply, a predicted ATAR (or equivalent) as well as UMAT results will be used to decide who will be invited to interviews. In order for a predicted ATAR to be used, all current year 12 applicants must lodge a Prediction of Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) (or equivalent) form by the advertised deadline. This form will be available online from July, 2010.
For those with combined degrees, grades in both degrees will be included. The degree may be in any discipline, from a University recognised for this purpose by the University of Western Sydney.
NOTE: The School of Medicine is not able to advise applicants if their qualifications meet the required rank. All queries in relation to qualifications and how they are converted should be directed to the UWS Admissions Office via email to
admissions@uws.edu.au.
For more information please see the: 2010 Entry Requirements - Instructions and Information (PDF)
UMAT
Applicants must register to sit the UMAT at a time determined by ACER. For details about registration and dates for the UMAT please see the ACER web page or contact ACER directly. Note that there is no flexibility with these dates.
UMAT Contact Details:
Web:
http://umat.acer.edu.au/
Phone: (03) 9277 5746 International: (+61 3) 9277 5746
Fax: (03) 9277 5757 International: (+61 3) 9277 5757
Email:
umat@acer.edu.au
The threshold level of achievement the University will require in UMAT will be determined each year depending on the performance of all applicants competing for a place in the MBBS course and will not be disclosed, although a MSO estimate is provided below. GWS applicants may have a slightly lower threshold than non-GWS applicants, as mentioned above.
Applicants who meet both academic and UMAT thresholds are subsequently invited to interview. Final rankings for offers into MBBS will be based on interview performance, plus UMAT scores (with a greater emphasis being on the interviews).
The UMAT is worth 33.3% of applicant’s final rank and is used to decide which applicants will be invited for an interview. In 2007, successful applicants were in the top 10% of all students who took the UMAT. A non GWS applicant required an UMAT raw score of 183 to be offered an interview while a GWS applicant required a raw score of 164.
As of 2008, UWS did not use raw scores to assess a candidate's eligibility, rather, a weighted system was used instead. This weighted system is believed to be 1:1:0.5 for sections 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The UMAT cutoff to receive an interview in 2008, was estimated to be 138.5 (weighted) for GWS applicants and 151 (weighted) for non GWS applicants.
In 2009, the UMAT cutoff to receive an interview was estimated to be 137.5 (weighted) for GWS applicants and 152 (weighted) for non GWS applicants.
Interview
Applicants who achieve the required minimum ATAR score and UMAT raw score are invited to attend an interview. There are about 300 people interviewed for a total of about 100 places. The interview is worth 66.6% of the applicants final rank.
The interview system used is the Multi-station Mini Interview (MMI). This involves a series of stations that are intended to assess a variety of desirable skills such as empathy, communication, stress and coping skills, teamwork etc. as well as traditional queries about motivation to study medicine and a candidate's background. This style of interview is favoured because of its ability to dilute the chances of interviewer/situational bias.
In 2008, there were 8 different stations with 8 different interviewers. It is thought that this will reduce the impact of ‘easy’ or ‘hard’ interviewers.
In 2009, there were 10 different stations with 9 different interviewers, 8 minutes per interviewer with a rest stop at the tenth.
In 2010, MMIs will be held at the University of Western Sydney’s Campbelltown Campus. Tuesday 30 November to Friday 3 December 2010.
A supplementary round of interviews will be held in late January 2011 for Interstate applicants, plus those applicants who meet the ATAR threshold but whose predicted ATAR did not. Whilst January interviews will not be available to applicants who are unable to attend the December interviews, interstate applicants may choose to attend the December interviews if eligible.
Applicants who are invited to attend an interview but who fail to attend at the specified date, time and location will be regarded as having withdrawn their application. Only those candidates who have attended an interview will be considered for final selection.
Transfers
If you are a current medical student at another university, please use the "Transfer Request" form rather than the "MBBS Registration" Form.
Rural Applicants
Rural applicants will need to fill in an MRBS form alongside the standard application form.
International Applicants
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Indigenous Entry
The School recognises the large Indigenous population in Greater Western Sydney and the need for more Indigenous doctors across Australia.
The School's staff includes an Indigenous Program Officer to work with these students and Indigenous communities in Greater Western Sydney.
In addition to its role in producing more Indigenous Doctors, UWS School of Medicine aims to develop the skills and cultural awareness and sensitivity of its non-Indigenous students. All UWS MBBS students undertake an Indigenous attachment in Year Five of their course.
Indigenous applicants for Medicine at UWS should apply directly to the school using the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Registration form, available from Applying for Medicine.
Indigenous applicants should have successfully completed at least the equivalent of the NSW HSC. It is desirable but not essential that they sit the UMAT. The UMAT (Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test) is administered by the Australian Council for Education Research (ACER).
The most important criteria for admission will be assessment of the applicant’s desire to study medicine and their likelihood of succeeding in the course, which will be determined by the School on a case by case basis.
Indigenous Program Officer
School of Medicine
(02) 9852 4637
Course Information Centre
1300 897 669
http://www.uws.edu.au/__data/assets/...nsfer_2010.doc MBBS/BArts
Starting from 2009, UWS is expected to receive applications for a new MBBS/BArts program, which has a duration of seven, rather than five years. Three places will be set aside for successful applicants under this scheme. The ATAR required to remain competitive is 99.85, and as such, ten interview offers will be set aside. However, if more than ten competitive candidates apply, the weighted UMAT will be used to determine the final ten offers. Final offers will be determined by the interview solely.
For more information, please visit:
http://future.uws.edu.au/ug/medicine...e_surgery_arts Offer Categories
The School of Medicine will have approximately 120 places within the four different categories of Commonwealth Supported, Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship Scheme (MRBS), Bonded Medical Places (BMP) and International.
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP)
A Commonwealth Supported Place is a higher education place for which the Commonwealth Government makes a contribution towards the cost of the student’s education. Students placed into this category have no bonding or government funded scholarship attached to their enrolment. For more information, please see
http://www.goingtouni.gov.au. The School offers approximately 75 unfettered CSPs each year.
Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship Scheme (MRBS)
The MRBS is a Commonwealth Government initiative to deliver more doctors and improved services to rural communities. Upon completion of the MBBS, students who have entered into a contract with the Commonwealth Government for the scholarship, agree to practice for six years in rural areas of Australia. The School offers approximately four MRBS places each year. The MRBS places are offered after students have commenced the course. For further information regarding the conditions and monetary value of the Scholarship please contact the Department of Health and Ageing on:
Freecall: 1800 248 720
Email:
MRBscholarships@health.gov.au
Website:
http://www.health.gov.au/mrbscholarships
Bonded Medical Places (BMP) Scheme
This scheme was devised by the Commonwealth Government to provide bonded medical places across all existing medical schools, creating additional CSP places that would not otherwise be available. The School offers approximately 26 BMPs each year.
Students who accept a BMP in the medical course agree to work in a district of workforce shortage for a period of five years upon completion of their subsequent vocational training. To obtain further information on the BMP, please contact the Department of Health and Aging on:
Freecall: 1800 987 104
Email:
BMPScheme@health.gov.au
Website:
http://www.health.gov.au/bmpscheme Postal Address
School of Medicine
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC NSW 1797
Australia
School Enquiries
Email:
medstudent@uws.edu.au
Course Enquiries
Australian Students
Tel: 1300 897 669
Fax: + 61 2 9678 7160
Course enquiries form
International Students
Tel: + 61 2 9852 5499
Fax: + 61 2 9685 9298
International course enquiries form
Manager of Medical School Admissions
Ms Lyndal McCulloch
Ph: (02) 9852 4630
Fax: (02) 9852 4630
Email:
l.mcculloch@uws.edu.au
Student Support Officer, School of Medicine
Ms Penny Lee
Ph: (02) 9852 4632
Fax: (02) 9852 4700
Email:
p.lee@uws.edu.au Notes
Deadlines and dates provided for 2010 entry are current as of the 23/6/2010. Statistics likewise should be taken only as a guide. This guide is intended only as a guide and NOT as an exhaustive resource on admission into the UWS MBBS program. Please check the above dates (links are mostly provided) for your own reference.
Useful Links
University of Western Sydney Wiki
UWS Course Description
UWS SOM Website
2010 Entry Requirements - Instructions and Information (PDF)
UWS Medical Society
Information for New Students 09
Photos of UWS School of Medicine
