Pattern of enrolment for the Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Students enrol in the following components of the MD:

1. Academic Stage 1 (Year 1)
2. Academic Stage 2 (Year 2)
3. Academic Stage 3 (Year 3) for students completing Stage 3 (Year 3) prior to 2017
4. Academic Stage 3 (Year 4) for students who completed Stage 3 (Year 3) and MDMP5331 in 2016 or earlier
5. Academic Stage 3 (Year 3) for students enrolling or re-enrolling in Stage 3 (Year 3) from 2017
6. Academic Stage 3 (Year 4) who completed Year 3 and MDMP5341 in 2016
7. Stage 3 Streams

All units of study are compulsory unless otherwise noted.

1. Academic Stage 1 (Year 1)

2. Academic Stage 2 (Year 2)

3. Academic Stage 3 (Year 3) for students completing Stage 3 (Year 3) prior to 2017

4. Academic Stage 3 (Year 4) for students commencing Stage 3 (Year 4) in 2017 or for students who completed Stage 3 (Year 3) and MDMP5331 in 2016 or earlier

5. Academic Stage 3 (Year 3) for students enrolling or re-enrolling in Stage 3 (Year 3) from 2017

6. Academic Stage 3 (Year 4) for students who completed Year 3 and MDMP5341 in 2016

7. Stage 3 Streams

Stage 3 of the Medical Program is run as an integrated course. Students are allocated to one of four streams. In each stream, students complete 10 clinical Blocks as outlined above over the two-year period in one of four different sequences, as shown below. This equates to 96 credit points.

As outlined above, the Blocks comprise Medicine Year 3 (MED(3)) and Year 4 (MED(4), Surgery (SURG), Critical Care (CC), Community (COM), Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine (PAAM), Perinatal and Women’s Health (PWH), Child and Adolescent Health (CAH), Elective (EL) and Pre-Internship (PRINT).