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Issue 1: Year 12 Accelerated Entry Pathway

Many of you read the Advertiser article “Medicine Places Increase” April 29th 2009 (available at http://blogs.flinders.edu.au/medicine/2009/04/29/medicine-places-increase/) which announced the incorporation of a Year 12 Accelerated pathway into the Flinders Graduate Entry Medical Program. Below is some information that will clarify some of the misconceptions of the article.

Details:

• Cohort size: 25 secondary school leavers in 2010

• Eligibility: this pathway is exclusively for school leavers and applicants without any previous academic record of University Study.

• Applicants must meet a minimum TER of 95 (or equivalent) and complete the UMAT.
• Places will be offered via a ranking system based on an entry score combining TER (90%) and UMAT-derived score (10%) (N.B. Heavy weighting on sections 1 & 2 of UMAT)
  

• Exclusions:

• International Students cannot apply via this pathway,
• Students with a TER <95 (these students may follow the traditional entry pathway)

• N.B. this pathway will not include an interview

• Program: students will complete the first two years of an undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Clinical Sciences) and subject to students passing all topics and maintaining a credit average (GPA 5.0) are guaranteed entry into the BMBS course.

• During the undergraduate component, students are required to pass a communication skills subject (intended to parallel the assessment criteria of the interview.)
• This pathway will be offered on a full time basis only and subsequently will take students 6 years to complete.

• Final Qualifications: Students will graduate with a degree in Bachelor of Clinical Science/ Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery