Title: Medical education in Australia - Wikipedia
Headings: Medical education in Australia
Medical education in Australia
Medical Career Pathway
Contents
Medical School
Nomenclature
Undergraduate Entry
Graduate Entry
Syllabus
Internship
Residency
Registrarship / Speciality Training Programs
Registrars
Unaccredited Registrars
Medical Specialist Colleges
Hospitalists / Non-Vocational & Non-Specialist Doctors
Consultant Specialists & General Practitioners
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Recency of Practice
See also
References

Content: that said, students in the MBBS program commonly did nevertheless still pursue research on an extra-curricular basis. Regardless, both MBBS and MD awarded at any Australian medical school qualifies a person to be registered with the Medical Board as a medical practitioner and allow the graduate to be customarily addressed by their prefix title of 'Doctor (Dr.)'. It is also worthwhile to note that while the colloquialism of the term 'physician' in the United States is used to broadly refer to any type of medical practitioner, in Australia and the United Kingdom 'physician' typically refers to a medical practitioner who specialises in the field of internal medicine / general medicine or its sub-specialities; similarly, the 'surgeon' typically refers to a medical practitioner who specialists in a surgical specialty. In order to avoid confusion given the wide interpretation and availability of those who utilise the prefix of 'Doctor (Dr.)' in other professions, the Medical Board and relevant federal and state legislation has chosen to refer medical doctors formally as medical practitioners in Australia. Undergraduate Entry
Medical schools have traditionally in Australia followed the Commonwealth and United Kingdom by admitting students directly from secondary school (high school) matriculates. About half of the medical schools in Australia remain undergraduate in their admission. Applicants apply directly to the medical school and/or through the statewide facilitated university course placement program. Applicants are typically assessed by a combination of their: Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) score which is derived from the state's secondary school exit exam performance,
University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) score which assesses the suitability of the candidate for medicine based on psychometric, logic and reasoning assessment,
Curriculum vitae (CV) and references which should highlight any work experience and extra curricular achievements, such as musical or sporting,
Interview conducted by the respective university's medical school, which are typically multi-station and designed to further psycho-socially assess the candidate's suitability for medicine as well as assessing their merits
Undergraduate medical programs are typically 5 to 6 years in length following the traditional two-semester academic year (the exception to this is Bond University which has a three-semester academic year which allows students to complete the course in 4.6 years).