Monash Medicine in review – Year 5D: MED5101/5103/5105

Placement

With the exception of the Scholarly Intensive Placement, year 5D is taught entirely from clinical sites like the preceding 2 clinical years. Like year 3B and unlike 4C, the focus returns to acute care general hospital medicine, with a focus on preparation for the… »

Monash Medicine in review – BMedSc(Hons): MED4301/4302

The Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours), or BMedSc(Hons), is an optional 1-year research degree.¹ It can be undertaken any time after year 3B of the Monash medicine course, but by far the most common time to undertake it is between years 4C… »

Monash Medicine in review – Year 4C: MED4100/4200

Note: I undertook year 4C in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Significant disruptions and changes resulted during this year, which may or may not reflect the situation in the future.

Placement

Year 4C, like year 3B, is taught entirely from clinical sites. Unlike year 3B,… »

Monash Medicine in review – Year 3B: MED3100/3200

Year 3B is the first clinical year of the Monash medicine course, and is based entirely within hospital sites, not the main university campus. If the transition from year 12 to medical school is a significant change, the transition from preclinical to clinical medicine is… »

Monash Medicine in review – Year 2: MED2100/2200

Having settled into the swing of year 1 semester 2, year 2 is in many respects more of the same.

Content

Like year 1, year 2 comprises 2 year-long units, MED2100 (pass-fail) and MED2200 (graded), delivered from the main university campus at Clayton.¹

Like… »

Monash Medicine in review – Year 1: MED1100/1200

Coming straight from year 12 into university is not a small change. The cohort is much larger, and you may not know many people. You're considered an adult now, and there is a much greater focus on directing your own study.

At the same time,… »

Monash Medicine in review – Getting to Monash Clayton

As a proud south-east suburbs Adelaidean, before moving to Melbourne, trains were mythical creatures and anything more than 15 minutes' drive away was farmland. Flying in to Melbourne for an interview, and then for medicine, trying to get to Clayton was an experience. Here's what… »

Monash Medicine in review – Admission experience

As described previously, there are both undergraduate and graduate entry pathways into Monash medicine. As a domestic (interstate) undergraduate-entry student, that is what I'll be focusing on here. Note also that I applied in 2017, and while I have endeavoured to update information to… »

Monash Medicine in review – Overview of Monash Medicine

Monash University is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia, and the largest university in Australia. The Monash University School of Medicine is the largest medical school in Australia.¹

Beginning with the class of 2020, the medical degree awarded is the Bachelor of Medical… »

Monash Medicine in review – MED1100 semester 1

New edition available

This post is quite outdated, and I've written a revised series here. For the curious, the original text of this post is below.

So let's suppose you've just graduated Year 12, got an interview offer for undergraduate medicine at Monash, and… »

Monash Medicine in review – Interviews and offers

New edition available

This post is quite outdated, and I've written a revised series here. For the curious, the original text of this post is below.

So let's suppose your fresh out of Year 12, or maybe a gap year, armed with a (fingers-crossed… »