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Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine
5 years full-time, up to maximum of 7 years 
Hobart, Launceston, Cradle Coast
5 years full-time Hobart, Launceston* 
CRICOS 107736D
Clinical Experience
Access to training within the Tasmanian health system gives you hands-on mentoring and clinical experience.
Placements for success
Our medical course has a 100% intern placement rate in Tasmanian hospitals.
Learning Facilities
Learn in our state-of-the-art facilities and alongside skilled practitioners.
Application closing dates for 2026 study for international students only
- Offer Round 1: 30 May 2025
- Offer Round 2: 31 July 2025
- Offer Round 3: 30 September 2025
- Offer Round 4: 30 November 2025
Prepare for a meaningful career in medicine
Our Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (BMedScMD) is designed to support your journey to becoming a doctor, with a strong focus on both academic learning and real-world experience. You'll be prepared to take on a leadership role in healthcare and make a positive impact in your community.
Foundation years
In your first two years, you’ll build a solid foundation through lectures, tutorials, and hands-on practical classes. You’ll also begin to meet patients early in your studies, gaining insight into different healthcare settings – especially in community and rural areas. This early exposure helps you develop the adaptability and understanding needed for a wide range of medical environments.
Clinical years
From your third year, your learning will shift into clinical settings. Over the final three years, you’ll take part in immersive clinical placements that prepare you for your internship and future medical career.
You’ll rotate through a variety of clinical areas, including electives, and complete your placements at one of our three Clinical Schools.
You may be allocated to any of these locations, where you’ll learn alongside other health professionals and develop strong teamwork and communication skills.
To support your growth beyond clinical practice, you’ll also have the chance to take on a professional practice project. This is a great opportunity to explore areas like research, leadership, innovation, and health system improvement – skills that are highly valued in today’s healthcare landscape.
Clinical schools
Rural Clinical School
The Rural Clinical School has taught medical students in the final years of their medical degree since 2002. From 2025, the Rural Clinical School is training future doctors for the entire Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (BMedScMD) degree through the Tasmanian Rural Training Stream.
We are one of 18 Rural Clinical Schools around Australia, supported by the Commonwealth Government’s Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training Program, established to train health professionals in rural and remote Australia to boost workforces in those areas. Students and medical staff are increasingly choosing to study and work rurally for the unique training opportunities and experiences rural practice provides.
RCS students experience placements across the North West Coast of Tasmania in Burnie and Latrobe, with a particular focus on rural medicine, emergency care and integrated primary care. Our students are also hosted by local private General Practices and homes for people in Aged Care.
In their final years, RCS students experience rural medical placements in the communities of Smithton, Queenstown and on King Island, and are provided with a high level of hands-on rural learning opportunities alongside patients and clinicians. Students gain professional development while leading community engagement activities in schools and at local events.
The Rural Clinical School has developed a strong national reputation for excellence in rural medical education. Our students are well-equipped to work in rural or metropolitan hospitals as interns after completing their studies, and each year, our graduates are extremely successful in gaining internships at their hospitals of choice, including the nearby North-West Regional Hospital. This has been achieved by the enthusiasm of our academic team, and excellent relationships with regional health and community partners.
Our people
Rural Clinical School Administration
Email - RCS.Admin@utas.edu.au
Hobart Clinical School
The Hobart Clinical School (HCS) is one of three Clinical Schools associated with the Tasmanian School of Medicine at the University of Tasmania.
The Hobart Clinical School has existed on this current site since 1960. Located on Level 3, F block within the Royal Hobart Hospital, with main access via ’the big white stairs’ at 43 Collins Street. The location includes several teaching spaces and a dedicated simulation area, academic staff offices, as well as a student common room and study spaces. The Albert G Baikie Clinical Library is located on the Ground floor.
The co-location of the School allows us to support our students completing professional experience placements in The Royal Hobart Hospital. RHH is Tasmania's largest hospital and the major specialist referral centre and as a primary centre of clinical teaching and research, it has a strong collaborative relationship with the University of Tasmania.
Our multidisciplinary team at Hobart Clinical School includes nurses, general practitioners, physicians, surgeons, public health physicians; and specialty rotation coordinators, including emergency medicine and critical care consultants, paediatricians, women’s health and obstetric specialists, and psychiatrists. We have an active group of junior doctors who regularly participate in delivering teaching.
We are grateful for our honorary clinical staff who participate in teaching and assessment within the program.
We also have a team of dedicated professional staff on site who assist in all aspects of program delivery and assessment.
Hobart Clinical School has formal relationships with the Calvary Hospitals, ICON Cancer Centre, Breast Screen Tasmania, Queen Victoria Care as well as a multitude of urban and rural General Practices.
We are grateful for the community of Southern Tasmania who are willing to have our students included in their health care, so they can learn and gain practical experience to become good future doctors.
Our people
Doctor Louise Prentice
Director, Hobart Clinical School
Hobart Clinical School Administration
Email - hcs.admin@utas.edu.au
Launceston Clinical School
The Launceston Clinical School was formed in 2004. Since 2011, it has occupied the top floor of the Launceston General Hospital’s Northern Integrated Care Service building at 41 Frankland St, Launceston. It is a learning space designed to support our medical students with space for case-based learning, simulation training, small group tutorials, online learning, and access to online resources.
LCS fosters relationships with key clinical care delivery organisations such as the Launceston General Hospital and other Tasmanian Health Services facilities, Calvary Hospital’s St Lukes and St Vincents campuses, and the premises of other privately funded organisations such as northern General Practices. These facilities and their clinicians provide supervision and teaching for our medical students as students train to be future doctors.
We are very grateful to the people of Tasmania who are willing to have our students included in their healthcare when visiting their GP or hospital service.
Launceston Clinical School
Email - LCS.admin@utas.edu.au
Electives
The University of Tasmania offers clinical elective placements to visiting students in their penultimate or final year of University in Australia or overseas.
Study options
The BMedScMD curriculum has four Domains as its organising principle, under which the learning outcomes are grouped and assessed. They incorporate the University of Tasmania's graduate profile objectives and the Australian Medical Council’s recommendations regarding knowledge, skills and attitudes of a medical graduate.
The four Domains are:
- Clinical Practice (the medical graduate as practitioner)
- Professionalism and Leadership (the medical graduate as a professional and leader)
- Health and Society (the medical graduate as a health advocate) and
- Science and Scholarship (the medical graduate as scientist and scholar).
Teaching and learning strategies have been designed to challenge students to explore current concepts and develop new thinking.
The curriculum uses a learner-centred approach, seeking to help students respond flexibly to unfamiliar and complex information or situations.
An important principle is 'situated' learning which encourages engagement and enhances recall. There is a focus on regular Case Based Learning (CBL) activities to integrate and reinforce important concepts.
Beginning in 2025, students will be able to study their whole BMedScMD course on the beautiful North West Coast of Tasmania. Students can apply for this option through the Tasmanian Rural Training Stream.
We prioritise entry to this scheme for applicants from rural and regional areas. If you are from a rural area and interested in a rural career, this training stream is for you!
From 2025, 20 domestic places are available to applicants applying for the Tasmanian Rural Training Stream.
Priority for this training stream will be the rural and regional footprint defined as a geographical area comprising all Tasmanian MM3-7 locations, as well as Tasmanian postcodes beginning with 73(XX) and 72(XX).
Places in this scheme are open to all domestic applicants and assessed on the same criteria. Information for the 2025 intake is now available on the course page.
Acceptance of a place in the Tasmanian Rural Training Stream will require you to complete all years of your BMedScMD course at the Cradle Coast campus (Burnie) and associated training sites.
From 2026, students commencing the Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (BMedScMD) at the University of Tasmania will have the option to study in Launceston.
If you are an applicant from the north of the state, studying in Launceston will give you the opportunity to study locally throughout your medical degree. For all students who study in Launceston, it is an opportunity to learn in new state-of-the-art facilities at the Inveresk Precinct and form early connections with lecturers, clinicians and health professionals living and working in Tasmania’s beautiful North.
There will be twenty additional Commonwealth Supported Places in each Launceston intake from 2026. Successful applicants will join a vibrant community of medicine students currently undertaking the clinical years of their degree at the Launceston Clinical School, Launceston General Hospital, and associated clinics.
How to Apply
Apply online and include the Launceston campus as one of your BMedScMD preferences.
You can apply to study the BMedScMD at one or more of Tasmania’s campuses - Hobart, Cradle Coast, and/or Launceston – just order your preferences according to where you would most like to study.
Remember to provide your current and past home addresses to be considered for Rural and Tasmanian quotas via the Rural Application Process – you will be prompted after selecting a BMedScMD course preference. Applications close strictly on 30 September each year.
For details of entry requirements, refer to the course page.
Need more help?
Details of entry requirements are on the course page. If you have any questions, contact us at course.info@utas.edu.au or call 13 8827.
Do you live in a regional or remote area of Australia, including any part of Tasmania? If so, you may be eligible to apply via the Rural Application Process, which supports students from rural areas to study medicine.
All you need to do is provide information about your current and past residential address(es) when completing your application online.
For advice and further information, please visit Rural Application Process, or contact us with your enquiry.
We are committed to supporting those who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander to achieve their educational aspirations.
An Aboriginal Entry Pathway exists to facilitate access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to enter the Medicine Program.
Further study options
Enhance your career with further postgraduate studies. For information on our postgraduate study options, please visit our further study page.
All healthcare professionals are required to complete further professional development as part of maintaining their registration. We offer a broad suite of study options whether your aim is to further develop your clinical skills or to build leadership skills.
Please visit the Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine course page for further information on the degree, including application dates and entry requirements.
* Subject to international student visa conditions if applicable.
Career opportunities
Once you've completed the Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine, you'll be eligible to apply for provisional registration to undertake training in an approved hospital as an intern.
On successful completion of your internship, you can apply for general registration as a Medical Practitioner in Australia and New Zealand. You'll also be able to choose an area of specialisation in which to develop your future career.
Graduates can apply to specialise in a wide variety of fields such as general practice, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, pathology, anaesthesia, radiology or psychiatry.
Graduates may also become medical administrators in hospitals or government departments, or develop academic careers which include teaching and medical research.
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