How to apply

• See the Medicine Admissions Guide for information about the entry requirements and course options for each Medical School, and the number and types of places that they offer (e.g., Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs), Bonded Medical Places (BMPs) and full-fee places). 
• Medical Schools allocate quotas for each offer type (CSP, BMP, and full-fee if applicable). School’s usually offer places, using their ranked list of applicants, in the following order: CSP, BMP and full-fee (if applicable). As part of your GEMSAS application some Medical Schools will ask you to rank all offer types, while others will ask you to indicate which offer types you are prepared to accept if offered. If offered a place, it will be for one offer type only.
• Most Medical Schools have sub-quotas and places reserved for applicants who are Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, or who have a rural background, or are from specific local areas.  Please provide all relevant details so you can be considered for these places.  Medical Schools sometimes waive some selection criteria for these applicants.

Performance on the GAMSAT, with other criteria such as the GPA, are used by Medical Schools for selection purposes. GAMSAT results are valid for use in your medical application for up to four years. You must ensure that the GAMSAT sitting you wish to be considered falls within the acceptable timeframe .

For detailed information on how GAMSAT scores are considered in interview and place offer selection, and the few cases when the GAMSAT isn’t required, please refer to the Medicine Admissions Guide.

Registration for the GAMSAT, and GEMSAS applications for admission to the graduate medicine courses, are separate processes. Any GAMSAT specific questions should be directed to ACER who manage the GAMSAT test.

• Applications open in early May 2025 for the 2026 intake. Applications close on Friday 30 May 2025 (5pm AEST; 3pm AWST).
• Apply online (add link https://applygemsas.edu.au). Click the ‘Online Application’ button and then hit ‘Register’.
• As part of your application, you can select (i.e., preference) up to 6 Medicine courses and nominate the types of places you wish to be considered for (e.g., Commonwealth Supported Place, Bonded Medical Place, full fee).
• You will need to indicate the order in which you would like to be considered for each Medical School: if you are not offered a place at the Medical School you listed as your first preference, you will then be considered by your lower preferenced Medical Schools.
• Complete the Rural Background section of the application if you have resided (physically lived) for 5 years consecutively or 10 years cumulatively since birth according to the Modified Monash Model 2019
• Carefully check your application before you submit it.  Once submitted you can only update your contact details via your GEMSAS account, or study claims by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• If you submit more than one GEMSAS application, only your first submitted application will be assessed, regardless of which application you paid for.

Payment is made within your GEMSAS account, after the successful submission of your application.

The application fee is in Australian dollars and is GST inclusive.

To pay:

• Log in to your GEMSAS account
• Click on the “My Applications” heading on the left-hand side menu
• Select the “Pay” option listed underneath your Medicine application
• Choose whether you would like to pay via PayPal or Debit/Credit Card and follow the prompts on the screen.

Once you have completed payment, you will receive an email confirming successful receipt of payment in the “My Emails” section of your GEMSAS account.

After you have submitted and paid for your GEMSAS application, you will be able to view a list of the specific documents you need to provide in the ‘Documentation’ section of your GEMSAS Account.

The ‘Documentation’ section of your GEMSAS Account: 

• States how you need to submit your documents, which will be either via the ‘upload’ function in your GEMSAS account or sent via email. 
• Provides the document coversheets that must be attached to your documentation.

In summary, you will need to provide documents if:

• You’ve undertaken tertiary studies at any time at an overseas institution (including on exchange or study abroad programs) or at an Australian university that does not use the Automated Results Transfer Service (ARTS).
• You've undertaken tertiary studies in a language other than English. In these cases, your original academic transcript must be accompanied by an official translation by a NAATI translator (featuring the translator’s original stamp and signature on every page).  See the Academic Document Submission Guidelines for instructions on supplying digital translation documents (which feature a digitally inserted stamp or QR code).
• You need to provide evidence of having met the English Language Competency requirement.
• You’ve indicated in your GEMSAS application you have an Australian rural background (see the Rural Schemes section).
• You’ve indicated in your GEMSAS application that you are applying for a Deakin Bonus.
• Required by the individual Medical Schools you’re applying to via GEMSAS.

You are not required to provide documentation:

• For studies undertaken at an Australian university that uses the Automated Results Transfer Service (ARTS) . Please note that GEMSAS does not accept transcripts or statements intended to clarify study for which results are provided via ARTS.
• If there has been no change to your education history and you applied through GEMSAS within the last two years.
• If you applied for a Deakin bonus in 2022, 2023 or 2024, provided documentation and were deemed eligible.

Other notes and tips:

• Submit required documents ASAP after you’ve paid the GEMSAS application fee and before the due dates noted in the table below. Submission of documents before the application fee is paid is not possible.
• Only submit documents that have been specifically requested. These will be listed on the ‘Documentation’ page of your GEMSAS account.
• Supporting documents for any study at Diploma level and below are only required if that study has contributed to a Bachelor level or higher qualification.
• Follow the instructions provided on the documentation coversheet found in your GEMSAS Account to ensure you’re using the correct submission method. See the table below for details.
• You will be contacted by GEMSAS if further documentation is required.

Please see the Key dates for information about when interview invitations and course place offers are issued.

Some applicants are invited to interview.  If offered an interview if will be at one Medical School only. See the interview section in the Medicine Admissions Guide for more information.

Only applicants who are interviewed will be considered for a course place offer. 

If you receive a course offer and decline it, you won’t receive another course offer for that intake. You can reapply in a subsequent year.

If you are offered a place in another course or by an institution not participating in GEMSAS and you intend to accept that place, please promptly contact GEMSAS (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to withdraw your application.  This enables timely interview and course place offers to be issued to other GEMSAS applicants.

Email is the main way GEMSAS contacts applicants. Occasionally letters may be sent to your nominated postal address. 

Make sure you:

• Regularly check your emails, including junk or spam folders, as GEMSAS may email you at any time during the application process, including the interview and course place offer stages.

• Provide an email address that will be valid from April in the year you submit your GEMSAS application until February in the following year. We recommend using a personal email address instead of a university address unless you are sure the university address will remain active during this period.   
• If you need to change your email address, log in to your GEMSAS Account, click ‘Account’ in the top right-hand corner, and then select ‘Change email”.
• You can update your other contact and personal details using the menu items on the left-hand side of your GEMSAS Account. 

Neither GEMSAS or the GEMSAS Medical Schools will be held responsible for undeliverable or unread emails.  

Please save the following email addresses to your safe sender list

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The following GEMSAS emails will be listed in ‘My Emails’ in your GEMSAS account

• Confirmation of registration, application submission, and application payment
• Emails from the GEMSAS Assessment Team about academic documents, education study claims, etc
• Undeclared study and outcome emails
• Interview offer and/or course place offers, if these notifications are sent on behalf of the Medical School by GEMSAS
• Unsuccessful notifications for interview and course place offer
• Courtesy reminders.

The following emails won’t appear in ‘My Emails’ in your GEMSAS account. These will be sent to the email account that you provided.

• GEMSAS Rural background emails 
• GEMSAS Deakin adjustment (bonus) emails 
• Interview and/or course place offers, if these are offers are sent directly from the Medical School 
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• Email correspondence sent directly from individual Medical Schools.