How to apply

• Each Medical School has a page dedicated to their course option through GEMSAS. Applicants are encourage to view these pages for information about the admission requirements and course options for each Medical School. To view the number and places they offer, please visit Course Places and Quotas.
• Visit the Academic Eligibility Requirements, GAMSAT and GPA Calculations page for further information on your eligibility to apply through GEMSAS and the assessment process.
• Most Medical Schools have sub-quotas and places reserved for applicants who are First Nations peoples, or who have a rural background, or are from specific local areas. Please view the Rurality, First Nations peoples and other Bonuses page for further details. 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 visit the GAMSAT webpage.
• 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.
• The GAMSAT ID you list in your GEMSAS application cannot be amended. If you have completed the GAMSAT across multiple sittings, please review your scores to determine which one you believe is most competitive before submitting your GEMSAS application.

• Applications open in early May 2026 for the 2027 intake. Applications close on Friday 29 May 2026 (5pm AEST; 3pm AWST)
• Apply online.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 2023
• 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

Applicants are required to pay at the time of application submission.

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

To confirm if you are required to provide documentation, please visit our Providing Evidence webpage.

• 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.please vist the GEMSAS Interviews webpage for further information. 
• 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 to withdraw your application. This enables timely interviews 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 
• Email correspondence from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
• Email correspondence sent directly from individual Medical Schools

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