Key dates for 2025 to start Medicine courses in 2026
Please see the Medical School Entries in the Medicine Admissions Guide for details about:
- The information sessions they host for prospective applicants.
- Other Medical School specific dates.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | Register for the GAMSAT (for details visit ACER's GAMSAT website) |
| 1-2 March 2025 and 21-23 March 2025 | GAMSAT March testing windows |
| April 2025 | Order academic transcripts if you attended (at any time) a university not participating in Automated Results Transfer System (ARTS). This includes tertiary studies you undertook overseas, including while on exchange or study abroad programs. |
| early April 2025 | Medicine Admission Guide published on the GEMSAS website |
| 1 May 2025 | Due date for University of Queensland prerequisite assessment requests. See the University of Queensland entry in the Medicine Admissions Guide for details. |
| early May 2025 | Applications open for Medicine at all GEMSAS medical schools |
| 30 May 2025 | Applications close at 5pm (AEST) for Medicine at all GEMSAS medical schools |
| 6 June 2025 | GEMSAS application payments close at 5pm (AEST) |
| By 5pm AEST, 16 June 2025 |
Supporting documents uploaded and/or emailed to the relevant email address for academic, school specific and rurality claims.
Please check the Medicine Admissions Guide for dates. Due dates may vary for some medical schools. |
| By 5pm AEST, 16 July 2025 | Due date to upload academic transcripts for studies undertaken in 2025 at universities that don’t use the Automated Results Transfer System (ARTS). The transcript should include results for subjects you took in the first-half of 2025, and list the subjects you’re planning in undertake in the second half of 2025. |
| early September 2025 |
Interview offers released. Notification also sent to applicants unsuccessful in receiving an interview offer. |
| September/October 2025 | Interviews held. See the Medical School entries in the Medicine Admissions Guide for interview details. |
| end of October/early November 2025 |
Release of place offers to start Medicine courses in the following year. The email will include advice about how to accept or decline the offer and enrol in the course, and the associated deadlines. |
| COB 23 December 2025 | Due date for applicants offered a place by mid-December 2025 to start a Medicine course in 2026 to meet any offer conditions (e.g., to meet place offer conditions, applicants who were studying in 2025 may need to provide final subjects results and/or show they’ve successfully completed their course). |
| November 2025/December 2025/January 2026 | Additional place offers made to fill vacancies in Medicine courses |
| Late January 2026/February 2026 | Most GEMSAS Medical School courses start in late January or February. See the Medical School entries in the Medicine Admissions Guide or their website, or course place offer emails, for details. |