Canberra, Wednesday 30 January 2001

Foundation medical school Dean starts at ANU

The foundation Dean of ANU’s new medical school, Professor Paul Gatenby, has formally begun work at the University.
His early tasks will be to make key academic appointments and develop the school’s teaching curriculum for accreditation of the school by the Australian Medical Council.
The new medical program, expected to take its first students in 2004, will focus on training for rural and community medicine and will have a problem-based learning curriculum and the Federal Government has allocated 25 Rural Bonded Scholarships to the school.
Professor Gatenby said he was pleased that the school had already attracted interest from prospective students for the first intake of 60 graduate-entry places in 2004.
“While we are not yet taking applications, we are able to advise prospective students of the broad requirements for admission,” Professor Gatenby said.
“These will be similar to those for other graduate-entry medical programs in Australia.
“First, students will need a credit point average in a prior undergraduate degree.
“Then, they’ll need to satisfy the requirements of the Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admission Test (GAMSAT), which is administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).
“The final step will be an interview with academic staff of the medical school.”
Professor Gatenby said that people wanting to study in the school, and who would complete undergraduate degrees in 2003, would need to apply to ACER to sit the GAMSAT during that year.
A web page that would provide up-to-date date information on the medical school and its program would be launched shortly.

For more information contact:
Professor Paul Gatenby on (02) 6125 2198 or
Jim Mahoney, Director, Marketing and Public Affairs, (02) 6125 2252; mobile 0416 249 231

No: 11/2001

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