Monash Medicine MMI: 2027 Direct Entry and 2028 Graduate Entry Guide.

All Monash dates are listed as "subject to change".

Monash lists seven qualities its MMI stations assess (direct entry requirements):

• Advocacy – speaking up for patients or people who are less able to speak for themselves
• Collaboration – working well with others
• Critical thinking – looking at a problem from different sides before you decide
• Empathy – understanding how someone else feels
• Ethical reasoning – working out the right thing to do and explaining why
• Motivation – why you want medicine and what you have done to find out about it
• Resilience – coping with setbacks and learning from them

The Faculty also expects "high standards of ethical behaviour" and stresses equity and diversity (values and vision).

What this means for your answers: Monash says there are no right or wrong answers and no clinical knowledge is expected (graduate entry FAQs). You are assessed on how you think about real-life situations. Advocacy and resilience are less common in other MMIs, so prepare for them on purpose.

1. Book your slot. Invitations come by email. You choose your own time through an online system. Changes are not allowed once booking closes.
2. Set up for Zoom. Find a quiet, private room with a reliable connection. Monash encourages applicants to practice speaking over Zoom (direct entry FAQs).
3. Pre-briefing. The session starts with a briefing. For direct entry, the whole circuit, including briefing and debriefing, takes 70–80 minutes.
4. Six stations in a row. At each station you get 2 minutes to read the scenario, then an 8-minute conversation with an interviewer. Expect follow-up questions that test your reasoning.
5. A new interviewer each time. Each scenario is scored by a different interviewer (graduate entry FAQs). A weak station does not carry over to the next one.
6. Debrief and wait. No feedback is given. For direct entry, your MMI result is combined with your ATAR aggregate and UCAT ANZ score once ATARs are released.

You only get one attempt. You can attend the MMI for a course only once. If you apply again, your earlier score is used. Interviewing for direct entry does not count against a later graduate entry application.

• Who you are up against. Direct entry applicants are high school graduates ranked on ATAR, UCAT ANZ and MMI. Graduate entry applicants come from set Monash degrees and are ranked on WAM and MMI, with the interview worth 60%.
• When you interview. Graduate entry interviews are in September. Direct entry interviews are in December and January, often before you know your ATAR. Victorian and Dean's Rural List applicants in the December rounds are shortlisted on UCAT ANZ only.
• Rural focus. The Dean's Rural List (DRL) applies to both routes. In graduate entry, at least 27% of places are set aside for DRL applicants, and 35 of about 72 domestic places go to the End-to-End Rural Cohorts (graduate entry requirements; End-to-End Rural Cohorts). If you apply through a rural route, expect your interest in rural health to come up.
• What you can draw on. Graduate entry applicants have a degree's worth of experience to talk about. Direct entry applicants should use school, work, sport, volunteering and family experiences. Monash says volunteer work is not scored but can help you answer questions.

Based on Monash's seven qualities, expect stations on:

• Ethical dilemmas where you have to weigh up competing duties, such as honesty and loyalty.
• Advocacy, where someone is being treated unfairly or cannot speak up for themselves.
• Teamwork and conflict, such as a group member not pulling their weight.
• Empathy and communication, for example responding to someone who is upset.
• Critical thinking about a health or social issue, where you need to give more than one view.
• Motivation, covering why medicine, what you have learned about the job and why Monash.
• Resilience, covering a setback, what you learned and what you would do differently.

With 8 minutes and a live interviewer, expect follow-ups such as "What if that didn't work?" or "What would the other person say?"

Make your answer specific to Monash and to the route you are applying for:

• Direct entry: Two years at Clayton, then three years of hospital and community placements. These include major hospitals such as Monash Medical Centre and The Alfred (course page). The course uses small-group case learning and early clinical contact, includes a research placement with a researcher or clinician, and finishes with a trainee internship final year.
• Graduate entry: First year is at Monash Rural Health Churchill in Gippsland. The North West Cohort places students across the Loddon Mallee region, including Bendigo, Mildura and Swan Hill, and a new Gippsland Cohort starts in 2027 (End-to-End Rural Cohorts).
• Rural training: Monash Rural Health teaches the MD at eight sites: Bairnsdale, Bendigo, Churchill, Leongatha, Mildura, Sale, Traralgon and Warragul (rural health footprint).
• Research and advocacy: The Faculty aims to turn biomedical and public health research into better health outcomes and to advocate for good policy (values and vision).

Link one or two of these to your own experience. For example, if you grew up in regional Victoria, talk about what rural training means to you.