Notre Dame Fremantle MMI 2028: Your Interview Guide.

Notre Dame also publishes the average GPA and GAMSAT of applicants at the interview stage. For the 2026 intake at Fremantle and Broome, this was a GPA of 6.60 and a GAMSAT of 65.50 (Notre Dame – Doctor of Medicine).

Notre Dame is a Catholic university. Its stated mission is to provide university education "within a context of Catholic faith and values", and its guiding principles include academic excellence, active community engagement and responsible stewardship (Notre Dame – Our vision).

The Fremantle School of Medicine says its purpose is to graduate doctors who will serve areas of unmet need, especially Australia's remote and rural areas. It also highlights Indigenous health, bioethics, advocacy and social justice (School of Medicine, Fremantle). The MD learning outcomes include person-centred and culturally safe care, communication and teamwork, ethics and professionalism, reflective practice, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives (Notre Dame – Doctor of Medicine).

What this means for your answers:

• Show that you think about people, not just problems. Talk about the patient's dignity, wishes and circumstances.
• Show fair, careful ethical reasoning. Notre Dame teaches bioethics as part of the degree, so explain how you weigh up options.
• Show that you understand health is not the same everywhere in Western Australia. Distance, access to services and culture all matter.
• Be honest and reflective. Talk about what you learned from experiences, not just what you did.

1. Invitation. Interview offers usually come out in September (for the 2027 intake, September 2026). Read the email carefully. It tells you the deadline, the platform and the rules.
2. Set up. You need a computer with a working camera and microphone, a steady internet connection and a quiet, well-lit room.
3. Log in within your window. Because the MMI is recorded, you choose when to complete it within the time Notre Dame gives you. Do not leave it to the last day in case of technical problems.
4. Answer each station. A prompt appears on screen (this may be a question, a scenario or a picture or quote). You then record your answer while a timer runs. There is no interviewer to nod, ask follow-up questions or tell you how long is left.
5. Move through all stations. Each station is a fresh start. A weak answer in one station does not have to affect the next.
6. Scoring. Your recordings are reviewed after you submit. The interview counts for half of your final ranking for an offer.

Check your invitation for the exact number of stations, the time per station, whether there is thinking time and whether a practice question is offered. Do not assume these are the same as another university's MMI.

These are the kinds of areas a Notre Dame MMI may cover. Themes only, not real questions:

• Motivation: why medicine, and why Notre Dame, Fremantle or Broome.
• Ethics: respect for life and dignity, consent, honesty, fairness in how health resources are shared.
• Rural and remote health: working with limited resources, distance from specialist care, and the challenge of keeping doctors in country towns.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: cultural safety, trust and listening to communities.
• Teamwork and professionalism: working with nurses, Aboriginal health workers and other staff; dealing with a colleague who is struggling.
• Communication: explaining something clearly, showing empathy, speaking as if to a patient or friend.
• Reflection: a time you made a mistake, faced a challenge or changed your mind.
• Picture or quote prompts: responding to an image or a short statement and giving a balanced view.

Good answers are specific and honest. Some real features you can draw on:

• A clear rural and remote mission. The Fremantle school says its purpose is to train doctors for areas of unmet need, especially rural and remote Australia (School of Medicine, Fremantle). At least 28.5% of Commonwealth supported places must go to students from a rural background (GEMSAS).
• The Broome option. At the Kimberley Centre for Remote Medical Training (KCRMT), Years 1 and 2 are in Broome and Years 3 and 4 are in regional WA training hubs (GEMSAS). Notre Dame says the centre aims to train local people who want to stay and work in their own communities, and to reduce reliance on short-term visiting doctors in towns such as Newman (Notre Dame news, May 2025). It is WA's only fully remote medical training program (Notre Dame news, August 2025).
• Rural Clinical School of WA. Fremantle students can apply for rural placements through the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (GEMSAS), which runs across sites such as Albany, Broome, Bunbury, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Kununurra and Port Hedland (RCSWA sites).
• Small-group learning. Years 1 and 2 use problem-based learning in small groups, and students have mentors from the start of the program (School of Medicine, Fremantle).
• Ethics built in. The university's Core Curriculum is taught within the MD as bioethics (Notre Dame – Core Curriculum).
• The health gap you would be training to close. National data show people in remote and very remote areas carry a higher burden of disease and see GPs less often than people in major cities (AIHW – Rural and remote health).

Only choose Broome or Fremantle if you can commit to the whole program there. Notre Dame says transfers are granted only in exceptional circumstances (GEMSAS). If you mention a campus in your answer, make sure your reasons match the choice you made.

If you have a Notre Dame interview coming up, book a free 15-minute call to talk through your situation. We can help with one-to-one coaching on what the MMI assesses and with realistic mock interviews in the recorded format: [Book a free call](book a free call).