Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery for 2013

At a glance

2013 Handbook entry 

Career opportunities

After graduating, you initially work within the hospital system. Several years later, you can choose to undertake further training and become a general practitioner or specialist in a range of areas, such as obstetrics, paediatrics or psychiatry.

You are also eligible for professional registration with the Medical Board of Australia. After serving a compulsory internship year of residence in an approved hospital, you become eligible for final registration in Victoria and other Australian states.

Why study Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery?

This truly international degree gives you the chance to study at one of the world's top medical schools and graduate with a qualification to practise medicine in Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.

Offered over five years at our Sunway campus in Malaysia, this interdisciplinary course provides world-class training in biomedical sciences, social sciences and clinical skills.

The course is organised around four themes - personal and professional development; population, society, health and illness; the scientific basis of clinical practice; and clinical skills.

Your first two years are at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences (JCSDMHS), where you quickly develop your clinical skills with contact visits to medical practices, community-care facilities and hospitals and spend two weeks as a healthcare team member in a rural area.

In years three to five, you're based at the Clinical School in Johor Bahru, where your clinical studies centre around the Sultanah Aminah Hospital.

Your busy schedule of clinical rotations in year five, ahead of graduation, includes a placement in an Australian hospital.

As testimony to the course's quality, Sunway graduate Shaun Yo was Monash's top medical student in 2011, when he won the Sophie Davis Memorial Prize for having the highest overall aggregate marks. Over half our Sunway graduates have found placements and work in Australian hospitals.

The course draws on Monash's world-leading expertise in medical practice and research, which includes treating premature babies at risk of brain disease, replacing heart valves without open-heart surgery and developing new cancer drugs.

It also draws on JCSMHS's particular strengths in the cardio-metabolic field, infection and immunity, global public health and neuroscience.

Our JCSMHS researchers have discovered new genes and hormones that show promise as targeting proteins for cancer research. They have also patented discoveries likely to lead to new products for treating infectious and cardiovascular diseases.

The JCSMHS is also home to the renowned Brain Research Institute at Monash Sunway, now collaborating with the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) to provide a platform for neuroscientists in the region through seminars and training programs.

Entry requirements

View entry requirements and applications for domestic students

Duration

5 years full-time

Fees for 2013

Fees are subject to change annually.

Fee information not presently available.

From 1 January 2012 all students pay a Student Services and Amenities fee each calendar year.

Note: Fees for courses offered in Malaysia and South Africa will differ from those shown here.

Intakes

First Semester (March)

Attendances

  • On-campus at Malaysia: full-time

Note: attendances for courses offered in Malaysia and South Africa will differ from those shown here.

Faculty

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Course code: 3856

CRICOS code:

Find out more

Enquire now   Apply now   Entry requirements   telephone +(603) 5636 0600 ext 3704/3705; email admissions@monash.edu.my or visit http://www.med.monash.edu.au/medical/malaysia/admission.html

Entry requirements

View entry requirements and applications for international students

Duration

5 years full-time

Fees for 2013

Fees are subject to change annually.

Fee information not presently available.

From 1 January 2012 all students pay a Student Services and Amenities fee each calendar year.

Note: Fees for courses offered in Malaysia and South Africa will differ from those shown here.

Intakes

First Semester (March)

Attendances

  • On-campus at Malaysia: full-time

Note: attendances for courses offered in Malaysia and South Africa will differ from those shown here.

Faculty

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Course code: 3856

CRICOS code:

Find out more

Enquire now   Apply now   Entry requirements  

Malaysia Student Enquiries

Telephone: +60 3 5514 6000
Email: info@monash.edu.my

Admissions information for domestic students

Entry requirements

Minimum entrance requirements

Satisfactory completion of an appropriate pre-university qualification.

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Applications

Semester one (March)

Applications for on campus studies should be made online through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre.

Admissions information for international students

Entry requirements

English requirements for international students

Gaining the required result in one of the following tests of English language:

IELTS score of 7.0 with no individual band score less than 6.5.

A TOEFL minimum test score of either;

in the written TOEFL, 600 with a Test of Written English (TWE) score of at least 5.0; or

in the internet-based TOEFL, an overall score of at least 100 with at least 24 in the written section and no less than 20 in any other section.

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Entry scores

2013 international qualification entry requirements and scores for this course are available from the Undergraduate Qualifications Database.

Qualification Malaysia
A Level GCE (Click on the Undergraduate Qualifications Database link above for details on how the A-Level score is calculated.) 15

Applications

Semester one (March)

This course is currently not available to international students.