Updated October 24, 2026

Melbourne Medicine Interview (MMI): Format, Dates and Pathways

What happens at the University of Melbourne's medicine interview, how you get one, and how it decides your offer.

Melbourne interviews with an 8-station Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview. You read each question on screen and record your answer to a webcam, and you must clear the cut-score in at least 5 of the 8 stations. For standard GEMSAS applicants the interview is 50% of the offer rank, with GPA and GAMSAT 25% each.

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Key facts (2027 entry)

Format: An 8-station Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview (ROMMI) for every shortlisted applicant, whatever the pathway.
Stations and timing: About 6 minutes a station, usually 4 questions each, 50 to 60 minutes in total (Melbourne's MMI candidate guide for the 2026 intake). GEMSAS describes about 5 minutes a station with a single assessor.
Online or in person: Online. You record your answers in a browser on a desktop or laptop with a webcam. Mobile devices are not allowed.
When (2027 entry): Domestic interview offers went out in late August 2026. The main MMIs were held in the week of 14 September 2026, and rural-specific MMIs in the week of 7 September 2026. Domestic offer letters are scheduled for late October 2026.
Who is interviewed: Standard applicants apply through GEMSAS and are ranked on GPA and GAMSAT, weighted equally. Minimums are a GPA of 5 and 50 in each GAMSAT section.
How the interview counts: Standard pathway offers: interview 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%. You must pass the interview to get an offer on any pathway.
Other routes: Guaranteed Entry (Chancellor's Scholars and Full-Fee), the Australian Full Fee Priority Pathway, the MD Rural Pathway, the North Western Pathway and the Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway, all applied for directly with Melbourne.

What happens on the day

Melbourne's interview is a Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview. Questions appear on screen and you record your answers to your webcam.

How the recording works

These steps come from Melbourne's MMI candidate guide for the 2026 intake, the latest version we could find. Details may differ for 2027 entry.

8 stations. Every candidate gets the same 8 stations, usually with 4 questions each. Each station lasts about 6 minutes and all are weighted equally.
Station Zero first. You show photo ID to the camera and pan around the room to prove you are alone.
30 seconds, then 1 minute. Each station starts with 30 seconds to read the instructions, then 1 minute to review a scenario, picture, video or text. You are recorded while you review the scenario, but you do not need to speak.
1 minute per answer. Each question shows on screen, the camera starts 15 seconds later, and you have 1 minute to answer. You cannot go back or redo an answer.
Strict time window. Start within 15 minutes of the portal opening and finish within 90 minutes of it opening. The MMI itself takes 50 to 60 minutes.

Your setup and the rules

Laptop or desktop only. You need a webcam and a microphone, built in or on a wired headset. Melbourne says not to use Bluetooth headphones, which can disconnect or run out of battery, and you cannot do the MMI on a mobile device.
Internet. Melbourne recommends 20 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload, and having a second browser installed as a backup.
Exam conditions. No pen and paper, no phone, no other people in the room, and no other browser tabs. Leaving the interview screen is detected and logged.

Rural and North Western pathway applicants

These applicants interview in two parts on separate days. Part 1 is a 3-station real-time MMI about your connection to, and intent to practice in, a rural area (or Melbourne's Western and North Western suburbs). Part 2 is the same 8-station recorded MMI.

What is assessed. Melbourne lists interest in the course, collaboration, building rapport, decision making, communication and professional behaviour as example domains. GEMSAS adds cultural sensitivity, maturity and reliability, and says stations may include practical tasks or commenting on short films.

How you get an interview

Domestic standard applicants must sit the GAMSAT and apply through GEMSAS. Melbourne then shortlists on GPA and GAMSAT.

Minimums. A GPA of at least 5 and at least 50 in each GAMSAT section. There are no prerequisite subjects, and meeting the minimums does not guarantee selection.
Equal weight. GPA and GAMSAT count equally for the shortlist. Melbourne weights the three GAMSAT sections equally and does not use the overall score.
Your GPA. Your last three years of undergraduate study, weighted 1, 2 and 2 (most recent year counts double). Honours counts only if finished by June and results are available by 15 July of the application year.
One interview through GEMSAS. GEMSAS applicants get one interview offer only, and only interviewed applicants can get a course offer. If you also apply directly to Melbourne through the Guaranteed Entry, MD Rural or Indigenous pathway, you may get an additional interview offer through that pathway.
International applicants. They apply directly. MCAT (minimum 492) is accepted only from applicants living outside Australia.

How offers are decided

After the MMI, applicants who passed are re-ranked, and the weighting depends on your pathway. Guaranteed Entry and Indigenous pathway applicants are not ranked.

Pass mark first. You need a satisfactory overall score and to be above the cut-score in 5 of the 8 stations. Otherwise you fail the interview, whatever your GPA or GAMSAT.
Standard and international: 50/25/25. Interview 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT (or MCAT) 25%.
Rural and North Western: 70/30. Interview 70% and GPA 30%. You must also score satisfactorily in each of the 3 Part 1 stations.
Australian Full Fee Priority: 100% MMI. These applicants are ranked on the MMI alone.
Place order. Offers go in the order CSP, then Bonded Medical Program (BMP), then full-fee, down the merit list. GEMSAS lists indicative 2027 quotas of 179 CSPs, 71 BMP places (39 through GEMSAS and 32 through the MD Rural Pathway) and up to 105 domestic and international full-fee places.

One attempt a year. You can sit Melbourne's interview once per selection round. If you fail or miss it, you must apply again the next year. Interview results cannot be appealed.

Pathways and dates for 2027 entry

Melbourne runs several direct pathways alongside GEMSAS. Each one still needs a passed MMI.

Direct pathways

Chancellor's Scholars. ATAR of 99.90 or above, then a Melbourne undergraduate degree straight after Year 12. You are guaranteed a CSP if you pass the MMI. No GAMSAT needed.
Full-Fee Guaranteed Entry. ATAR of 99.0 or above and a Melbourne undergraduate degree started before 2027. You need a final WAM of 75 and a satisfactory MMI.
Australian Full Fee Priority Pathway. For the same ATAR 99.0 group starting their Melbourne degree from 2027 onwards. Every eligible applicant is interviewed, but entry is not guaranteed. A WAM of 75 confirms the offer.
MD Rural Pathway. Bonded places to study the whole degree in rural Victoria. The selection guidelines list 32: 15 for rural-background graduates with a GPA of 5.0 or above, and 17 for La Trobe Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (Medical) graduates. The course page says 30. No GAMSAT or GEMSAS needed.
North Western Pathway. Up to 8 CSPs for recent graduates of selected Victoria University courses with ties to Melbourne's Western suburbs and a GPA of 5.0 or above.
Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway. Not ranked. You need a GPA of 5.0 and a passed MMI, and you are invited to an interview with a panel chaired by the Deputy Dean (Indigenous) or their nominee, per Melbourne's selection guidelines (GEMSAS's entry says Associate Dean). No GAMSAT or GEMSAS needed.

2027 entry timeline

29 May 2026. GEMSAS and domestic direct pathway applications closed at 5pm AEST. North Western Pathway applications had to be started by then and could be finished until 8 June.
Mid to late August 2026. Rural pathway and international interview offers went out in mid-August, and domestic interview offers in late August.
September 2026. Rural-specific MMIs were held in the week of 7 September, and the main online MMIs in the week of 14 September.
Late October 2026. Domestic offer letters are scheduled for release. Melbourne's timeline says offer conditions must be met by 22 December 2026, while GEMSAS gives 23 December.

How to prepare

Practice 1-minute answers to a camera. Melbourne gives you 15 seconds to think and 1 minute to speak, with no redo. Record yourself and watch it back.
Make every station count. You need to be above the cut-score in at least 5 of 8 stations and have a satisfactory overall score, so more than 3 weak stations means you fail.
Talk to the camera, not the screen. There is no interviewer to nod back at you. Keep your answers structured: your point, a reason, an example.
Test your tech early. Run the tech check, use a wired headset, and have a second browser ready in case one fails.

Rural applicants: know your community. Part 1 is a real-time 3-station MMI on your rural motivation, connection and intent to practice rurally. Have specific stories about the place you come from ready.

Practice questions

Questions in the style of a MMI (recorded online) station, written for applicants to The University of Melbourne (Melbourne Medical School). They are practice questions, not the school's own. Open one for what a strong answer does.

You've already completed a first degree. What happened during your undergraduate studies that made you decide to sit the GAMSAT and move into medicine?

Name one specific turning point, link it to what you learned about yourself, and finish inside a minute.

You and another applicant have five minutes to assemble a puzzle. You will be blindfolded, and your partner is not allowed to speak. How will you set up a way to communicate so you succeed?

Describe a clear, simple system you would agree on first, and say how you would check it is working.

Imagine you're on a clinical placement and a senior doctor says to you, 'I treat everyone exactly the same, so I don't need to worry about cultural safety.' How would you respond?

Explain the difference between equal and equitable care with a concrete example, and stay respectful toward the senior doctor.

You are a junior medical student in a busy emergency department. A patient who has been waiting for hours looks increasingly pale and distressed, and the nurses are busy with a major trauma. What do you do?

Stay within your role, put the patient's safety first, and say exactly who you would alert and how.

A friend who is also applying to medicine tells you they exaggerated their rural background to get into a rural entry pathway. They say it doesn't matter because they plan to work rurally anyway. How do you respond?

Show you see why honesty matters for the applicants who missed out, and talk to your friend before taking it further.

Closing the Gap is a national commitment to health equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. How would you make sure your own day-to-day practice as a doctor contributes to this goal?

Give two or three practical habits, such as listening, using Aboriginal Health Workers and checking understanding, rather than general statements.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Melbourne medicine interview online?

Yes. It is a Recorded Online Multi Mini-Interview, done in your browser on a laptop or desktop with a webcam. Rural and North Western pathway applicants also do a real-time 3-station MMI (Part 1) on a separate day.

How many stations are in the Melbourne MMI?

Eight. Melbourne's 2026-intake candidate guide says each station lasts about 6 minutes with usually 4 questions, and the whole MMI takes 50 to 60 minutes.

Does the interview count more than the GAMSAT at Melbourne?

Yes, for offers. On the standard pathway the interview is 50% of the final rank, and GPA and GAMSAT are 25% each. GPA and GAMSAT decide who gets an interview in the first place.

When are Melbourne MD interviews for 2027 entry?

The main online MMIs were held in the week of 14 September 2026, and rural-specific MMIs in the week of 7 September 2026. Domestic offer letters are scheduled for late October 2026.

Can I resit the Melbourne interview?

Not in the same year. You can interview once per selection round, and if you fail or miss your interview you must apply again in a later year. Unsuccessful applicants can be given qualitative feedback by email at the end of the selection process, generally in February of the intake year.

Sources

Official pages only, read on the date shown. Schools change their process every year, so check the school's own page before you apply.

University of Melbourne: Doctor of Medicine Application of Interview in Course Selection Guidelines (PDF) · read October 23, 2026
University of Melbourne: Doctor of Medicine Selection Guidelines, updated 14 August 2026 (PDF) · read October 23, 2026
University of Melbourne: 2027 Intake MD Selection Timeline (PDF) · read October 23, 2026
Melbourne Medical School: Information for MMI candidates, 2026 intake (PDF) · read October 23, 2026
University of Melbourne: Doctor of Medicine, Entry requirements · read October 23, 2026
University of Melbourne: Doctor of Medicine, How to apply · read October 23, 2026
University of Melbourne: Doctor of Medicine · read October 23, 2026
GEMSAS: The University of Melbourne · read October 23, 2026
GEMSAS: Interviews · read October 23, 2026
GEMSAS: Key dates · read October 23, 2026