Possible Pathways to Dentistry / Medicine

[onytae]

Hi, I'm currently in year 12 and I'm looking to get into Dentistry or Medicine. What are some possible undergraduate pathways for dentistry? (and their requirements/cut-offs/umat scores). And for medicine is it better to go with the UMAT or GAMSAT pathway. I'm aiming for an atar 99+, which is achievable. Also I want to know if work experience is important for the application into these courses. Any help would be great!

[x3Reii]

In metropolitan sydney, only USYD offer Dentistry however its a post-grad course. I'd recommend doing B Sc/Ad Sc/Med Sc and then do post-grad dent. Requirements are pretty rough for dentistry, you must do GAMSAT which I heard is 100 times harder than UMAT (its a REALLY long exam) as well as having a 5.5 GPA (which is basically a distinction? I'm not sure) and passing an interview. In NSW, Charles Sturt also offers dentistry which has a cut-off of 90 but they have a preference to rural students and you have to demonstrate you're commitment to practice in rural NSW to get accepted there. You could always try inter-state? I know University of Adelaide and JCU offers it and I think University of Queensland does too.

I'm not too sure about medicine but you'll be wanting to do UMAT over GAMSAT and its very competitive so a HIGH ATAR as well as a HIGH score in UMAT.