What is the UAI requirement for Dentistry??? (1 Viewer)

[vendetta711]

hey guys can sum1 let me know wat the uai cutoff for dentistry is?? for sum reason its incredibly hard to find n i cant get the info!! thanks

 

[Trebla]

Isn't dentistry a postgraduate course?

"The BDent is open to applicants who have completed a Bachelor's degree in any discipline from an accredited University. Graduates of the BDent program will be fully qualified to practise dentistry upon completion of the four-year course."

"Students are selected from amongst recent graduates in order that a committed, mature and academically diverse group may optimise the learning opportunities provided by this program. There is no preference given to graduates with a particular Bachelor's degree. Students will be selected on the basis of four performance criteria:

- Bachelor's degree

- the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT)

- Successfully completing a Muliti Mini Interview (MMI) to be conducted in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine"

Quoted from: http://www.dentistry.usyd.edu.au/student/bdent.php

Therefore, I assuming that there is no UAI requirement for Dentistry...

 

[sslions]

Yep, the Dentistry course in NSW is post graduate; sucks cos if you really wanna do dentistry, you will need to travel interstate to either Adelaide Uni, Melbourne Uni, Queensland Uni, and even Western Australia Uni has it. I swear, only uni's in NSW is tight enough to make it a damn post grad course. Going interstate was one of the reasons that disencouraged me from doing Dentistry.

Anyways, the UAI is not the only requirement for Dentistry. You gotta do the UMAT and go through an interview process (except for Melbourne Uni I think). You gotta be an all-rounder in both the UAI and UMAT to be selected;

for Adelaide Uni, you need a UAI (TER - same thing) of 90;
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/programs/ug/prog/health/

for Melbourne Uni, you need 96
http://coursesearch.unimelb.edu.au/

for Queensland Uni you need a rank of 99 (dunno what the UAI equivalent is)
http://www.uq.edu.au/study/program.html?acad_prog=2257

for Western Australia Uni, you need a TER of 96
http://admissions.uwa.edu.au/undergrad/courses/dentistry

So yeah, in the end it just depends whether you're determined enough to wanna go interstate. I've heard its really competitive as well, but it's worth a try

 

[Triangulum]

Yep, the Dentistry course in NSW is post graduate; sucks cos if you really wanna do dentistry, you will need to travel interstate

...or do a first degree and then do it.

 

[babyem]

if finishing a degree before being able to get into dentistry mean that you have to complete like a whole 4year course or something ? :S

so would it be better to go interstate ?

 

[xiao1985]

depends i say... there are advantages and disadvtantages of grad courses...