Important Announcement: Please be advised that UQ is currently giving serious consideration to introducing a 4 year MD Program to replace the existing 4 year MBBS Program. For further information visit the MD Program FAQ page.

MBBS Program The University of Queensland conducts a four year graduate entry medical program, the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS).

The MBBS degree program is known overseas as the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree or Medicinae Baccalaureus/Baccalaureus Chirurgiae (MB BChir, BM BCh, MB BCh, MB ChB).

Working in partnership with a dedicated community of scholars, clinicians and stakeholder groups both domestically and internationally, the School promotes excellence in medical education by providing integrated case-based/PBL training for student doctors and inspirational continuing professional development opportunities for healthcare practitioners.

Designed to produce doctors who are able to meet today’s challenges, the curriculum has been planned to capture the enthusiasm and maturity of its graduate entrants and help them develop into highly-skilled medical graduates capable of entering the wide variety of career options open to them.

The School is conducting a comprehensive review of its MBBS Program, the MBBS Review will be the first wide-ranging analysis of every feature of its education and governance arrangements.

Campus
The MBBS program is conducted over various campuses and Clinical Schools.  For Years 1 and 2, the majority of students will be located at the St Lucia campus, while a cohort of 90 students will be allocated to the Ipswich campus. For Years 3 and 4, students are located at various Clinical Schools throughout Queensland, while some may opt to complete a clinical rotation overseas.

Program Objectives
The School’s aim is to provide a medical program which will develop in its graduates a life-long commitment to continuing education with enhanced critical reasoning & communication skills, a highly developed awareness of their ethical and professional responsibilities to individual patients and to the community, skills to cope with the challenges of medicine, both technical and humanistic, and an ability to contribute to the continuing evolution of medical knowledge.

Unique Features of Program
Problem-based learning is a key component of the MBBS Program at UQ. Students work co-operatively in small groups of about 10 with a staff member whose role is that of a facilitator rather than a tutor. Each group examines a carefully planned series of patient-centred problems, each designed to highlight principles and issues in health and disease. Early patient contact and clinical reasoning are incorporated to develop high levels of clinical skills and medical knowledge.