- You do your best and work hard for your patients.
- Many of your duties are the same as a doctor's.
- Why not gain the rewards, recognition, autonomy?
- Gain the knowledge; Knowledge is opportunity.
Welcome to Oceania University of Medicine.
The choice of nurses and other health professionals advancing their careers as medical doctors.
For more information visit www.oceaniamed.org/graduateMBBS
OUM graduates are eligible to sit for the AMC exam to practice in Australia.
Oceania University of Medicine's distance-learning curriculum uses problem-based learning to present and integrate basic sciences and clinical content in a case-study format. The medical school utilises computer-based study presented by experienced online instructors, all with advanced degrees - an MBBS, MD or PhD - to combine real-time virtual classroom lectures with student study groups, discussion boards, independent study, and Internet research.
- No need to move, disrupt your family, leave friends in order to study medicine.
- Many students can maintain a full or part-time work schedule during the first two years.
- Gives students the opportunity to personally and financially prepare for the full-time responsibility of hospital-based clinical rotations during their final two years.
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More about the OUM Curriculum
- OUM is the first and only internationally-accredited medical school in the South Pacific, earned in 2010 from the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities.
- Nurses make up one-half of the OUM student body.
- The curriculum uses an internationally-accepted medical education model, problem-based learning, which integrates basic science and clinical content into a case-study format.
- Clinical rotations may be completed at select teaching hospitals in several cities.
- Alumni are currently completing internships at respected programs of their choice throughout the country.
- OUM’s distance-learning curriculum is computer-based, also utilizing physician mentors in your community for greater clinical exposure – meaning no need to move or quit your job during the first two years of medical school.
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- All candidates must have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher at an appropriately accredited and recognized tertiary institution.
- Applicants are expected to have a credit-level degree or GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, or its equivalent.
- All candidates are required to sit for the Graduate Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT). Candidates with at least five years of clinical experience may be "GAMSAT exempt."
Admission criteria in detail
- Choose the course start date that best suits your schedule.
- Students may start the program during one of two offerings in January or August of each year. Student orientation will be one week prior to the beginning of the course in Sydney or Melbourne.
OUM's Academic Calendar
- While the majority of OUM’s preclinical modules use the distance-learning curriculum, the first course in the program – Introduction to Medicine – is completed on-site.
- Since making an eight-week trip to Samoa is not feasible for most busy professionals, OUM has established a US affiliate program at a college in suburban Philadelphia.
- The curriculum on campus in Samoa and in the US are identical, but affiliate students spend Friday through Sunday in class, every other weekend, for 16 weeks.
- Later in the program, students may return to the affiliate campus for personal instruction in preparation for the USMLE.
Learn more about our Affiliates
- OUM graduates are eligible to sit for the AMC exam to practice medicine in Australia and the NZREX exam to practice in New Zealand. For more information, visit http://www.amc.org.au or http://www.mcnz.org.nz.
- Any OUM graduate may practice medicine in Samoa, provided that he/she meets the country's immigration requirements and successfully applies to the Samoan Ministry of Health.
- OUM alumni are completing internships and residencies in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and the USA.
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