The Otago Medical School medical degree (MB ChB) prepares students to graduate as doctors committed to the provision of high-quality, patient-centred, evidence-based medical care within the New Zealand health care system and wherever they practise.
Students will graduate with the professional, clinical, biomedical and psychosocial foundations to practise collaboratively as doctors, and to undertake further training in any field of medicine.
If you are considering a career in medicine, you should be skilled in communication, understanding people, critical and scientific reasoning, and be prepared for lifelong learning to maintain your practising standards.
The Otago Medical School delivers a socially accountable education programme that emphasises graduate commitment to improving the health of individuals and communities, to equitable health outcomes and to the Treaty of Waitangi.
The University of Otago medical degree (the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery; MB ChB) takes five years from admission after either First Year Health Sciences (undertaken in Dunedin) or a prior undergraduate degree.
The first two years of the programme (Early Learning in Medicine) take place in Dunedin; from fourth year, the class is split across Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington for the three clinically-based Advanced Learning in Medicine years.
Note: Applicants in all categories must have their personal and financial affairs in order when they apply so that if their application is successful, they are able to take up a place at the start of the first semester.