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ICARUS Medical Entrance

	Course Length	FT	PT	Payable per weekly module	DL	Full Fee Paying Option	Tuition Cost in Australian Dollars	Guided Discovery Learning
Vanuatu College of Medicine	160 weeks [4800hrs instruction]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	$120,000 (Payable per weekly module $750 per module)	Yes
Australian National University	4 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$150,000	No
Flinders University	4 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$152,000	No
Monash University	5 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$160,000	No
University of New South Wales	5 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$166,000	No
University of New South Wales	5 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$166,000	No
University of New South Wales	5 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$166,000	No
University of Queensland	6 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$180,000	No
University of Melbourne	6 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$200,000	No
University of Otago	6 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$210,000	No
Bond University	5 years	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	$250,000	No

The academic year comprises 6 blocks of 8 weeks each. There is only one four-week break at Christmas. There is a rolling admission allowing students to enter every 8 weeks.

The course structure is as follows:

Mechanisms of disease

• Foundation course (8 weeks)
• Organ-system problem-based learning A (32 weeks)
• Organ-system problem-based learning B (40 weeks)

Clinical Rotations

• (12 weeks each, not necessarily in this order)
• Medicine (and some sub-specialties); Psychiatry and Community Medicine
• Surgery
• Pediatrics
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Accident and Emergency Medicine (including anesthetics)

Advanced medicine/pre-internship

• (10 weeks each)
• Advanced internal medicine (with some pediatrics, specialties)
• Advanced surgery (with specialties)

All students must undertake the first block of study (8 weeks) in Vanuatu, and at least one rotation of 12 weeks. Accelerated progression is possible in non-clinical blocks.

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