3rd March 2025
How to Register for UCAT ANZ 2025
Registrations and bookings to sit UCAT ANZ 2025 are now open! UCAT ANZ 2025 testing takes place between 1 July and 5 August 2025. However, we strongly advise registering and booking your UCAT test early to ensure you secure a location, date and time that is suitable for you. If you leave it until later to register and book your UCAT test, it is possible you will need to ...
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27th February 2025
Timeline for Medical Entry 2025
Getting into medicine is a complex process. It’s not just about your academic performance, you also need to succeed in UCAT and interviews. There are many important deadlines that you must not miss if you are to enter your dream course. Candidates taking the UCAT in 2025 for entry to medicine and dentistry in 2026, should note the following key dates: ...
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24th February 2025
ATTENTION PARENTS: 5 Ways to Help Your Son or Daughter Get Into Medicine
Great things never come easy. Medicine is an incredibly rewarding, secure, well paid and respected profession in New Zealand. It is also the hardest course to get into. Furthermore, this important stage of your son or daughter's education is a stressful and demanding time, and the need to sit the UCAT places additional pressure on them during this period. Thankfully there are w ...
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20th February 2025
Studying Medicine in Australia as a Kiwi
As a Kiwi, there are two domestic options for studying medicine or dentistry: at Auckland and Otago Universities. However, if you are open to looking overseas, studying medicine in Australia is a viable option with an enormous list of benefits. What’s more, there is a significant number of universities to choose from. While this may be intimidating, it provides you with the opportunity t ...
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3rd February 2025
Everything You Need To Know About UCAT 2025
Do you want to study medicine or dentistry in 2026? If so, you will need to sit UCAT 2025. This blog describes everything you need to know about UCAT 2025. What is UCAT? UCAT stands for University Clinical Aptitude Test. The UCAT is a 2-hour long computer-based exam that is required to gain entry into most medicine and dentistry courses across New Zealand, Australia and ...
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31st January 2025
So, You Want to Be a Doctor? How to Get Into Medicine in New Zealand
Congratulations on your decision to pursue medicine as a career! Medicine is an interesting, valued and rewarding profession. The process of getting into medicine can be confusing, so here’s an introduction. Criteria for getting into medicine In New Zealand, you cannot enter medicine or dentistry as a school-leaver. You must first complete at least the first year of an ...
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17th January 2025
10 Tips For Surviving Your First Year Of Medicine
Medicine is tough, really tough, but you’ve made it this far so you’re tougher. First year is a whirlwind and at times can seem overwhelming, but having made it through to the other side of those first few full-on months, I can hand-on-heart say that everyone is telling the truth when they say college will be the best time of your life. You’ll have ups and downs, I can guaran ...
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12th January 2025
Dispelling the Myths of Medicine
The idea of studying medicine at university can seem like a very daunting prospect. There are many myths and false beliefs about the degree which allow these fears to prosper. Having completed my first year studying medicine at University, I hope I can dispel some of your fears about studying medicine at university. Myth #1: Medicine is Ultra competitive Granted, Medicin ...
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6th January 2025
Is Medicine for Me? 5 Tips on How to Make the Big Decision
Trying to decide whether medicine is for you? Personally, it took me months and lots of research and thought to finally make that decision. Compared to most Bachelor degrees which are usually three years in duration, courses in medicine take much longer – about 5 years to complete. Then there is post-graduate study and specialist training. You could be looking at many years before you ar ...
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4th December 2024
UCAT vs GAMSAT
There are two major pathways into medicine: the undergraduate route (which generally requires you to sit UCAT) and the graduate route (which generally requires GAMSAT in Australia). As an aspiring medical student, it can be difficult to know which pathway to take, particularly when some universities strongly market the graduate route. MedEntry recommends that you choose the undergraduate (U ...
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