Dunedin BSE Course

Amendment to August course dates:
7th to 25th August, with labs 12, 19 and 20 August. Register at

Application Form – The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course Trust NEXT COURSES: 8 – 26 May 2023 (concludes Friday) and 7-25 August (concludes Friday) Note: There are weekend labs Applications now open. Venue is the Dunedin Leisure Lodge where a discounted bed and breakfast rate is offered for the duration of the course. Please apply as soon as you can as numbers...

2023 courses to prepare for the GSSE exams:
There will be a course running 8-26 May for the June exam and a second course 7-25 August for the October exam.
These are residential courses at Leisure Lodge, Dunedin. Three anatomy practicals will take place at the University on weekends during the course. Places are limited. See our website: https://www.dunedincourse.ac.nz/about/ for more details.

About the Course – The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course Trust The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course provides an overview of the relevant material in the FRACS and mock exams for preparation.

May course anatomy labs are:
Sat 13 May
Sat 20 May
Sun 21 May

Course finishes Friday 26th at 5pm

In August, labs are 12, 19 and 26 August

2023 courses to prepare for the GSSE exams:
There will be a course running 8-26 May for the June exam and a second course 7-26 August for the October exam.
These are residential courses at Leisure Lodge, Dunedin. Three anatomy practicals will take place at the University on weekends during the course. Places are limited. See our website: https://www.dunedincourse.ac.nz/about/ for more details.

About the Course – The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course Trust The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course provides an overview of the relevant material in the FRACS and mock exams for preparation.

2023 courses to prepare for the GSSE exams:

There will be a course running 8-27 May for the June exam and a second course 7-26 August for the October exam.

These are residential courses at Leisure Lodge, Dunedin. Three anatomy practicals will take place at the University on Saturdays during the course.

Information will follow

To aspiring surgeons, the College has changed criteria to be accepted into specialty programmes: "All specialty training boards have introduced the successful completion of the GSSE as a mandatory eligibility requirement for application to SET". Here is the link to the junior doctors site:

The Clinical workplace | JDocs by RACS Directors of clinical training, supervisors and medical education officers can use the JDocs Framework as a tool to support assessment of the junior doctor's progress against the relevant learning outcomes and expected levels of competency. It can also be useful in identifying gaps in learning and t...

Registrations for the 2022 course close 6 April 2022. Please apply at:

The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course revises relevant topics in anatomy, physiology & pathology in preparation for Surgical Sciences & Clinical Exams.

Congratulations to Jasmine Chew who has been awarded the Sandy Smith Monetary Prize in Microbiology (top microbiology student 2021).
Sponsored by the Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course.

Dunedin BSE Course 2022
2nd May - 3rd June, 2022
Or Website (www.dunedincourse.ac.nz has now been uploaded with details and application form available)

The Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course Dunedin Basic Medical Sciences Course revises relevant topics in anatomy, physiology & pathology in preparation for Surgical Sciences & Clinical Exams.