Graduate Medical Program

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Graduate Medical Program (GMP) or sometimes also known as Graduate Entry Program (GEP) are terms generally used outside of North America to refer to medical programs usually of 4-years duration where applicants are university graduates who have taken aptitude tests such as the GAMSAT or MCAT. These tests are not to be confused with tests such as the UMAT since tests such as the UMAT are designed for high school graduates. Most schools of medicine within the United States and Canada only have programs of 4-years duration and consider only applicants who have completed university degrees. Therefore, this term is rarely used in the United States and Canada. However, since in places such as Australia and Ireland, medical applicants are generally high school graduates and only a smaller portion would choose to consider obtaining a university degree first, the terms Graduate Medical Program and Graduate Entry Medicine have evolved into being over the past decade.