12Working out the medical student loading

12 Working out the medical student loading

The medical student loading for a provider for Commonwealth supported ‘medical student EFTSL’ (as worked out under this section) is $1,786 per student in 2026, indexed in accordance with Part 5-6 of the Act for future years. For the purposes of determining a ‘medical student EFTSL’ only students undertaking medical units of study in a course of study in medicine, completion of which would allow provisional registration as a medical practitioner by an authority of a State, a Territory or the Commonwealth (Field of Education codes (under the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Australian Standard Classification of Education) 019901 - medical science and 060100 to 060199 - medical studies, excluding 060113 – pathology), are taken into account. The number of medical student EFTSL for the purposes of determining medical student loading for a particular year is equal to the number of medical student EFTSL enrolled with the provider for that year as reported by the provider through HESDC and cleared as final by the Department. The number of medical student EFTSL for students other than Indigenous persons, taken into account for the purposes of determining medical student loading for a particular year, must not be more than the number of Commonwealth supported medical places allocated in that provider’s Commonwealth Grant Scheme funding agreement for that year.