08 March 2010

Medical Schools - Brief Overview

As promised a post glancing over medical schools, in this I'm going to include whether Universities accept resits, whether they interview and who's on the interview panel, their attitude to Gap Years, and if they include dissection on their course.
In another post after this I'll do a run down of A-Level requirements, and even later I'll do a post on the BMAT and UKCAT and which places require what :)


Aberdeen = Does not accept resits, interviews, 2 Admissions selectors including 1 clinician on the interview panel, Gap Years are fine if used construtively and declared on application form, and prosection is used as opposed to dissection
Barts and Queen Marys = Does not accept resits, interviews, Clinical Medical Student and Medical Scientists on interview panel, Gap years are fine, and prosection is used as opposed to dissection
Birmingham = Resits are considered in exceptional circumstances, interviews, Admissions Tutor, two staff and a clinical student on the admission panel, around 10% of students take a gap year, so I'm guessing you need to be doing something pretty good for it to be allowed, and prosection is used as opposed to dissection
Brighton and Sussex = BSMS policy is to accept re-taken grades or modules without penalty, interviews, A member of BSMS faculty, a GP and a health professional on the interview panel, gap years are accepted as long as they are to do with Medicine and dissection is used
Bristol = Does not accept A2 resits, interviews, a group of academics on the interview panel, gap years are accepted if they are worthwhile, dissection is not used
Cambridge = Resits only considered in exceptional circumstances, interviews, the interview panel varies from college to college and 2-4 interviews may be required, gap years are accepted but it needs to be checked with each college individually and dissection is used
Cardiff = only accepts resit applications with exceptional circumstances, interviews, GP's, Scientists and Medical staff on the interview panel, considers a gap year to be a "personal choice" but thinks it should be used productively and uses dissection
Dundee = Resits only considered with exceptional mitigating circumstances, which can be verified, interviews, member of the faculty of Medicine on the interview panel, gap year applicants will be considered (sounds a little ominous, maybe not for gap year students here then :S) and it uses dissection
East Anglia = 6 subjects with at least grade A including the core subjects (core subjects = English and Maths)
Edinburgh = 8-11 A*'s, with at least B's in core subjects
Glasgow = A's in core subjects and the sciences
Hull York = At least 6 subjects at grade C, A's in the core subjects and B's in the sciences
Imperial = A/B grades in all subjects
Keele = Grade A in a minimum of 4 subjects, and B's in core subjects and the sciences
Leeds = B's in at least 6 subjects with a range of good grades, this presumably means nothing below a B and certainly no fail grades
Leicester = C's in all core subjects and the sciences, even though GCSE grades are yet again not specified for this University, I'm guessing you need a bit more than all C's
Liverpool = At least B's in the core subjects and sciences, and a scoring system. A*/A = 2 and B = 1, in this scoring system you need at least 15 points. Which works out as mainly A/B's in all subjects
Manchester = Grade A in a minimum of 5 subjects, with B's in core subjects
Newcastle = A's in the sciences, and a minimum of 5 passes (I'm quite surprised by the relatively low grades, seeing as Newcastle is another good Medical school, so do expect most other applicants to have higher grades than this)
Nottingham = Grade A in the sciences and at least 6 subjects
Oxford = Minimum Grade A in the sciences, minimum 8A*'s
Peninsula = Grade C in at least 7 subjects
Queen's Belfast = Uses a point scoring system, 4 points for an A*, 3 for an A etc. Makes competition quite high because all GCSE results are taken into account in the final point adding
Sheffield = At least 6 A grades required and B's in core subjects
Good Luck!!

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