5/6 Year Courses.
Note: some 5/6 year courses have entrance exams. Oxford, Cambridge and UCL require you to take the BMAT exam http://www.bmat.org.uk
Applying to Peninsula as a non-school leaver requires you to take the GAMSAT, regardless of whether you have a first degree or not.
http://www.acer.edu.au/tests/university/gamsatuk/intro.html
Degree Level Entry:
Typically to apply for these courses you need a 2i or above. However, a 2ii can be ‘boosted’ by taking a Masters or Doctoral degree (UEA, Manchester/Keele). Similarly, some universities will ‘ignore’ your degree result if your A-Levels satisfy their school leaver entry requirements, so long as you have a suitable excuse for not having done so well at degree level. Leeds, Sheffield and UEA are two such institutions. Be careful though, some schools look at your A-Level results even if you have a 1st class degree and a doctorate in rocket science. St Georges Hospital Medical School and Liverpool look for strong A-Levels and GCSEs as well as at your degree result. Make sure you also have a good work-experience/volunteering portfolio.
Under 24? The Millenium Volunteers is a great way of gaining voluntry experience in community projects: http://www.millenniumvolunteers.gov.uk/
Even with a 2i, if it’s in a non-scientific subject you may need to take (if you haven’t already) Science A-Levels too, or at least AS levels.
These can be done in 1-2 years at:
Day school (full or part time),
Night school,
FE college – costs around £200 an A-level if you’ve sat A-levels before,
Private College – can cost anything up to £2000 an A-Level.
By distance learning. Good if you are a self motivator.
Distance courses:
http://www.nec.ac.uk
NEC are seen as the distance course provider at A-Level.
Distance A-Level Biology: http://www.icslearn.co.uk/course.asp?courseID=1075
Distance Physics
http://www.icslearn.co.uk/course.asp?courseID=1084
A-Level Entry:
Much less of a mine-field! A-Levels can be studied in the ways stated above, and as the school will state it’s requirements on it’s website, you have clearer goal posts to aim for. Make sure you have a good work-experience/volunteering portfolio though.
Under 24? The Millenium Volunteers is a great way of gaining voluntry experience in community projects: http://www.millenniumvolunteers.gov.uk/
Access Course Entry:
Access to Medicine courses are full-time one-year courses offered at some universities and colleges that can be used to satisfy entry requirements for certain courses. In the case of medicine, they are aimed strictly at non-science graduates and at applicants without the appropriate science A-levels.
If the medical schools you like the look of don’t mention Access Courses as an entry pathway, contact them first to see if they will accept the course you are doing. Not all access courses are the same, and some med schools will only consider specific AC’s. Again, make sure you have a good work-experience/volunteering portfolio!
Under 24? The Millenium Volunteers is a great way of gaining voluntry experience in community projects: http://www.millenniumvolunteers.gov.uk/
College of West Anglia, King's Lynn:
http://www3.col-westanglia.ac.uk/opencms/export/cowasite/courses/higher/highereducationaccess.html
City College, Norwich:
http://www.ccn.ac.uk/site/cloud.asp?page=4&extra=523
Sussex Down's:
http://www.sussexdowns.ac.uk/xpurpose/feature_access-to-medicine.asp
Manchester College of Arts and Technology:
http://www.mancat.ac.uk/adult/courses/course_details.asp?location=%25&course=medicine&cat=oracle&submit=Find+a+course&index=CR5013%2D1&leaflet=103
Lambeth College:
http://www.lambethcollege.ac.uk/courses/courses.cfm?CourseID=295
Soton WAMP course:
http://www.som.soton.ac.uk/prospectus/undergrad/wamp.asp
St Georges Foundation to Medicine:
http://www.sghms.ac.uk/Courses/undergrad/foundation_med.htm
and
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/a103.htm#sel
University of Sheffield Foundation year to Medicine:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/prospectus/coursedetail.php?courseid=234&kw=medicine
Kings College London: Access to Medicine and Extended Medical Degree Programme:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/medicine/access/index.html
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08/05/04 STOP PRESS! QMUL (Barts and The London) GEP and LWMS (both) GEPs to use MSAT SELECTION for 2005 entry (along with GKT).
http://www.acer.edu.au/tests/university/msat/intro.html
Source: http://www.admissionsforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7136
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GEP Entry.
A real mine-field! More miney than Mr McMine, the winner of last years Mr Mine contest!
The following schools offered GEPs for 2004 entry:
Birmingham; Bristol; Cambridge; Kings College London (aka GKT); Leicester Warwick (LWMS); Liverpool; Newcastle; Nottingham; Oxford; QMUL (aka Barts and The London); Southampton; St Georges Hospital Medical School (SGHMS) and Swansea.
Most courses have around 1,200 applications for an average of 30-40 places. Some schools do have more GEP places (SGHMS - 90, Nottingham - 70 and LWMS – Warwick - 164, Leicester - 64)*. Others less (Cambridge – 20; Newcastle – 20; GKT – 20, after 20 places fell through; QMUL – have 40 places, but up to 16 are reserved for their own biomedical science graduates)*.
*2004 entry figures
All require a 2i degree or above, with the exception of SGHMS and Nottingham, who will take a 2ii, but you have to pass the GAMSAT entrance exam.
The following GEP courses have entry exams, or additional requirements (correct as of 05/05/04):
BMAT: Cambridge £15.00 in the UK and £39.00 for international entries. http://www.bmat.org.uk
MSAT: GKT (KCL), BL (QMUL) and Warwick (LWMS) £80 3 hour test.
http://www.acer.edu.au/tests/university/msat/intro.html
GAMSAT: SGHMS, Nottingham and Swansea £150, 5 hours.
http://www.acer.edu.au/tests/university/gamsatuk/intro.html
NB Swnasea requires a 2i, SGHMS and Notts a 2ii.
Oxford – Have their own 3 hour exam. £25.
NB BMAT also required for standard length courses at Cambridge, Oxford and UCL
Additional proccedures:
LWMS – Warwick only: Supplementary Application Form. No cost. Can be downloaded from the LWMS web-site.
http://www.lwms.ac.uk/
As pointed out above, GEP courses are very competitive, and it might be worth applying to a mixture of 5/6 year courses and GEPs to ‘better your odds’.
And guess what else it’s wise to do? Make sure you have a good work-experience/volunteering portfolio!!!
Under 24? The Millenium Volunteers is a great way of gaining voluntry experience in community projects: http://www.millenniumvolunteers.gov.uk/
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