Admission to Medicine and Dentistry in the UK Training doctors and dentists is costly for universities so the number of places on courses are limited. Couple that with the perennial popularity of these career paths, these degree courses are amongst the most competitive and oversubscribed. For this reason, and to ensure that each candidate is seriously committed and has the correct aptitude for what is ultimately a highly stressful training course and career, medical degree programmes have more stringent application requirements than other degree courses. These include top predicted or achieved A-level grades, interviews, aptitude tests and the completion of appropriate work experience.
Admission Tests
Schools of Medicine and Dentistry typically require UCAT, and cut offs (if used) are around 2400-2600 with some not interviewing those with situational judgement scores of 4. The few universities not requiring UCAT require BMAT (Only Leeds for Dentistry – see pages 6-7 for full BMAT usage). At present only the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Buckingham (private) require neither UCAT nor BMAT for admission for medicine.
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