Program Overview

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Graduate Entry Medicine Programme MBBS

Key Information

• Course type: Single honours
• Delivery mode: In person
• Study mode: Full time
• Duration: Four years
• Application status: Closed
• Start date: August 2025
• Application deadline: 15 October 2024
• Optional study abroad

Course Description

The Graduate Entry Medicine Programme enables honours-degree biomedical/life science graduates and healthcare professionals with equivalent academic qualifications to study for a fast-track degree in medicine. The programme design enables you to bypass the first stage/year of a conventional medical degree to achieve qualification in four rather than five or six years.

Key Benefits

• Integrated medical science with clinical teaching; and focus on learning in close contact with patients.
• Partner hospitals include Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals – three of the most renowned and busiest teaching hospitals in London.
• Students benefit from clinical placements at district general hospitals located across the South of England and at over 350 general practices.
• Learn from some of the world’s most influential clinicians and scientists, who are global leaders in life sciences and medical research.
• A multi-faculty university giving you access to a breadth of non-core subjects including humanities and social sciences.
• Twinned with leading medical schools around the world, providing opportunities for clinical exchanges during your elective module.
• Accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.

Course Essentials

The MBBS degree at King’s aims to train students to become:

• Critical scientific thinkers
• Collaborative leaders and innovators
• Outstanding patient-centred clinicians
• Excellent team-players
• Educators and life-long learners
• Resilient and adaptable professionals.

The MBBS curriculum is divided into three ‘Stages’. Although we offer four entry routes into Medicine, all our students follow the same fundamental MBBS curriculum. The Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) is our four-year fast-track entry route into medicine for biomedical/life science graduates and health professionals.

Base Campuses

• Guy’s Campus: The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience are based at the riverside Guy's Campus, next to the Shard.
• Waterloo Campus: Waterloo campus is home of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery and facilities for other faculties
• Denmark Hill Campus: Home to the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Special Features

• Optional study abroad: On this programme, you will have the opportunity to apply to study abroad, supported by the Study Abroad Tutor in your department and King’s Global Mobility Office.

Course Accreditation

• General Medical Council (GMC)

Regulating Bodies

• King's is regulated by the Office for Students

Entry Requirements

• A minimum 2:1 (upper second class honours) undergraduate degree (or international equivalent) in a Biosciences subject with both Biology andChemistry content.
• Bioscience degrees include:
  • Biomedical Sciences
  • Physiology
  • Biochemistry
  • Pharmacology
  • Neuroscience
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Pharmacy
• Please note this list is not exhaustive and we would encourage applicants with other Biomedical or Life Sciences degrees not listed to apply, if you feel your degree contains at least two thirds Bioscience content.
• There are no specific A-level requirements for this programme.

The UCAT

• Please note that all applicants are required to sit the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), previously known as UCAT, prior to applying to this programme.
• Please note the UCAT must be taken the same year you apply in order to be valid.
• King’s does not have a threshold UCAT score in any particular year, but all candidates are still required to take the UCAT examination for this course.

Non-Academic Requirements

• Occupational Health clearance: Required for successful applicants.
• Enhanced criminal conviction check: Required for successful applicants.

Academic Achievement

• You should carefully check that you will meet the minimum academic standards before making an application.
• Please note that many applicants meet the minimum requirements and so all applications are considered within a competitive environment.

Deadline to Meet Requirements

• In order to enrol onto our programmes, successful offer holders must be able to evidence that they can meet our requirements by the beginning of August in year of entry.

Deferrals

• Deferrals and applications for deferred entry are not permitted for this programme.

Graduate Applicants for the Four-Year A102 and the Five-Year A100 Programme

• Suitably qualified graduate applicants to Medicine are welcome to apply to both our four-year Graduate/Professional Entry Programme (A102) and our five-year programme (A100).

Shortlisting

• When considering those students which will be shortlisted for interview the selectors consider the following; predicted or achieved 2.1 (or equivalent) in a Biosciences degree; the personal statement, the reference and the score in the UCAT.

The Interview

• No offers are made without an interview.
• Interviews are held between November and May and you must be available for interview in order to be considered for admission.

Receiving a Decision

• There continues to be considerable pressure on the available places for students wishing to study Medicine.
• Applications each year for our medical programmes are around 5500 for a total of 410 places.

Transfers

• Transfers into this programme are not permitted.

Teaching Methods

• Lectures
• Tutorials
• Seminars
• Directed self-study

Learning Outcomes

• On successful completion of the course, you will receive your MBBS degree, which is a primary medical qualification (PMQ).
• Holding a PMQ entitles you to apply for provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC), subject only to its acceptance that there are no Fitness to Practise concerns.

Assessment

• Formative Assessment
• Summative Assessment

Structure

• GEM students have a three-week mandatory introductory module ‘Introduction to Graduate Entry Medicine ’ which starts in August.

Required Modules

• Introduction to Graduate Entry Medicine (15 credits)
• From Science to Clinical Practice 1 (105 credits)
• From Science to Clinical Practice 2 (120 credits)
• Project (Doctor as Teacher) (15 credits)
• Project (Introduction to Clinical Research) (15 credits)
• The Student Selected Component (SSC) is a required module within which you undertake projects or short courses in medical, scientific and non-medical subjects that you choose according to personal interest. (15 credits)
• Scholarly Project: You will undertake a scholarly project in an area of interest selected from across the multi-faculty university. (30 credits)

Optional Modules

• There are no optional modules for this year.

Employability

• Our course is accredited by the General Medical Council (GMC), this Primary Medical Qualification entitles the holder to apply to the GMC for registration to practise medicine in the UK.

Tuition Fees

• Full time tuition fees UK: The UK tuition fee for the academic year is currently £9,535 per year. This is based on the UK Government's cap.

Additional Costs

• Alternative venue examination fees
• Books if you choose to buy your own copies
• Clothing for optional course related events and competitions
• Library fees and fines
• Personal photocopies
• Printing course handouts
• Society membership fees
• Stationery
• Graduation costs
• Travel costs for travel around London and between campuses

Funding

• To find out more about bursaries, scholarships, grants, tuition fees, living expenses, student loans, and other financial help available at King's please visit the Fees and Funding section.