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which entrance exams are mandatary to get admmision in medicine in uk


poojaseera10 6th Apr, 2021
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Aishwarya Soni 12th Apr, 2021
Hey Pooja.!
Admission to medical schools in the UK is competitive and the student will have to meet the entry requirements or go through an interview as well as take additional tests such as the following
  • the university clinical aptitude test UCAT and
  • the biomedical admission test BMAT

The candidate has options to study different types of medical degrees in the UK
  • 2 year degrees and preclinical trainings
  • 3 year degrees at a specialised school or teaching hospital
  • 6 years dgreess, if the person chooses another study discipline in between the two.

There are usually around thousands of applicants who compete for a very few number of places in the medical schools throughout the UK as we know that admissions to schools in the UK are really competitive around 10 it takes around 10 years for a graduate to become a consultant in a hospital speciality

As we all know becoming a doctor is not easy especially in the UK that's why studying at one of the best medical school is a great place to start following the listed top universities offering medicine decrease in Britain according to rankings from top universities
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Cambridge College
  • London University College
  • London University of Edinburgh
  • Burke king's College London
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Warwick
  • University of Bristol and
  • University of Glasgow
  • London school of hygiene and tropical medicine
  • University of Manchester
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • University of Aberdeen University o
  • University of Saint Andrews
  • Swansea University

In written you have over 60 medicine specialisations to choose from some of the popular ones are
  1. Anaesthetics
  2. general practice
  3. pathology
  4. psychiatry
  5. radiology and
  6. surgery

Once you've chosen your speciality the best way to develop is to expand your knowledge constantly and stay up-to-date with the latest discoveries in the Healthcare field it is also important so that you can achieve it through training and follow your studies even from the hours of practice taken at the medical school

Requirements for medicine entry :-
  • undergraduate, if you decide that you want to study MS medicine you need to enroll at Amity school of medicine school
  • which is usually part of a University and has strong links to hospital and medical practices initially to study at the undergraduate level student needs a grades with either chemistry or biology as a requirement
  • For international students who want to study medicine at undergraduate level and IELTS score of no less than 6.5 for all categories that is reading writing speaking and listening and an overall score of 7.2 is required at most of the universities
  • After the completion of the undergraduate study of 2 years that is the foundation training that last for another two years completed the student can choose a speciality training

  • After all this UK clinical aptitude test for UK clinical apitu test u k c a t is part of the selection process of some of the medical and dental schools of UK it is an online test designed for cognitive abilities attitudes critical thinking and logical reasoning
  1. Quantitative reasoning
  2. abstract reasoning
  3. decision analysis and
  4. situation judgements

Show some of the medical schools in UK are as follows
  • University of Aberdeen school of medicine
  • Birds and the London school of medicine and dentistry Queen Mary
  • University of Birmingham school of medicine
  • Brington and Sussex medical school
  • University of Cambridge school of clinical.

Hope this amswer helps ..

Abir Gayen 6th Apr, 2021

Hi Aspirant,

You can get admission in medicine in various colleges outside India specially UK through various entrance examination.However on a general note the examinations required in most of the college which serves for entry purpose are UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) or the Bio Medical Admissions Test (BMAT).

Hope it helps!!

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