Laura’s medical notes
June 8, 2010Laura took some interesting notes about Kings students applying to medicine at King – details on the 5 year and the 4 year GPEP course
Graduate Application to Medicine and Dentistry at King’s: Notes from talks 19 April 2010
Graduate Screening scheme: Medicine 5 year programme
- Must be predicted a 2:1 (no point applying without this)
- Also need passes in A or As level Chem and Biol.
- Only need to provide 1 reference
- No need to add GPEP as one of UCAS choices as automatically considered for this at interview
- Last year: 84 applications: 29 offered interviews and 16 offered places (0 offers made for GPEP)
Graduate Screening scheme: Dentistry
- 30 places available on the GED programme
- Unlike medicine GSS, need to add GEP programme as one of your 4 UCAS places
- Last year: 26 applicants through GSS: 17 offered interviews and 12 offered places so far
- Reference is very important for dentistry GSS
- Academic grades also important – either consistently good or steady improvement
- No longer require students to demonstrate manual dexterity
Admissions Office:
5 non-academic criteria measured:
- Community activities (contact with general public important)
- Scholastic activities (mention any academic achievements)
- General activities/interests
- Paid/voluntary work
- Work shadowing/observation
Each of these are given a weighting: desirable, very desirable or compulsory (although admissions officer did not state weighting for each of these)
GPEP Medicine
- Selection for interview is primarily through UKCAT score
Last year (2009) there were 1,600 applicants for 24 places
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