A 2.1 Honours degree in any discipline. Health service professional without an honour degree but with an appropriate post-qualification qualification may also be considered.
Graduate applications for the medical degree programme at King’s College medical school are screened to ensure they meet the minimum entry requirements. All applicants are required to have sat the UKCAT exam. UKCAT scores will be considered in the selection process for interview but not on their own and there is no 'cut off' score. UKCAT scores will be considered together with academic performance. Applicants with weaker academic performance may be invited for interview on the basis of strong UKCAT scores which could indicate potential.
In assessing each applicant's personal statement, assessors are looking for evidence of the following personal attributes:
Interviews for graduate applicants are over 2 days in January. A Multi Mini Interview format is used for graduate applicants where they will rotate around a series of 'stations', meeting interviewers who will ask them a set of structured questions. The interviewers do not have a copy of the applicants personal statements and the whole assessment lasts approximately 90 minutes.
Offers are made as soon as possible after the interview, but possibly several weeks afterwards.
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King’s College is one of the largest medical schools in Europe. Located in the heart of London, the medical school’s campuses are co-located next to Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals where most of the clinical teaching takes place. This is supported by over 300 general practices and community services and over a dozen DGHs across London and the South East.
King’s College offers a traditional medical programme, with some of the best research facilities available and world-class teaching. Anatomy teaching is renowned for its excellence and King’s boasts the largest anatomy museum offering dissection and prosection teaching.
Students of King’s College are located right in the heart of London and are able to enjoy everything the such a cosmopolitan, exciting and vibrant City has to offer.
The graduate programme at King’s College is 4 years in duration and consists of the following:
The first phase is based at the Guy's campus and graduate students follow a course which is unique to them, although teaching is sometimes shared with first and second year students on the 5-year medical programme. Students will attend bespoke graduate training sessions to fast-track them through the curriculum which 5-year students normally cover in the first two years and are expected to undertake a significant amount of self-directed learning.
For the final 3 years, students will join the 5-year MBBS programme.
Students will begin this phase with an introductory course in clinical skills to prepare them for what they will encounter when dealing with patients more intensively. Students will then undertake three 13-week rotations focusing on the major specialties relating to diseases of the abdomen, chest and head with an introduction to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. On clinical attachments they will begin to learn the skills of history-taking and performing a clinical examination, diagnostic reasoning, the interpretation of pathological and radiological data and practical procedures such as venepuncture and basic resusitation. Rotations will be based at the partner hospitals and University Hospital Lewisham, the hospitals for the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and DGHs in south east England, as well as placements in one of 300 general practice of community services in London and the south east.
Students will complete 2 SSCs in this phase from a wide range of available topics or from their own subjects of special interest.
Students will cover three 13-week rotations in:
Students will also study public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, therapeutics and laboratory sciences and undertake a Community and Applied Health Promotion study which involves following the progress of a pregnant patient and her family.
Students will complete 3 SSCs in this phase from a wide range of available topics or from their own subjects of special interest.
In this final phase, students begin with an 11-week elective followed by 3 8-weeks clinical placements in medicine, surgery, and general practice & the community. Students will also develop their communication skills and gain an understanding of ethical issues as well as the psychological and socio-economic circumstances of patients and their effects on health. There will also be teaching in public health, epidemiology, pharmacology, therapeutics and lab sciences.
Anatomy is taught throughout the first 3 years of the extended medical degree programme at King’s College, mainly through lectures and also dissection. Students will work in small groups of up to 8 to dissect a cadaver under the supervision of anatomical demonstrators and surgeons. The amount of anatomy teaching varies depending on the system or part of the body being taught at the time.
Year 1 - end of year exams consist of MCQs, EMQs and SBAs and a 20 station OSCE Years 2 & 4 – end of year exams consist of MCQs, SBAs, EMQs. In the final year there are no MCQs. Year 3 – there is an exam at the end of each clinical rotation
Teaching takes place maily on Guy's campus and consist predominantly of lectures , small group tutorials, practical sessions, histology/microscopy sessions, dissection sessions and GP and hospital attachments.
The information on this page is correct as of August 2010
