Graduate applicants must attain a minimum 2.2 Honours degree in any subject (does not have to be science-based), or a 3rd class in an undergraduate degree combined with a Masters. They must also meet the minimum GAMSAT score for the current year.
Only nationals of the UK and EU are eligible to apply through the graduate entry.
All applications are assessed on the basis of candidate’s academic performance, their GAMSAT score, evidence of relevant work experience as detailed in the personal statement and satisfactory health and police checks. Graduate applicants should sit GAMSAT in the September before submission of their UCAS application, with results released in early December. At that point, St George's will set the minimum oversall score required for that year of entry and publish it on the website. As well as achieving the minimum overall score, in order to be considered for interview, applicants must achieve a minimum score of:
A poor score in one section cannot be compensated for by good scores in the other sections.
St George’s medical school pays particular importance on relevant recent work experience, which should be anything that has involved working directly with patients or people in need of care preferably over a prolonged period of time. This experience may be paid or voluntary and does not necessarily have to have taken place in a hospital, hands-on experience of shadowing and working in a care home, hospice or community work with disabled adults or children are good examples of relevant work experience. Candidates called for interview will be required to provide formal letters detailing the dates and hours worked and duties carried out.
The interview at St George’s is known as the Multi Mini Interview or MMI. This is a new way of assessing candidates through a series of short interviews and activities, rather than the traditional single long interview. Candidates will rotate through 7 stations and complete 8 tasks, spending 5 minutes at each station. They will be required to undertake a range of different activities from role play with an actor, answering questions, explaining their thought processes behind a task and practical tasks.
In addition to more traditional style questions, here are some examples of task-based scenarios which candidates would be expected to perform at interview:
These scenarios are helping to assess the following competencies:
Interviews take place in the last 3 weeks of January. Offers should be received by mid-February.
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St George’s is well known for some of its accomplished alumni, such as Henry Gray – anatomist and surgeon who published Gray’s Anatomy and Edward Jenner – smallpox vaccine, amongst others. It’s a small University in comparison with most others, giving it more of a family-like atmosphere and community spirit which helps make it quite unique.
The medical school is located in Tooting which is only 30 minutes by tube into central London, making it a very accessible location for the City, without most of the associated high costs of living and accommodation.
St George’s hospital is one of the busiest in the UK and forms the hub of an extensive network of acute hospital trusts, primary care trusts and social services which offers students a wealth of accessible clinical experience.
Teaching in the first year is based around the following six modules which are the same as the 5-year MBBS programme:
Life Control Life Cycle Life Maintenance Life Protection Life Structure Life Support
The SSC in Year 1 are two projects – one in each semester.
Graduate students will integrate with students from the 5-year MBBS programme who will be in their 3rd year. Students will do 6 blocks of five week ‘firms’ of:
Topics covered in Year 4 This is split into three main parts:
Topics covered in Year 5
Students take a 5 week SSC in Year 2 choosing from a wide range of topics including literature reviews, clinical skills teaching, lab research projects and audits. A 5 week SSC in Year 3 is a short elective which can be taken at St George’s or elsewhere.
Exams are taken each semester in the first year – a 3 hour written paper (SBAs, MCQs and SAQs), Observed Structured Practical Examination (OSPE) and OSCE. There are exams at the end of Year 2 and written finals at the end of Year 3, which both include an OSCE. The written papers consist of SBA, EMQs and short answer questions. Clinical finals are a long OSCE which is taken in the February of the Year 4.
Anatomy teaching at St Georges takes place once a week in the first year, in small groups around a prosected cadaver and under the supervision of an antatomist supervisor.
The medical degree programme is taught through a combination of small group tutorials, lectures, practical classes and learning on clinical attachments on the wards, out-patient clinics, operating theatres and in community settings. Students take part in practical clinical sessions, learning clinical skills and examination techniques by practising on other students. They are also expected to spend an equivalent time in independent study. The early part of the programme include Case Base Learning, using a bank of ‘clinical scenarios’ to focus learning on clinical material. The later stages of the course also includes PBL.
Students take their electives in the final year following the final exams. Students may choose where they want to take their elective and there is no restriction on location. The elective period is ten weeks long and six weeks must be spent on placement somewhere in the world. The year is split into 6 groups and each one goes on elective at a different time.
The information on this page is correct as of August 2010
