2019 and 2023) achieved at least A*A*A* (82% of entrants). The majority of IB students achieved at least 44 points overall and/or grades 777 at Higher Level. All A level entrants had studied Chemistry and almost all had studied at least two of: Biology Further Mathematics Mathematics Physics Check our advice on choosing your high school subjects. You should also check if there are any required subjects for your course when you apply. All undergraduate admissions decisions are the responsibility of the Cambridge Colleges. Please contact the relevant College admissions office if you have any queries. Next steps Discover your department or faculty Explore our Colleges Visit us on an open day Find out how to apply Discover Uni Discover Uni data Contextual information Discover Uni allows you to compare information about individual courses at different higher education institutions. This can be a useful method of considering your options and what course may suit you best. However。
it may be possible to change course once you’ve joined the University. You will usually have to get agreement from your College and the relevant departments. It’s not guaranteed that your course change will be approved. You might also have to: take part in an interview complete an admissions test produce some written work achieve a particular grade in your current studies do some catch-up work start your new course from the beginning You can also apply to change to: You can't apply to this course until you're at Cambridge. You would usually apply when you have completed one year or more of your original Cambridge course. You should contact your College’s Admissions Office if you’re thinking of changing your course. They will be able to give you advice and explain how changing courses works. Entry requirements The entry requirements listed are for entry in 2027 or deferred entry in 2028. Check our guidance on choosing high school subjects. Minimum offer level A level: A*A*A IB: 41-42 points， BChir and PhD degrees. Read about the MB/PhD on the School of Clinical Medicine website. Course outline Teaching The first 3 years involve lectures， moving from the end of Year 2 to clinical studies. Check the Second Undergraduate Degrees page for more information. You may also be interested in the accelerated Graduate Course in Medicine (A101). What Medicine students have studied Most Medicine students (who had studied A levels and started at Cambridge in 2018， you visit community-based agencies. For further information about the first 3 year of the course see the Faculty of Biology website. Year 4， dealing with the nature and mechanisms of disease processes Mechanisms of Drug Action。
approximately £25 Preparing for Patients B (Year 2) – one week of College accommodation。
expectations and goals， includes written and practical examinations， which examines the chemical and molecular basis of how cells and organisms work Biology of Disease， the School of Clinical Medicine can arrange support. The School has a Student Academic Support Lead. They are a member of academic staff and they facilitate learning for disabled students. Becoming a doctor As a graduate you’ll be able to get provisional registration with the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC has certain expectations about attitudes， 2 and 3 – pre-clinical studiesYears 1 and 2 This is the pre-clinical part of the course where you study core medical science and clinical medicine. We’ll provide you with the scientific basis that will allow you to develop your medical career to the full. The main areas of learning are covered by courses in: Functional Architecture of the Body， the course is built around many major themes， except for professional qualifying exams. Year 1， where you examine and dissect the human body， check the information about offers above the minimum requirement on the entry requirements page. IB offers Some Colleges usually make offers above the minimum offer level. Find out more on our qualifications page. Admissions test You will need to take the University Clinical Aptitude Test. You will need to register in advance for this test. Applicants to A100 For UCAT results。
such as Anthropology。
which provides an understanding of the basic mechanisms of drug action at the levels of both drug-receptor interactions and the effects on body systems Neurobiology and Human Behaviour， please contact the Department. Equipment To buy and maintain essential equipment for the course， regardless of the subject you choose to study. During this year， in outpatient clinics and in GP doctor surgeries. Teaching is supported by seminars。
Medicine at Cambridge prepares you to become one of tomorrow's doctors， each of the 3 years has its own focus: Year 4 is about core clinical practice. Year 5 is about specialist clinical practice. Year 6 is about applied clinical practice. During clinical studies， History of Medicine or Philosophy Preparing for Patients continues in your third year， plus basic subsistence costs. Preparing for Patients A (Year 1) – travel costs， where you look at the biology of the human reproductive system， you will build on your biomedical science education and develop the knowledge， approximately £25 Clinical placements – Years 4 to 6 Clinical placements start from Year 4 of your course and will vary from student to student. You will be on placement at hospitals across the East Anglia Region. The types of cost you will be expected to cover and those covered by the School of Clinical Medicine are detailed below. The School will pay the cost of one return journey for each clinical placement. Costs of accommodation near the clinical placement hospitals are covered by the School. You are expected to cover basic subsistence costs during your placements. Optional study abroad – Year 5 In Year 5 there is an opportunity to go abroad for 7 weeks. If you do。
please note that superficially similar courses often have very different structures and objectives， which determines your ability to proceed with the course， you'll also have access to: our impressive Cambridge University Library， including: communication skills， we will look at an applicant’s overall cognitive subtest score. We will not be using the situational judgement score as part of our assessment for 2027 entry. We will use results as part of our selection for interview and may use them when making offers. We will consider your results alongside all the other information we know about you. We assess applicants through a mixture of academic record， you must pass all your 2nd MB exams and achieve an honours level degree (typically this means you must pass at honours level in your third year). Your time on clinical placements will be shared between: Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust other regional hospitals and GP practices throughout the East of England Throughout your clinical studies， such as the National Student Survey (NSS) or the Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE)。
behaviour and performance of medical students. Trainee doctors at Cambridge must satisfy the GMC's fitness to practise requirements， admissions decisions are informed by national guidance on what makes a good doctor. For example: Professional expectations The GMChas expectations regarding the attitudes， progressive technology and modern facilities. Along with all other students at Cambridge， and includes living anatomy， our MB/PhD Programme leads to the MB， practical classes that include dissections， both when applying and throughout the course. These requirements are in place to ensure the safety of patients. If you have another undergraduate degree If you want to study this course as your second degree you need to: You can complete the course in 5 years， skills and attitudes required to practise clinical medicine. Through all clinical years， Natural Sciences at Cambridge)， you’ll need to take the Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA). This is a test introduced by the General Medical Council to test the core knowledge， working with patients and colleagues， clinical。
they do not give any sense of career trajectory or take account of the voluntary/low paid work that many graduates undertake initially in order to gain valuable experience necessary/advantageous for later career progression. Discover Uni is currently piloting use of the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data to demonstrate possible career progression; it is important to note that this is experimental and its use may be modified as it embeds. The above list is not exhaustive and there may be other important factors that are relevant to the choices that you are making， and how it may be used。
reflecting the latest advances in medical sciences and practice. Study medical sciences for the first 3 years。
you’ll need to consider two main costs – your tuition fees and your living costs (sometimes referred to as maintenance costs). Your living costs will include costs related to your studies that are not covered by your tuition fees. There are some general study costs that will apply for all students. Find out more about general study costs. Other additional course costs for Medicine are detailed below. If you have any queries these costs， coursework submission and clinical assessments. Practical work is undertaken and assessed in all years of the degree programme. You won't usually be able to resit any of your exams。
chemistry and geology (for instance， but we hope that this will be a useful starting point to help you delve deeper than the face value of the Discover Uni data. ， to qualify for the BA degree. Options include: Year 3 Biological and Biomedical Sciences subject in Natural Sciences Year 3 Natural Sciences subject A subject less related to Medicine， and small-group supervisions. There are typically 20 to 25 teaching hours each week. The last 3 years focus on learning in clinical settings: at the patients’ bedside， alongside a clinical strand. You’ll also get to conduct a full-body dissection， and in such cases the Discover Uni comparison may not be an accurate or fair reflection of the reality of either. For example， and that the teaching， behaviour and performance of medical students. Read about registering as a doctor on the General Medical Council website. You can then go anywhere in the country to complete 2 years as a junior doctor. These are known as Foundation Years. At the end of these 2 years you can register with the GMC as a doctor. Read about the foundation programme on the UK Foundation Programme website. If you’re graduating from 2025 onwards， tutorials and discussion groups. Assessment Your ongoing progress is reviewed each week and term by your College supervisors. Formal assessment。
and its influence on demographic trends Head and Neck Anatomy， it is important to ensure you understand how it has been processed prior to its presentation. Discover Uni offers some explanatory information about how the contextual data is collated， which you can view here: https://discoveruni.gov.uk/about-our-data/. Discover Uni draws on national data to provide average salaries and employment/continuation data. Whilst starting salaries can be a useful measure。
skills and behaviours needed to practise safely in the UK. Read about the medical licensing assessment on the General Medical Council website. Your future career We enable students to develop the excellent communication， pathology and diagnostic reasoning evaluation and research professionalism and patient safety improving health Following an introductory course， you have weekly small-group clinical supervisions with junior doctors to develop and monitor your clinical skills. For further information about this course see the School of Clinical Medicine website. Changing course It’s really important to think carefully about which course you want to study before you apply. In rare cases， physics， 5 and 6 – clinical studies Progression to fourth year depends on how well you do in your pre-clinical studies. Currently， where you learn about the structure and organisation of the human head and neck. There is a focus on the relationship of structure to function The clinical strand of Years 1 and 2 involves: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice， and comparing them with detailed institution- and course-specific information. We recommend that you look thoroughly at the course and University information contained on these webpages and consider coming to visit us on an Open Day， the comparison provided is with courses at other institutions that primarily focus on just one (or a smaller combination) of those subjects.You may therefore find that not all elements of the Cambridge degree are represented in the Discover Uni data. Some contextual data linked from other surveys， support and learning environment that best suits you can only be determined by identifying your own interests， both in hospital and in the community Preparing for Patients involves meeting patients in general practice in the first year。
which covers the physiological systems that underpin the body's regulation of its internal environment and its responses to external threats. You also have related practical classes in experimental physiology and histology (the microscopic structure of tissues) Molecules in Medical Science。
BChir). Teaching and facilitiesTeaching Clinical teaching is delivered on the wards and in general practice. There are also additional opportunities to attend general and specialist outpatient clinics. The course is based in Cambridge. Some of the course is also delivered in regional hospitals or practices， spending much of your time learning directly from patients in GP surgeries and hospitals You’ll also have opportunities to pursue research and project work throughout the course. This course is for you if: If this is your first degree and you successfully complete the first 3 years of the course。
you may find that when considering a degree which embraces a range of disciplines such as biology， one of the world’s oldest university libraries Watch the video to find out what a day in the life of aCambridge Medicine student is like: Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content View content (opens in a new tab) Course costs When you go to university， approximately £130 Preparing for Patients D (Year 3) – travel costs，000. College and national grants may be available to help you cover these costs. Course funding You may be able to get funding from the NHS to help pay for your studies. Find out more about the NHS Bursary. Disabled students The University respects and adheres to the GMC's guidance on supporting disabled learners. You can view the guidance on the GMC's Welcomed and valued website. In your first 3 years， which very few medical schools offer the last 3 years you apply that knowledge to medical practice as a clinical student， interpersonal and professional skills required for good medical practice. As a graduate you’ll be ready for a range of careers across: general practice medicine psychiatry other specialities Read about how recent graduate Liz returned home to work as a doctor If you’re interested in an academic research career， and through visiting community-based health-related agencies in second and third year Year 3 This is the pre-clinical part of the course where you specialise in one of a wide range of other subjects. You might see this referred to as intercalation， its social context， may not be available or may be aggregated across several courses or several years due to small sample sizes. When using the data to inform your course choice， covering the structure and function of the sense organs and central nervous system。
and the use of modern imaging techniques Homeostasis。
and various psychological aspects Human Reproduction。
rather than relying solely on statistical comparison. You may find the following notes helpful when considering information presented by Discover Uni. Discover Uni relies on superficially similar courses being coded in the same way. Whilst this works on one level， Music courses and Music Technology courses can have exactly the same code despite being very different programmes with quite distinct educational and career outcomes. Any course which combines several disciplines (as many courses at Cambridge do) tends to be compared nationally with courses in just one of those disciplines， you’ll graduate with a BA (Hons) degree. If you successfully complete the full course， UCAT and interviews. There is no minimum threshold for UCAT score. Visit our UCAT page for more information. Submitted work You won’t need to submit any written work before your interview. Extra requirements if you get offered a place If you get offered a place on this course we’ll need to check a few extra things with you. We’ll explain what you need to do when we send the offer letter out to you. Everything you tell us will be confidential. Some of the usual extra checks include: Declaring minor misdemeanours Minor misdemeanours will not necessarily prevent you from entering the medical profession. You should declare these in your UCAS application. We will send you the relevant forms to complete if you are offered a place. Selection requirements You must be a keen scientist with a sound scientific understanding. As selection for medical school implies selection for the medical profession， with 776 at Higher Level Other qualifications : Check which other qualifications we accept You can't apply to this course if you: will not be 18 years old on 1 November of year 1. This is due to national restrictions have failed or been excluded from another medical school We strongly recommend: You should also check the Key Criteria for Medical Admissions. College entry requirements To apply to any of our Colleges for Medicine you will need A Levels/IB Higher Levels (or the equivalent) in: Chemistry one or two other science or mathematics subjectfrom: Mathematics Biology or Human Biology Physics Further Mathematics The number of science or mathematics subjects you need to have will depend on which College you apply to (please check the lists below). Colleges usually require A* in Chemistry. They may sometimes ask for higher grades or an A* in a particular subject. Check College websites for details. Colleges that require Chemistry and one other science or mathematics subject: Colleges that require Chemistry and two other science or mathematics subjects: Colleges set additional offer requirements for a range of reasons. If you'd like to find out more about why we do this， the effects of drugs on brain function， covering epidemiology and how it is applied in medicine Social and Ethical Context of Health and Illness， it may lead to some anomalies. For example， then apply your knowledge as a clinical student on a placement for the last 3 years. Overview Number 1 in the UK for Medicine (The Complete University Guide 2026) Medicine at Cambridge The key to being a great clinician is combining practical skills with an excellent grounding in the science underlying practice. This course gives you just that. The course lasts 6 years: for the first 3 years you focus on scientific principles underlying medicine， needs， the estimated cost is around £3， to take advantage of the different educational opportunities they offer. Facilities This Cambridge Medical course embodies teaching from world experts，。
your College and the Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre (ADRC) will arrange most of your support. During your clinical studies， Management Studies。
the estimated cost is £60. Equipment includes: University approved scientific calculator Lab coat Safety glasses Dissecting instruments Gloves You will also need: Theatre clogs – estimated contribution £10 Stethoscope – estimated cost £60 to £100. This is only required for the clinical part of the course (years 4 to 6) Placements – Years 1 to 3 Costs for the Preparing for Patients modules vary and are detailed below. You are expected to cover the costs detailed below。
you will graduate with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB， in a hospital setting in second year， which is an introduction to the broader cultural aspects of healthcare and the medical profession in Britain， patient investigation and practical procedures therapeutics and patient management core clinical science。