The new phase one curriculum will promote critical thinking, personal/professional development, and team working. It involves a spiral curriculum model, with alignment of learning activities and assessment strategies within each of the modules.

The course will start with an introductory module on Principles of Medicine. Students will then engage in an integrated course where teaching on each of the body systems is complemented by case-based learning and early exposure to patient care in a variety of health community settings.

Practical skills will be taught early in the course in clinical skills laboratories. There will be a focus on health and prevention of disease, specifically talking about behaviour change. By the third year, students will spend the majority of their time working in clinical practice, with 10 week attachments in primary care, medicine and surgery.

There will be opportunities to undertake clinical improvement and clinical research projects within phase one.

Phase 1a modules

• Principles of Medicine
• Bioregulatory Systems 1
• Clinical Science Integrative Cases 1
• Patients, Communities and Healthcare 1
• Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention 1

Phase 1b modules

• Bioregulatory Systems 2 
• Clinical Science Integrative Cases 2 
• Patients, Communities and Healthcare 2 
• Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention 2 
• Clinical Research and Innovation
• Phase 1b Clinical Practical Assessment
• I-Explore

Phase 1c modules

• Patients, Communities and Healthcare 3
• Phase 1 Medicine 
• Phase 1 Surgery 
• Medicine in the Community Apprenticeship
• Clinical Science Integration Cases 3
• Synoptic Clinical Skills and Written Assessment

You will spend this year working towards the BSc by undertaking a series of modules and a supervised research project in an area of particular scientific/medical interest.

BSc courses/ title of award

'BSc Medical Sciences with' one of the following:

• Anaesthesia and Critical Care
• Biomedical Engineering
• Cancer Frontiers
• Cardiovascular Sciences
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Global Health
• Molecular and Translational Haematology
• Humanities, Philosophy and Law
• Immunity and Infection
• Management
• Neuroscience and Mental Health
• Pharmacology
• Remote Medicine
• Reproductive and Developmental Sciences
• Surgical Design, Technology and Innovation
• Translational Respiratory Medicine

In phase three, students will build on the knowledge, skills and behaviours developed in the first 4 years of the MBBS.

In hospital and community settings, students will experience how clinical teams work together to deliver patient care from beginning to the end of life.

You will gain experience in medicine, surgery and cancer, managing the ageing patient, child health, women’s health and psychiatry as well as in acute medicine and general practice.

There will be opportunities for you to focus on your own interests in specialty choice placements and in a medical elective. Towards the end of the course, you will spend time in an apprenticeship role. Throughout phase three, significant emphasis will be placed on preparing students for clinical practice.

Phase 3a modules

• Child Health 
• Women’s Health 
• Psychiatry 
• The Ageing Patient 
• Surgery and Cancer 
• Medicine 
• General Practice and Primary Healthcare 
• Specialty Choice Module 1 
• Clinical Reasoning

Phase 3b modules

• Acute Care 
• General Practice Student Assistantship 
• Specialty Choice Module 2 
• Student Apprenticeship 
• Elective

Minimum entry standards

Our minimum entry standard for 2021 entry is AAA overall, to include:

• A in Biology
• A in Chemistry
• A in a third subject

General Studies and Critical Thinking are not accepted.

Typical offer range

As a guide, here are the typical offers made to at least 80% of A-level applicants for 2019 entry:

• Three A-level offer: A*AA (including an A* in either Biology or Chemistry).

Practical endorsement (practical science assessment)

If you are made an offer you will be required to achieve a pass in the practical endorsement in all science subjects that form part of the offer.

Additional Mathematics support

Our new A-level Mathematics online course covers a range of key topic areas to help you gain a deeper understanding of the skills and techniques required to succeed in your A-level Mathematics exams.

This optional course has been built around the A-level syllabus with the aim of developing your thinking skills, fluency and confidence.

Please note: this course is not compulsory and does not form part of the entry requirements for this course. It is available free of charge via the EdX website. It is self-paced so you can start it at any time.

Minimum entry standards

Our minimum entry standard for 2021 entry is 38 points overall, to include:

• 6 in Biology at higher level
• 6 in Chemistry at higher level

Typical offer range

As a guide, the typical offer made to at least 80% of IB applicants for 2019 entry was 39 points (grade 7 and 6 in Biology and Chemistry at higher level – grades in any order).

Mathematics Higher Level for award in 2021

For entry in 2021, the Mathematics Analysis and Approaches or the Applications and Interpretation syllabi will be accepted at higher level with no preference.

Additional Mathematics support

We have recently launched an A-level Mathematics online course, which is available free of charge via the EdX website.

Although this optional course has been built around the A-level syllabus, it is relevant to your curriculum too.

Please note: this course is not compulsory and does not form part of the entry requirements for this course. It is self-paced so you can start it at any time.

Our minimum requirement for this course is grades 5, 5, 5 to include:

• 5 in Biology
• 5 in Chemistry
• 5 in a Mathematics or Science subject

Additional Mathematics support

We have recently launched an A-level Mathematics online course, which is available free of charge via the EdX website.

Although this optional course has been built around the A-level syllabus, it is relevant to your curriculum too.

Please note: this course is not compulsory and does not form part of the entry requirements for this course. It is self-paced so you can start it at any time.

All candidates applying to this course must take the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT) in the year of application in order to be considered for interview.

You are required to register with BMAT assessment centres prior to the test. Please refer to Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing for key dates and additional information.

Candidates who would like extenuating circumstances considered for their performance in BMAT must adhere to the procedure found here.

Invitations to an interview will be based on:

• the content of your UCAS application
• your performance in all three sections of BMAT

BMAT cut-off scores are calculated each year, as a result of ranked candidate BMAT scores versus number of expected interview sessions. As a result, the absolute BMAT cut-off changes each year. However, the BMAT cut-off scores from previous admissions cycles may be used as a guide.

In 2019, the minimum requirements for interview included a minimum score in each of the BMAT sections 1, 2 and 3 and a minimum sum of scores across sections 1 and 2.

For Home/EU candidates: Candidates were required to score a minimum of 3.5 in Section 1 and Section 2, with the sum of scores in these two Sections being at least 8.6. They were required to score a minimum of 2.5C in Section 3.

For OS candidates: Candidates were required to score a minimum of 4.0 in Section 1 and Section 2, with the sum of scores in these two Sections being at least 10.0 They were required to score a minimum of 3C in Section 3.

A contextualised adjustment was made to the sum of scores of Section 1 and Section 2 for candidates identified with the College’s widening participation flag. The adjustment reflected the overall difference in performance between flagged and non-flagged candidates.

Applicable to 2021 Entry and those applying within the 2021 Entry for 2022 deferral

The Cambridge Admissions Testing has made the decision to cancel the BMAT September session. The later November session will continue as planned on 4 November.

Please review the BMAT web page for more information

Please note that this change will have no impact on your application as all test results will now be captured in the November session.

Assessing your application

Admission to medicine at Imperial is highly competitive. We receive well over 2,400 applications for entry and interview about 850 candidates. We make approximately 600 offers.

We use a range of criteria to assess candidates. Candidates must meet the minimum academic requirements outlined in the section on entrance requirements and have high marks for the three sections of BMAT. No offers are made without applicants attending a competitive interview.

Candidates must:

• have obtained or be predicted to obtain grades in A-levels, International or European Baccalaureate, or other acceptable qualifications that satisfy the School of Medicine’s academic criteria (see Entry requirements section, above)
• sit the BMAT examination
• apply by the deadline

If a candidate fulfils the minimum entry requirements and has scores in the top rankings for all three sections of the BMAT, the candidate's application form will be considered at the next stage of the selection process.

Selection panel

The selection panel comprises of teachers in undergraduate education with experience in the admissions process, who will decide whether to offer the candidate an interview. These decisions are ratified by one of the admissions tutors. The following criteria may be considered when assessing applications:

• A-level or equivalent predicted (or achieved) grades
• BMAT scores
• Evidence of commitment to the values of the NHS Constitution
• Motivation and understanding of medicine as a career
• Community activities
• Leadership and teamwork
• Extracurricular interests
• Referee’s report

Pilot admissions schemes (Home students)

From 2020 entry, we will be using information about our applicants in a number of new pilot admissions schemes, to consider the wider context of Home students from groups underrepresented at the College.

More about pilot admissions schemes

Fitness to Practise policy

All UK Medical schools have a duty to ensure that no member of the public is harmed as a consequence of participating in the training of medical students. The School of Medicine Fitness to Practise policy may be activated in cases where significant concerns have been raised about the behaviour of students, including prior to their admission to the School. For more information, refer to the Fitness to Practise policy.

This year, shortlisted candidates will be asked to upload recorded Multiple Mini Interviews online.

This means that you will not have to travel to the College, but will be able to complete the interview session remotely.

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted to select a preferred interview date.

Find out more about the Multiple Mini Interviews process

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, for 2021 Entry only, resit examinations will be considered without the need to apply for mitigating circumstances

The School of Medicine welcomes applications from school leavers who wish to take a gap year. You must state in your UCAS personal statement how you propose to spend your time. Deferred entry applications from overseas applicants are not normally accepted.

The School of Medicine does not accept students who have previously started at or are already studying at another Medical School.  The School of Medicine does not accept students for transfer from other Imperial courses or from other institutions onto the course, except where students are transferring on to the A300 course (MBBS Graduate Medicine, direct entry).

Mitigating circumstances are unforeseen, unpreventable circumstances that significantly disrupt your academic performance, such as an illness or bereavement. If you feel you have mitigating circumstances that should be taken into consideration when we make decisions about your exam results, please contact us by Friday 13 July, ideally through your school or GP.

You must provide appropriate, supportive and independent evidence, not a letter from a family member or friend. The evidence must explain:

• what the circumstance is
• exactly how it affected you in relation to your studies/assessment
• precisely when it occurred (i.e. identifying which assessments were affected)

It is essential that you apply for mitigating circumstances as soon as you are aware of the problem. Late claims will not be considered without clear supporting evidence of why an application was not made on or before the deadline.

All candidates offered a place must complete a health assessment with the College’s Occupational Health Service. You will be sent a confidential health questionnaire along with your offer. You should complete this and return it to the Occupational Health Service as soon as possible.

The primary aim of the assessment is to learn about any health problems or disabilities you may have which may require special support, so that we can plan for this before you begin your course.

We are also required by the General Medical Council (GMC) to ensure that you are not affected by a condition that would make it impossible for you to acquire the skills necessary to qualify and work safely as a doctor before accepting you onto the course.

You can read the GMC requirements in their booklet Outcomes for Graduates.

The School of Medicine welcomes applications from candidates with disabilities and, wherever possible, seeks to provide any extra support that may be necessary. Most disabilities or health problems, even if substantial, can be accommodated.

If you have a disability or health problem that you think may affect your fitness to practise, or which you think may be difficult to accommodate, then you can contact the College Occupational Health Physician for advice, in confidence, before applying.

Age restriction

You must be 18 years of age by the time you would start this course.

Vaccinations for medical school

If you are offered a place, you will need to be immunised against a range of infections to meet health and safety standards necessary for work with patients. You will be sent details of the vaccination programme along with your offer. As soon as you receive this information you should arrange with your doctor or a health clinic to begin this programme, as it can take eight months to complete.

Blood-borne infections

Chronic viral infections that are carried in the blood can be transmitted during surgery to patients from an infected healthcare worker. When you come to Imperial, in order to comply with NHS requirements, you will be offered blood tests to check that you are not infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C and/or HIV, before you can be cleared for hands-on surgical experience.

If tested positive for these infections, you will be allowed to continue your course but not allowed to assist with or undertake surgery or other ‘exposure-prone’ procedures on patients. It will not prevent you from qualifying or practising as a doctor, except for the restriction on exposure-prone procedures.

You will need to successfully obtain a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate before you can study the course and go out to placements.

The DBS is designed to ensure candidates are suited to working with vulnerable groups including children.

You will need to have completed an enhanced DBS check, and will be notified of the procedures should you receive an offer of a place on the course.

• Faculty of Medicine's Disclosure and Barring Certification policy [pdf]
• Faculty of Medicine's Policy on the recruitment of ex-offenders [pdf]

We accept a small number of overseas students into the Medicine course each year. If you are offering academic qualifications other than those listed above you must supply full details direct to our Admissions Team at medicine.ug.admissions@imperial.ac.uk.

Supplementary information should not be sent to UCAS.

You must be available for our online interview process.

You are required to offer an accepted English Language qualification, please see the English language requirements for undergraduate applicants for a list of acceptable qualifications.

If you have not lived in the UK, you will be required to obtain a Certificate of Good Conduct from your government or police force in place of the DBS certificate.

This applies if you were a Condition Firm applicant from the 2020 Entry cycle and you missed your academic conditions.

This is not applicable if you declined our offer or if Imperial was your insurance option. 

If you did not meet your academic conditions in August 2020, you have the opportunity to sit the examinations in Autumn 2020 or Summer 2021 for the subjects where you were not awarded the grades to meet your academic offer. This will be considered as your first attempt.

You must submit an application through UCAS for 2021 entry by the deadline of 15 October. Unfortunately, without reapplication, we will be unable to consider you.

You will not be required to re-take BMAT or complete the interview process. We will automatically offer you a conditional place for 2021 entry based on your original 2020 offer.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact the School of Medicine Admissions Team on feo-admissions-interviews@imperial.ac.uk

Currently, Medicine courses do not accept UCL UPCSE nor Warwick IFP Science and Engineering applications.

All candidates must demonstrate a minimum level of English language proficiency for admission to the College.

For admission to this course, you must achieve the higher College requirement in the appropriate English language qualification. For details of the minimum grades required to achieve this requirement, please see the English language requirements for undergraduate applicants.

An ATAS certificate is not required for overseas students who apply for this course.

For more information about the Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS), please see the International Student Support website.

View our terms and conditions on visas.

2021 entry

£9,250 per year.

For each subsequent year, you should expect and budget for your tuition fee to increase by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar year in which the academic session starts. For example, the RPIX value in April 2022 will apply to fees for the academic year 2022–2023.

Whether you pay the Home fee depends on your fee status. Your fee status is assessed based on UK Government legislation and includes things like where you live and your nationality or residency status. Find out more about how we assess your fee status.

Government funding

If you're a Home student, you can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan from the UK government to cover the entire cost of tuition for every year of your course.

You can also apply for a means-tested Maintenance Loan to help towards your living costs.

EU/EEA students

The Government has confirmed that EU students who begin a course in the 2020–21 academic year (until the end of July 2021) will be eligible to pay the same fee as Home students and have access to student finance for the duration of their course, as long as they meet certain requirements which are unchanged from previous years. This includes students who begin the course remotely.

Students from the EU, other EEA and/or Switzerland starting a course on or after 1 August 2021 will no longer be eligible for the Home fee rate, and so will be charged the Overseas fee. Please note this does not apply to Irish students or students with Citizens Rights benefitting from Citizens’ Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement respectively.

For regular updates for EU students, please see our Imperial and the EU webpages.

2021 entry

£9,250 per year.

For each subsequent year, you should expect and budget for your tuition fee to increase by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar year in which the academic session starts. For example, the RPIX value in April 2022 will apply to fees for the academic year 2022–2023.

Whether you pay the Home fee depends on your fee status. Your fee status is assessed based on UK Government legislation and includes things like where you live and your nationality or residency status. Find out more about how we assess your fee status.

Government funding

If you're a Home student, you can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan from the UK government to cover the entire cost of tuition for every year of your course.

You can also apply for a means-tested Maintenance Loan to help towards your living costs.

EU/EEA students

The Government has confirmed that EU students who begin a course in the 2020–21 academic year (until the end of July 2021) will be eligible to pay the same fee as Home students and have access to student finance for the duration of their course, as long as they meet certain requirements which are unchanged from previous years. This includes students who begin the course remotely.

Students from the EU, other EEA and/or Switzerland starting a course on or after 1 August 2021 will no longer be eligible for the Home fee rate, and so will be charged the Overseas fee. Please note this does not apply to Irish students or students with Citizens Rights benefitting from Citizens’ Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement respectively.

For regular updates for EU students, please see our Imperial and the EU webpages.

2021 entry

£9,250 per year.

For each subsequent year, you should expect and budget for your tuition fee to increase by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar year in which the academic session starts. For example, the RPIX value in April 2022 will apply to fees for the academic year 2022–2023.

Whether you pay the Home fee depends on your fee status. Your fee status is assessed based on UK Government legislation and includes things like where you live and your nationality or residency status. Find out more about how we assess your fee status.

Government funding

If you're a Home student, you can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan from the UK government to cover the entire cost of tuition for every year of your course.

You can also apply for a means-tested Maintenance Loan to help towards your living costs.

EU/EEA students

The Government has confirmed that EU students who begin a course in the 2020–21 academic year (until the end of July 2021) will be eligible to pay the same fee as Home students and have access to student finance for the duration of their course, as long as they meet certain requirements which are unchanged from previous years. This includes students who begin the course remotely.

Students from the EU, other EEA and/or Switzerland starting a course on or after 1 August 2021 will no longer be eligible for the Home fee rate, and so will be charged the Overseas fee. Please note this does not apply to Irish students or students with Citizens Rights benefitting from Citizens’ Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement respectively.

For regular updates for EU students, please see our Imperial and the EU webpages.

2021 entry

£9,250 per year.

For each subsequent year, you should expect and budget for your tuition fee to increase by an amount in line with inflation. The measure of inflation used will be the Retail Price Index (RPIX) value, taken from April in the calendar year in which the academic session starts. For example, the RPIX value in April 2022 will apply to fees for the academic year 2022–2023.

Whether you pay the Home fee depends on your fee status. Your fee status is assessed based on UK Government legislation and includes things like where you live and your nationality or residency status. Find out more about how we assess your fee status.

Government funding

If you're a Home student, you can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan from the UK government to cover the entire cost of tuition for every year of your course.

You can also apply for a means-tested Maintenance Loan to help towards your living costs.

EU/EEA students

The Government has confirmed that EU students who begin a course in the 2020–21 academic year (until the end of July 2021) will be eligible to pay the same fee as Home students and have access to student finance for the duration of their course, as long as they meet certain requirements which are unchanged from previous years. This includes students who begin the course remotely.

Students from the EU, other EEA and/or Switzerland starting a course on or after 1 August 2021 will no longer be eligible for the Home fee rate, and so will be charged the Overseas fee. Please note this does not apply to Irish students or students with Citizens Rights benefitting from Citizens’ Rights under the EU Withdrawal Agreement, EEA EFTA Separation Agreement or Swiss Citizens’ Rights Agreement respectively.

For regular updates for EU students, please see our Imperial and the EU webpages.