The new Phase 1 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. 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 1c modules

• Clinical Science Integration 3

You will also undertake a module covering:

• Patients, Communities and Healthcare 3
• Phase 1 Medicine
• Phase 1 Surgery
• Medicine in the Community Apprenticeship (MICA)
• Synoptic Clinical Skills and Written Assessment

In Phase 2 you will undertake your BSc. The BSc pathways at Imperial aim to create clinicians and academics with the ability to interpret and inform best practice, and to extend boundaries of current thinking and advance medicine.

The BSc involves a series of modules and a supervised research project in an area of particular scientific/medical interest. This will enable you to develop consistent foundations in research skills, from which you can grow into a competent clinician and clinical researcher. You will select one of the following specialisms:

• 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

Please note, Phase Three of this course is currently being reviewed for 2022 entry. Please check back soon for the latest updates.

In Phase 3, you will build on the knowledge, skills and behaviours developed in the first 4 years of the MBBS. In hospital and community settings, you 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 3, significant emphasis will be placed on preparing you for clinical practice.

During Phase 3b (final year), you will undertake a Pre-Foundation Assistantship (PFA) which focuses on preparing students for their foundation posts (preparedness for practice) in Term 3. This programme is being introduced into the curriculum from the 2021-22 academic year, which will also see an extension to the programme length (8 July 2022). For subsequent years, the end of the programme will be at the end of the first full week in July. For students who enter the final year from 2023-24, the PFA will be at its maximum length of 8 weeks.

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 2022 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 2020 entry:

• Three A-level offer: A*AA

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 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 2022 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 2020 entry was 39 points.

Mathematics Higher Level for award in 2022

For entry in 2022, 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 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 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. Due to COVID pandemic, the September 2021 sitting of BMAT has been cancelled. 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. Read the procedure 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.

For 2021 Entry, Home candidates: Candidates were required to score a minimum of 3.5 in Section 1 and Section 2, with the sum score in these two Sections being at least 10.9. They were required to score a minimum of 2.5C in Section 3.

For 2021 Entry, OS/EU 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 13.3. They were required to score a minimum of 3C in Section 3.

For those students identified as Widening Participation or involved in Imperial Outreach programme, a contextualised adjustment was made to the sum of scores of Section 1 and Section 2. The adjustment reflected the overall difference in performance between flagged and non-flagged candidates.

Candidates are encouraged to take advantage of the preparatory material such as Section guidance, best practice answers and past exam papers. This can be found on the Preparing for BMAT section via Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing.

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.

The School of Medicine invites applicants to interview on the basis of predicted grades and BMAT scores.

Widening participation applicants with predicted grades of AAA (including Chemistry and Biology) at A-level or equivalent will be considered on the basis of an adjusted BMAT threshold score, which takes into consideration how personal and school circumstances may have impacted achievement.

Widening participation applicants who meet the adjusted minimum score will be invited to interview and successful widening participation applicants at interview will receive an adjusted offer of AAA at A-level, or an equivalent level qualification.

Find out more about our admissions schemes

Details of the interview process will be made available later.

For applicants for 2021 entry, we carried out multiple mini interviews, which they uploaded online. You can find out more about the interviews on our . 

For 2022 UCAS applications, the School of Medicine will accept resit qualifications without the need for Mitigation if these have been affected by the pandemic. Further information is noted below.

Autumn Assessment Sitting

If you choose to sit assessments in Autumn, your application will be considered.

• If you had previously firmed a conditional offer from Imperial for 2021 entry, you must still make an application through UCAS for 2022 entry but you will not be required to sit the BMAT or undertake the Interview process again.
• If you have not previously applied to Imperial or did not apply in the 2021 UCAS entry, you will be required to undertake the full admissions process. This includes sitting the BMAT and taking the interview process subject to eligibility.

Summer Assessment Sitting

If you choose to sit assessments in Summer, your application will be considered.

• If you had previously firmed a conditional offer from Imperial for 2021 entry, you must still make an application through UCAS for 2022 entry but you will not be required to sit the BMAT or undertake the Interview process again.
• If you have not previously applied to Imperial or did not apply in the 2021 UCAS entry, you will be required to undertake the full admissions process. This includes sitting the BMAT and taking the interview process subject to eligibility.

If you sit both sitting, the highest award will be considered.

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).

For 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic year, the A300 programme (MBBS Graduate Medicine, direct entry) has been suspended due to the implementation of the new medicine curriculum.

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 enrol on this course.

You will need to undergo a second DBS check before starting the final two years of clinical attachments.

The DBS checking process is designed to ensure candidates are suited to working with vulnerable groups such as children. The School of Medicine covers the cost of your two DBS checks. 

• 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.

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

We want to make sure that the Imperial learning community is as diverse as the society we serve. So to make our admissions process as fair as possible, we have introduced admissions schemes for Home students that allow us to consider your application in the full context of any additional barriers you may face.

Find out if you meet the eligibility criteria for our contextual admissions schemes. 

If your predicted grades meet the minimum College entry standard of AAA (including Chemistry and Biology) at A-level or an equivalent level qualification in the relevant subjects, the School of Medicine will consider you on the basis of an adjusted BMAT threshold score. This takes into consideration how personal and school circumstances may have impacted your achievement. 

If you meet the contextual BMAT threshold, you will be invited to interview. If you are successful at interview, you will receive a contextual offer of AAA at A-level or an equivalent level qualification.

Read more about the contextual admissions scheme in this department and others.

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 .

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 .

View our .

2022 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 .

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 .

2022 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 .

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 .

2022 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 .

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 .

2022 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 .

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 .