Medicine
- UCAS Code: A100
- Campus Code: 4
- Duration: 6 years
- Places per year: 8-9
Success in medicine requires application and hard work, both while studying and when in practice. However, it brings great rewards in terms of job satisfaction, involving, as it does, a combination of science with human interactions and numerous career opportunities.
In choosing to study medicine you are embarking on a course that will prepare you to enter the medical profession with a strong foundation in clinical medicine, and the biomedical and social science that underpins it.
For an overview of the course content, visit the Medicine course page on the University website. For information about applying for the course at Trinity Hall, continue reading this page!
Medicine
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Medicine: What's It Like?
If you’re interested in what one of our current students has to say about their experience of studying Medicine, why not watch this episode of our podcast series, ‘Cambridge from the Inside‘?
Entry Requirements
Minimum Offer Level
A-Level: A*A*A
IB Diploma: 42 points, with 776 at Higher Level
Other: See the University’s Entry Requirements page
Subject Requirements
You will need A Level/IB Higher Level or the equivalent in:
- Chemistry
- At least one other subject from:
- Mathematics
- Biology or Human Biology
- Physics
- Further Mathematics
We will normally require A*/7 in Chemistry.
Other Requirements
You can’t apply to this course if you:
- will not be 18 years old at the start of November of year 1, due to national restrictions
- have failed or been excluded from another medical school
Admissions Process
Written Work
None required.
Admissions Assessment
All Standard Course (A100) applicants are required to take the University Clinical Aptitude Test. You will need to register in advance for this test.
Visit the University’s UCAT page for more information.
Interviews
If you are invited to an interview at Trinity Hall, you will receive two interviews of about 25 minutes in length. In each interview you will be interviewed by two experts in medical science and questions will be scientific in nature.
Medicine at Trinity Hall
The eight (on average) medical students we admit each year form a close group within the wider Trinity Hall community, working together and supporting each other in the College. Our Medical Fellows combine teaching, research and clinical work, covering medicine, surgery, and pathology. This breadth ensures that you have continuity, and access to expertise across medical science and clinical medicine, throughout the pre-clinical and clinical course. In the 3rd year students choose a subject to study in more depth, often with additional support from Fellows in Natural Sciences. Students benefit from strong links to Yale University, and in recent years many students have undertaken summer research placements at Yale.
Trinity Hall has a lively Medical and Veterinary Society that arranges academic and social events throughout the year, and fosters interactions across all year groups, and beyond when you graduate as doctors.