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Keele University
Overview
Keele University Medical School offers you medical training on a modern, spiral, highly-integrated medical curriculum, which combines a range of learning strategies including early clinical experience. The course offers great opportunities in both primary and secondary care settings, with inter-professional learning and the opportunity to pursue an additional qualification in a subject that interests you. From this you may even be lucky enough to publish scientific papers and also present at national and international conferences.
Keele University use the Roles and Responsibilities form, and prioritise this to shortlist applicants for interview provided that applicants have met the minimum entry requirements. UCAT or BMAT (for international students only) scores are used to distinguish between borderline applicants. Therefore it is important to score well in the Roles and Responsibilities form, as well as the UCAT in order to secure an interview.
Key Points
- Heavy UCAT Focus
- Early Clinical Focus
- Very Competitive
About the university Compare
| Key Information | |
| Website | https://www.keele.ac.uk/medicine/ |
| [email protected] | |
| Phone number | 01782 733632 /734644 /733642 /734651 |
| Course Information | |
| Teaching style | PBL Problem based learning along with lectures, seminars, clinical skills teaching and also dissection for anatomy teaching. |
| Course length | 5-6 years 5 years - undergraduate course 6 years - undergraduate course with Health Foundation Year |
| BSC | Yes Intercalated degrees are available to students after year 2, where you are able to do a BSc degree, alternatively after year 4, where you are able to do a BSc or MSc. Details of which are available here. |
| Courses offered | 2 courses offered Undergraduate Course and Undergraduate Course with Health Foundation Year. |
| Graduate entry | No But graduates are welcome to apply to the undergraduate programmes offered |
| Foundation or access | Yes 6 - year programme with Health Foundation Year |
| University Life | |
| Local area | Keele Medical School Located in Stoke-on-Trent in the Newcastle -under-Lyme District. |
| Social life | |
| Interview | |
| Interview style | MMI Interview stations There is also a separate test which will assess your ability to perform clinically relevant calculations. This is a pass/fail test and interviewees that do not achieve the pass score or higher will be judged as unsuccessful at interview. This test will include simple Maths as well as simple Data Handling. |
| Interview dates | December - March Interviews take place between late December and March. |
| Interview topics | Topics include: |
| Admissions Tests | |
| UCAT | Home student status only Applicants score in the bottom 20% (decile 8 or below) or SJT in band 4 are automatically rejected. UCAT scores are currently only used in borderline cases. Pre-interview, applicants are ranked with scores from the roles and responsibilities form. Where the number of applicants with the same score exceed the number of interview slots available then the students are ranked based on their UCAT score. The UCAT score is also used in a similar way to distinguish borderline applicants post interview. |
| GAMSAT | International student status only International applicants only - international applicants are shortlisted for interviews based on the BMAT score alone. This is provided that applicants meet the minimum entry requirements. |
| Academic Requirements | |
| GSCE | GCSE’s used only as entry requirement Grades required: 5 GCSEs at grade A/7 Subjects required: English Language, Maths and all sciences achieved at a minimum of grade B/6 |
| A-level | AAA is common Subjects required: Chemistry or Biology plus a third academic subject Grades required: AAA General Studies and critical thinking are excluded. Only one of Maths, Further Maths or Statistics are eligible. |
| Retake policy | Yes Students who are resitting A-levels or who have taken more than 2 years to complete their A-levels must wait to have achieved their grades before applying. |
| Scottish highers | AAAAB Subjects required: Two sciences including Chemistry or Biology (at grades AB) Grades required: AAAAB |
| Scottish advanced | AB Subjects required: two sciences sat in S6 including Chemistry or Biology Grades required: AB |
| IB | HL 6,6,6 Subjects required: Two sciences including Chemistry or Biology Grades required: HL 6,6,6; SL 6,6,5 Points awarded for Extended Essay or Theory of Knowledge are not taken into account but these components must be completed. English language at SL grade 6 is acceptable in lieu of GCSE English Language. |
| BDGA only | 2:1 Honours degree Additional requirements: GCSE Maths, English and Sciences at grade B/6. Plus A-levels or equivalent at BBB minimum (with two sciences to include Biology or Chemistry) If grades not achieved an overall GAMSAT score of 55 or more with a section 3 score of 58 or more supported by a score of 50 or more in all other sections. Alternatively an overall score of 58 or more with sections 3 having a score of 55 or more, supported by a score of 50 or more in all other sections. Note - graduate applicants are also required to sit the UCAT or BMAT as required |
| Statistics | |
| Applications in 18/19 | 1600 approximately Total number of home applicants: 1600 approximately |
| Interviews in 18/19 | 600 approximately Total number of applicants interviewed: 600 approximately |
| Offers in 18/19 | 300 approximately Total number of offers: 300 approximately |
| Success rate in 18/19 | Application success rate: Offers per applicant: 1 in 5.3 Interview success rate: Offers per interview: 1 in 2 |
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