Selection procedure

All applications are screened to meet they meet our academic entry requirements and eligibility criteria. Please see our Medicine entry requirements and Medicine with a Gateway Year entry requirements.

If your application does not meet these criteria, it will be rejected at this stage.

Applications are considered within the context of the applicants to the same programme as you (Medicine or Medicine with a Gateway Year), in the same application cohort as you.

We do not look for a specific score to be achieved, but instead rank you in numerical order and invite the top scoring applicants to interview.

GCSE results (35 points) - Applications will be given an academic score based upon the best six achieved grades at GCSE for Medicine, or best five GCSEs for Medicine with a Gateway Year, or equivalent Year 11 qualifications.

UCAT score (35 points) - We award a number of points based upon your total UCAT decile, up to a maximum of 35 points. We do this once UCAT results are released to universities in November.

UCAT Situational Judgement Test (15 points) - Points are allocated depending on the SJT Band achieved, up to a maximum of 15 points. We do not accept Band 4.

Contextual admissions points (up to 15 points) - We recognise that an applicant's educational and socio-economic background may impact their achievements and potential. We use contextual information alongside your UCAS application so we can build a complete picture of you as an applicant, your characteristics and potential. Due to the availability and comparability of data, the use of contextual information will apply to UK school leaver applicants only. Find out more about contextual admissions and widening participation.

Personal statement - We do not score your personal statement; however, it is an important part of your application to Hull York Medical School as it allows you to talk about your interests, achievements and ambitions.

We carefully examine all the information submitted on the UCAS form when making decisions about candidates who are borderline at the selection for interview or selection for offer stage.

If you are invited for interview, your statement is likely to prove useful preparation for interview questions. It is important that your statement is honest and accurate; we may check the claims that you made on your statement, and discovery of fabricated or exaggerated material may lead to the withdrawal of a future offer of a place.

References - Applications must also include an academic reference. Any application submitted without a completed academic reference will be rejected.

If it has been a while since your last studies, and you have been in a full-time job for more than one year, we will also require a reference from your latest employer who will be asked to comment upon your suitability to study Medicine.

Interview fast track

We offer a fast track to interview to applicants to our A100 Medicine programme who have met all of the essential entry requirements, have achieved a UCAT Decile 4 or above, and also meet one of the following criteria.

There is no fast track to interview available for our A108 Medicine with a Gateway Year programme.

• Care experienced
• Refugee status
• Students from a military background
• Students from a Gypsy, Roma or Traveller background
• Completion of one of the following widening participation programmes within the year of application:
  • Hull York Medical School Year 12 Summer School / Residential
  • York Experience Summer School
  • UKWPMED programmes
    • Birmingham Medical School – Routes to the Professions: Medicine
    • Brighton and Sussex Medical School – BrightMed
    • Keele University School of Medicine – Steps2Medicine
    • University of Leicester – AccessLeicester: Medicine
    • Manchester Medical School – Manchester Access Programme and Preston Widening Access Programme (medicine route)
    • Peninsula Medical School – Peninsula Pathways PLUS
• Completion of one of the following widening participation programmes within two years of application:
  • Hull York Medical School Pathways to Medicine programme
  • University of York Black Access programme
  • University of York Next Step York programme
  • University of York Yorway programme

Hull York Medical School also offers a fast track to interview to applicants who meet the following criteria (in addition to the essential entry requirements and the additional entry qualification requirements) provided they have achieved UCAT Decile 5 or higher in the year of application:

Successful completion of the Realising Opportunities programme within the year of application

• Graduate / Final Year Student from BSc Biomedical Science at University of Hull
• Graduate / Final Year Student from BSc Biomedical Science at University of York

Applicants will be asked to confirm eligibility for interview fast track via an online form sent shortly after the October UCAS application deadline.

Applicants who do not complete this form by the November response deadline will not be considered under the fast track scheme.

Participation on the listed Widening Participation Programmes will be confirmed with the programme providers.

We run Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs), where applicants rotate around a series of short stations.

Please visit our interviews page which explains what happens during our Multiple Mini Interviews (MMIs), as well as helpful tips and experiences from our current Medicine students.

You will be asked about your experience in your interview. We advise applicants to have a range of relevant work experiences in health or social care settings or in areas that provide person facing interactions.

Your experience will help you to demonstrate in your application and interview that you understand, and are committed to, teamwork and the social context of healthcare.

It will help you to develop some of the values, attitudes and behaviours essential to being a doctor.

Please visit our work experience page for more information.