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There are certain requirements which offer holders for Medicine are asked to meet before commencing their studies, as outlined in your offer letter and supporting documents.
To assist you with the process, please have a look at the table below for further details about what is required from you, the all important dates and deadlines and how to submit the completed forms and information.
If your offer is for deferred entry, you will need to send the completed documents and undergo the necessary checks in 2025 rather than in 2024.
| Date | What is required / Information | How to submit / What to do |
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| Friday, 29 March 2024 | Occupational Health Forms for Prospective Medical Students: Complete and return the Medical Student Health Assessment Questionnaire plus the Immunisation Record Form for Medical Students directly to Occupational Health Service to reach them by the deadline of Friday, 29 March 2024. The forms were attached to the email sent to you with your offer letter. They are also available under 'Downloads' on this page. If you have any questions about your Health Forms, please direct them to Occupational Health. | By post or via email to: Occupational Health
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| Spring 2024 | Applicants for Pre-Clinical Medicine Courses for Entry to the course from Michaelmas 2024: Undergraduate students on the medicine course will follow a programme that, if successfully completed, will lead them to an automatic right to practise medicine. Pre-clinical medicine students at the University of Cambridge have contact with patients in the community from the first weeks of the course and are entered on the Medical Students Register from day one. The University and Colleges jointly have a responsibility to ensure that any matters that could bear on a student's suitability or fitness to practise, or to deal with patients and colleagues, are handled properly. Before admission, all medical students are therefore required to undergo, through the DBS, a Disclosure of any criminal record. In early Spring, you will be sent an email by the Student Registry to advise you of:
While waiting to receive this email, please have a look at the following page: Medics | Cambridge students A condition of your offer of a place at the University of Cambridge is subject to receipt of an Enhanced DBS check and subscription to the DBS Update Service. All conditions of your offer should be met by 31 August. The current fee for seeking an Enhanced Disclosure is £55.40, and subscribing to the Update Service is £13 per annum. Applicants that have lived outside of the UK for 6 months or more in the last 5 years will still need to complete a satisfactory enhanced DBS check but will also have to provide relevant overseas checks to cover these periods of time and complete a self-declaration form. Applicants who have not lived in the UK at all in the last 5 years will have to provide relevant overseas checks to cover these periods of time and complete a self-declaration form. If the overseas check is not in English, then the applicant is required to obtain a certified translation. Overseas checks need to be obtained by the applicant; the University will not apply for overseas checks on the Students’ behalf. If you have any further queries concerning your DBS application, there are three main points of contact:
| Please read all the information very carefully and follow the instructions. |
| When you receive your DBS certificate | Once your application has been processed and the check is complete, the DBS will send you a certificate. Please have a look at What happens once I have received my DBS certificate? on the following page for further guidance: DBS FAQs | Cambridge students. All DBS conditions must be met by 31 August 2024.
| Please read all the information very carefully and follow the instructions. |
