Mature Medicine

lesserspottedchloe

Hey guys,

Just wondering does anybody know what the requirements are for a mature applicant to study medicine? I will have a degree in an unrelated field and average Leaving Certificate-Would I need to repeat the L.C.? Has anybody here tried this route?

Thanks in advance,
Laylah.

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Hi Laylah,

If you have a degree already you might be eligible for Graduate entry to Medicine. The information below is taken from the CAO website:

Graduate Entry Programmes in Medicine (Eu Applicants)
Those Eu persons interested in applying to a Graduate Entry Programme in Medicine for entry in September
2012 should note the following:

If you have at any time resided, or are at present resident, outside the Eu, then you need to contact the
Admissions Office of the Institutions you wish to apply to as you may be required to apply direct to the HEIs.

(a) Entry Requirements:
• Candidates must hold, or expect to hold by 1 July 2012, a minimum 2H1 (second class honours, grade one, or
equivalent) result in their first honours bachelor degree (NFQ Level 8). CAO CANNOT verify your
eligibility or comment on your documentation. Please contact the Admissions Office of the institution
concerned if you have any questions regarding the eligibility of your qualifications.

• For candidates who meet the above requirement, the GAMSAT (Graduate Medical Schools Admissions Test)
will then be used as the sole instrument to select students for Graduate Medicine programmes.

(b) Application Process:
Application must be made ONLINE before 17:15 p.m. on February 1
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via the CAO at www.cao.ie
Applying on-line ensures that you will receive your 2012 CAO Application Number immediately which is
necessary when applying to sit the 2012 GAMSAT test in Ireland.

• The CAO application closing date for Graduate Medicine courses is 17:15 hours on 1 February 2012.

• Applicants should read Page 4 of the CAO Handbook 2012 in regard to Restricted Application Courses and
the rules and regulations on how to amend/change your course choices.

• Application to sit the 2012 Irish GAMSAT test in Ireland should be made to the Australian Council for
Educational Research (ACER) www.gamsat-ie.org before 17:15 hours on 1 February 2012.

• The Irish GAMSAT test will take place on 24 March 2012 at ACER test centres in Cork, Dublin and Limerick.

• Candidates may sit the GAMSAT test at other test centres worldwide. They must submit (by post) before 1 July
2012 the results of a GAMSAT test already taken, provided the test was not taken before 1 September 2010.

(c) Sending Documents to CAO (Note: CAO does NOT return any documents to applicants.)

• The CAO Address is CAO, Tower House, Eglinton Street, Galway, Ireland. Telephone: 091-509800

• In all cases where an applicant sends supporting documents to CAO, they should enclose a stamped addressed
card/envelope giving details of documents submitted
This card/envelope will be stamped as received by CAO and returned to the applicant.

• Applicants who have completed and been confirmed with their first honours bachelor degree (NFQ Level 8)
must submit proof of their qualification by 15 March 2012. Supporting documentation must include complete
ORIGINAL transcripts (all years), NOT a certified photocopy, printed on the Institutions official headed
paper and an official award showing evidence (a certified photocopy of parchment will suffice) of conferring.
The institutions will meet in April to jointly assess your qualifications and CAO will e-mail applicants with the
Graduate Medicine institutions joint decision concerning your academic eligibility and/or EU status.

• Applicants due to graduate in 2012 must submit proof of their degree by 15 July 2012.
If you are due to graduate in 2012 a FULL ORIGINAL transcript (all years), not a certified photocopy,
printed on the Institutions official headed paper, showing the final degree result will suffice.
The institutions will meet again in July to jointly assess your qualifications and CAO will e-mail applicants with
the Graduate Medicine institutions joint decision concerning your academic eligibility and/or EU status.
Applicants are advised to contact the Registry/Examinations Office of the Institution from which they will be
graduating to request these full transcripts and well in advance of the closing date 15 July 2012.

• All documentation must be submitted in English, or if not, an official certified translation in English must be
provided. If your documentation records a different name, either by marriage or deed poll, then a certified copy
of your marriage certificate or deed poll must also be provided. Academic eligibility queries must be directed
to the Admissions Office of the institution concerned and NOT to CAO.

(d) GAMSAT Results
• CAO will communicate with ACER in order to obtain the 2012 Irish GAMSAT scores for Graduate Medicine
applicants. 2011 and/or Non-Irish GAMSAT results must be forwarded to CAO by post before 1 July 2012.

• When the 2012 Irish GAMSAT results are published, CAO will then e-mail all Graduate Medicine applicants
who applied by 1 February 2012 and ask them to check their results recorded by CAO under ‘My Application’.
You will then have an opportunity to forward your results or a better result to CAO by post at that time.
2012 GAMSAT results may be seen on the CAO website after the release of the 2012 Irish GAMSAT results.
All GAMSAT results must be recorded at CAO by 1 July 2012 for consideration of Offers which will be
allocated in Round 0 (early August 2012).

Abby19

laylah wrote: »

Hey guys,

Just wondering does anybody know what the requirements are for a mature applicant to study medicine? I will have a degree in an unrelated field and average Leaving Certificate-Would I need to repeat the L.C.? Has anybody here tried this route?

Thanks in advance,
Laylah.

There is the Graduate entry route and the Mature entry route. The colleges that accept mature entry are RCSI, Trinity, UCC and UCD. UCG you need to be in a related discipline. You still need to meet matriculation requirements, e.g. set grades in certain subjects and I think the minumum 480pts in the leaving cert applies. You will need to sit the HPAT.

If you don't have the right grades in the right subjects then you will need to sit those subjects. Mature students don't have to meet all the matriculation requirements in a single sitting. You could also sit the entire LC and apply with the HPAT, and get in purely on points as with other school leavers.

Check out the websites for each of the colleges, there is information on them as to their requirements and you could contact the mature student officers in each of the colleges if you have further questions.

There is a fair bit of information on mature entry to medicine in this thread and also in the Sciences-Health Sciences-Health Sciences Education thread. Just scroll through previous questions.

Hope this helps.